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Filipino company ICTSI sought to undermine the collective bargaining agreement and multi-employer system that has benefited the industry and economy for decades

”ICTSI’s attack on the decades old collective bargaining relationship between the ILWU and its own employer association, PMA, demonstrates ICTSI’s arrogance and complete disregard for the rules of engagement here in the United States, but we have come to learn the hard way that this company will do whatever it takes to operate with the type of control and lawlessness that it operates in other parts of the world,” said ­­­Leal Sundet, Coast Committeeman. ”U.S. antitrust law simply does not go where ICTSI wanted it to go here, and the court made that clear.”SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 1, 2014) – A federal judge overseeing several cases in the labor dispute at Portland’s Terminal 6 has thrown out two lawsuits brought by Filipino company International Container Terminal Services, Inc. and the Port of Portland.
On March 24, 2014, Federal District Court Judge Michael Simon dismissed ICTSI’s antitrust claim against the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association. ICTSI’s antitrust claim constituted an unprecedented...