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STRIKE & PROTEST * USA - Philadelphia ILA Shuts Down NY-NJ Terminals
Lonshoremen protest pending Del Monte move to non-union facility
Philadelphia,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Peter T. Leach -Sep 28, 2010: -- Picket lines by longshoremen from Philadelphia caused work stoppages at all six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday, when terminal workers who are members of the International Longshoremen's Association refused to cross the Philadelphia ILA picket lines despite a finding by an arbitrator against the pickets that was issued on Monday... The Philadelphia longshoreman were picketing the terminals to protest the pending move by Del Monte Fresh Produce of 75 ship calls a year from an ILA terminal in Camden, N.J. to a non-ILA facility in Gloucester, N.J. that is owned by the Holt family. The ILA claims the move by Del Monte will cost the union 200 jobs. The Philadelphia ILA members shut down work at the New York Container Terminal on Staten Island, APM Terminals and Maher Terminal in Port Elizabeth, N.J., the Port Newark Container Terminal, Global Marine Terminal in Bayonne, N.J., and the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn... The work stoppages prevented cargo from moving in and out of the six terminals, where 12 ships were being loaded or unloaded...* ILA Ends NY-NJ Work Stoppage. Negotiations to start Monday after protest of shipper’s move to non-ILA terminal
NJ/NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Peter T. Leach -Sep 29, 2010: -- The two-day work stoppage at the six container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey ended early Wednesday afternoon when the Philadelphia ILA local whose picket lines had caused the shutdown of the terminals called off the picketing... One of the dockworkers on the picket line outside the gates of the APM Terminal in Port Elizabeth, N.J., said Philadelphia ILA Local 12391 had called off the picketing and would start negotiations on Monday, but he did not specify what those negotiations would involve... U.S. District Judge, Dickinson Debevoise, ordered New York and New Jersey ILA members to observe a ruling by an arbitrator on Monday and return to work. The New York Shipping Association said its attorneys would be returning to U.S. District Court on Wednesday to seek enforcement of the court’s order...Labels: strikes and protests
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