Teamsters have some legal issues to overcome after wins at Amazon and with DSPs

The Teamsters are claiming victory after organizing workers at a second Amazon warehouse, as well as a string of the e-commerce retailer’s direct service providers (DSPs).

But given the complicated nature of labor law today and the fact that the drivers of those vans now sweeping through neighborhoods don’t actually work for Amazon – at least not yet – it’s complicated.

The only successful Amazon-specific location where a union was voted in occurred on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of...

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Industry’s Largest Submersed Permanent Magnet Dredge Pump e-Motor Passes Full Performance Test

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The Marine Aggregate Dredger CEMEX Go Innovation, currently under construction for CEMEX Marine UK, is fitted out with a submersed dredge pump. This dredge pump is directly driven by an electric motor – and not an arbitrary one. As a first, the dredge pump drive is a permanent magnet 1,400 kW unit, that last week it underwent a large array of tests – passing them all effortlessly.

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Submersed dredge pump drive

The hopper dredger is designed for mining marine aggregates at...

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Damen Holds Keel-laying Ceremony For The First Next Generation Marine Aggregate Dredging

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Damen Shipyards Group recently held a keel-laying ceremony for the CEMEX Go Innovation at Damen Shipyards Mangalia in Romania. The vessel is the first Damen MAD – the next generation of marine aggregate dredgers. The construction of the new vessel is drawing upon collaboration with multiple companies within the Damen Group, as well was with external partners, working together towards the development of a new standard in marine aggregate dredging.

Damen has designed the future-proof vessel for...

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