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ILWU: Don’t blame labor for ports’ market share drop

California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently has received two written pleas to take action to prevent the state’s port industry from losing more market share. While the writers agree something must be done to stop the flow of business to ports on the East and Gulf coasts, they do not entirely agree on the causes of the loss. 

Fifty-two organizations led by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA) sent a letter to Newsom on Monday that said, in part, that importers began taking their business...

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Career Tracks: Fifth-generation dockworker appointed to harbor board

Fifth-generation dockworker and union leader Bobby Olvera Jr. participated in his first meeting last week as a member of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners.

Olvera, appointed to the board in May by Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia, also serves as international vice president (mainland) of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). 

The Long Beach City Council unanimously confirmed Olvera to complete the term of Lou Anne Bynum that expires in June 2021. Bynum resigned from the...

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Trade war, pandemic take bite out of french fry orders

The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA) ports of Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, exported 67,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) — $800 million worth — of frozen french fries in 2019.

The trade war with China and the coronavirus pandemic have taken a bite out of those exports.

“We usually grow about 165,000 acres of potatoes in Washington state. That will net close to 10 billion pounds of potatoes,” said Matt Harris, director of government affairs and assistant executive director of the...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/trade-war-pandemic-take-bite-out-of-french-fry-orders

Longshore unions across nation pay tribute to George Floyd

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) from Maine to Texas conducted a “peaceful protest hour” on Tuesday in honor of George Floyd.

And on the West Coast, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) dockworkers paused for nine minutes, symbolizing the nearly nine minutes a Minneapolis officer had a knee on Floyd’s neck.

Floyd, the man who became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement after his May 25 death, was laid to rest in...

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Judge reduces ILWU award to ICTSI over Portland slowdowns

A judge has overruled a jury’s $93.6m award to ICTSI from the ILWU, over work slowdowns at Portland. The award was reduced to $19m – “the maximum amount sustainable by the proof”. The judge said that an expert witness for ICTSI had “grossly inflated” the economic harm caused, by inflating ICTSI’s baseline shipping volume, and assuming that ICTSI would have been able to raise prices per container and increase shipping volume, …

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Jury shocker: 93 million reasons why the ILWU may soon cease to exist

This story first reared its head in the first days of The Loadstar. Remember when, in 2012, the ILWU and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) were arguing about whose job it was to plug and unplug reefer containers at Terminal 6 in Portland, Oregon? Well, it resulted in IILWU slowdowns, which affected the port. Now a jury has backed port operator ICTSI’s claims that the union’s campaign led to the …

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As automation advances, transport workers must be helped to develop new skills

Governments and industry must ensure access to the skills of the future as automation and artificial intelligence reshapes the transport sector, urges a new report.
More than 168 million people work in transport worldwide, with 87% making up the low- (15%) and medium- (72%) skilled workforce.
Jens-Uwe Schroder-Hinrichs, of the World Maritime University (WMU), said it would be these workers most affected by change.
However, he added: “The pace of introduction of these …

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