THE Port of Portland, Oregon, said it will terminate the contract of the company that employs members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to monitor, plug-in, and unplug reefer containers.
The Port of Portland authority said it decided end the arrangement because of poor general productivity from the whole ILWU workforce at Terminal 6 (T6) container wharf.
In a letter to the union, Port of Portland executive director Bill Wyatt said the work would be returned to members of the rival International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), reported American Shipper.
Mr Wyatt reminded the union that part of the deal worked out with Oregon State Governor John Kitzhaber, was that the reefer jobs would be given to the ILWU if there were improvements in overall terminal productivity.
Instead, "container productivity at T6 has declined since the work was temporarily assigned", he said.
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27 August 2014 - 20:15
Portland takes reefer jobs from ILWU, to give them to rival IBEW
THE Port of Portland, Oregon, said it will terminate the contract of the company that employs members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) to monitor, plug-in, and unplug reefer containers.
PORTS
27 August 2014 - 20:15
Portland takes reefer jobs from ILWU, to give them to rival IBEW
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