NEW YORK's crime-fighting Waterfront Commission is holding public hearings next month to determine whether enough women and non-whites are being hired as dockers.
The commission resolution authorising the public hearings said they are being held "to determine the appropriate manner for the recruitment, referral, selection, hiring and training" of dockworkers.
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and New York Shipping Association (NYSA) are expected to testify at hearings on November 14, 18 and 25 at the commission's Manhattan headquarters.
The commission has been jousting with the ILA and NYSA for more than two years over procedures for hiring dockworkers at the port with commission officials pointing out that job candidates referred by the industry are overwhelmingly white and male.
The NYSA and ILA, in a rare instance of agreement, say hiring practices are fair and that the workforce roughly reflects the New York metropolitan population.
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27 October 2013 - 19:50
New York Waterfront Commission probes charges of white male hiring
NEW YORK's crime-fighting Waterfront Commission is holding public hearings next month to determine whether enough women and non-whites are being hired as dockers.
PORTS
27 October 2013 - 19:50
New York Waterfront Commission probes charges of white male hiring
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