The union that handles every shipping container that crosses West Coast docks is bracing for bankruptcy. It's a rare prospect for a bargaining group, and it's rattling organized labor across the U.S. RichReadReports explains:
Robots are coming to the massive ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, replacing dockworker jobs. But truckers are delighted, since they’ll be able to move cargo faster, earning more money.
In Portland in 2012, Simon wrote in his jury instructions, union members drove trucks slowly, parked vehicles to block containers and reported bogus mechanical problems. But this time, instead of dealing with the coastal employers’ group, the ILWU was up against a subsidiary of Manila-based International Container Services Inc., a global port operations giant aiming to establish a U.S. beachhead.
ICTSI said it could not reassign the jobs because the port controlled them. During four years of slowdowns, international shipping lines stopped calling on the terminal. ICTSI paid the port $20 million to get out of its lease and sued the union, listing that amount and other losses as damages.
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