Longshoremen in New Jersey this morning. Click on the photo to read the Star-Ledger article.
A protest by the International Longshoremen’s Association over a union dispute in Southern New Jersey has shut down operations at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal container complex, angering shipping companies and truckers left idle by the action.
The protest has also halted operations at Global Terminal in Bayonne, as well as the Howland Hook container terminal in Staten Island. The Packer Street Marine Terminal in Philadelphia has also been closed.
Ed Reiman, 35, of Philadelphia, manned a picket line at the entrance to the Maher container terminal on Corbin Street. Reiman said he is among more than 200 union longshoremen who will lose their jobs as a result of Del Monte’s decision to shift its cargo from its long-time port in Camden to the nearby Gloucester Terminals LLC, which will use non-union dock workers to do the work. Gloucester Terminals is run by the Holt family, and some picketing ILA members wore signs reading “Holt Starves My Family.”