After a three-hour hearing Friday in Portland, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon declined to resolve an inter-union dispute over the equivalent of two jobs that has crippled the Port of Portland’s only container terminal for three weeks.
Simon appointed former Oregon Governor and Oregon Supreme Court Justice Ted Kulongoski as special master for settlement purposes in the hope he could resolve the 3-week-old dispute that has crippled container operations at the port.
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