Union officials call grain exporters back to negotiation table after workers in four Pacific Northwest ports vote by a 93.8% margin to reject the exporters’ demanded concessions to an 80-year-old contract Members of the...
Read MoreExcerpts from the Oregonian: Negotiators for the big agribusiness ventures that own the terminals have taken pains to prove the talks have reached impasse, meaning they could lock out longshoremen and invite them back only on...
Read MoreIn an article called ‘Northwest grain terminal lockout would pit longshoremen against strikebreakers they call scabs,’ the Oregonian writes: Scores of out-of-state strikebreakers wait on high alert in Northwest hotel...
Read MoreFrom the Journal of Commerce: Pacific Northwest grain companies, in their final contract offer to longshoremen, are demanding “750 changes to a contract that’s made the industry successful for the past 80 years,” the...
Read MoreWork halted briefly this morning at Charleston’s Wando Welch Shipping Terminal as a group of protesters attempted to call attention to plight of international factory workers. Roughly 50 protesters demonstrated on Long...
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