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From Oregon Public Broadcasting:
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union disputes there’s a slowdown. And committeeman Leal Sundet is not hopeful about negotiations, “I don’t see Hanjin staying in Portland in the short-run,” he said.
“They may come back, they’ve been to Portland before and they’ve left and come back. It’s easy for carriers to come and go and they’ve always done that in Portland and they always will.”
The relationship between management and labor has been rocky since Philippines-based International Container Terminal Service took control of Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland in 2011.