Port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Randy Baker, vice president of the ILWU’s Alaska Longshore Division, said this isn’t the first time he’s fought the battle for more work for longshoremen, but he’s hoping this time to win.
Mark Horne is a man on a mission. Or two. He wants to eliminate the use of foreign crewmembers loading and unloading material from vessels in Alaska – work that is guaranteed to American workers by the federal government. And he wants to see longshoremen get more work. If his new company, Sundance Stevedoring LLC succeeds, that’s a bonus, Horne said.
Sundance Stevedoring LLC’s main goal, Horne said, is to end the practice of stevedore companies turning down work – work longshoremen would gladly take but companies turn down because they don’t make enough profit from them.
Horne has a contract with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Unalaska. … Randy Baker, vice president with the ILWU, said this isn’t the first time he’s fought the battle for more work for longshoremen, but he’s hoping this time to win.
“The biggest thing is these are American waters and American fish and it’s an American resource,” Baker said. “All of the communities throughout Alaska have been robbed of possible jobs while out-of-state people have become multimillionaires if not billionaires without sharing it with the people who live in these communities.”