A long-simmering labor dispute between a local longshoremen’s union and a Port of Toledo stevedore has led to three ocean freighters being waylaid at the Port of Toledo and a fourth boat being turned away — potentially costing the terminal tens of thousands of dollars a day in lost work. Local 1982 of the International […]
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Two of three ships delayed at the Port of Toledo by a labor dispute left the dock Wednesday after the U.S. Coast Guard approved a plan to use tugboats to pull the ships into open water, rather than relying on harbor pilots whose refusal to cross a Longshoremen picket line had led to the bottleneck.
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When the Malta-flagged bulk freighter Belasitza ventured up the Maumee River last month to load grain at one of The Andersons’ elevators, it marked the first time Todorov Mihaylov, the ship’s Bulgarian captain, had ever been to Toledo. While Captain Mihaylov was on the bridge for nearly all of the river transit, however, he was
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (August 21, 2018) Jack Pennington, the president of ILA Local 28 in Houston, Texas lost his nephew, Cody Carter is a tragic accident on the docks. Brother Cody Carter was also a member of ILA Local 28 and leaves behind his wife, Melissa Carter and nine children. President Pennington has established a
ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, (CANADA) – (August 8, 2018) Canadian ILA members join with International and Atlantic Coast District officers at the inaugural meeting of the ILA’s Canadian Joint Council, representing all ILA Locals in Canada. ILA’s General Organizer John D. Baker (third from left) and ILA’s Assistant General Organizer James Paylor (sixth from left) represented
