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Description: The union cannot "threaten, restrain or coerce" shipping lines "to cease doing business with the South Carolina State Ports Authority, the State of South Carolina or any other person," the judge said in his order.
Can’t believe The Post and Courier. I subscribe, but something’s going on that’s blocking me from reading it. It has a faded link labeled “already subscribe?” Well, yeah, I do. But that link won’t work. It’s dead. I posted in the subscribers’ group on Facebook letting them know of my frustration. No word yet.
Did the article mention whether the Longshoreman's group intends to appeal and drag it out more?
Unclear as of yet,
Gollin said the contract was intended to preserve work for the union, not to acquire additional jobs that weren’t previously held by union members. He also called the ILA’s threat to sue shipping lines that call on Leatherman an illegal secondary boycott because the authority is not a party to the union’s contract with ocean carriers.
So far as i can tell the Port of Charleston seems to be clear of the issue since it's simply a matter of an already present agreement with regards to cranes being expanded to a new port (That is to say the Port of Charleston is getting grand-fathered into not having to deal with the agreemnent)
I got my subscription issue fixed. The article isn’t in the hard copy of the paper this morning.
Anyway, if the ILA appeals, I hope the case will go through quickly. To me, since the SPA’s permit to build the new terminal predated the ILA’s maneuver to secure work at all new facilities, their suit should have been tossed.
The sooner it’s all resolved, the sooner Charleston can play a new, much bigger ballgame with the game-changing new terminal.
That's sad. Local newspapers are usually the source of 'breaking' stories and need local support to be able to operate.
Plus, as newspapers go, we are lucky, and The P&C is local. No news source is perfect. I’m left of center, but not radical, and I disagree with some of the editorials on some points. The “liberal rag” BS mantra doesn’t hold water with The P&C IMO by any stretch.
The labor dispute drags on. The labor union has been given a 30-day extension to appeal.
“If the labor board hears the union’s appeal, it could take months to rule on the matter. And getting the type of written agreement between the SPA, the union and shipping lines that would give Ostergaard and others the comfort they’re seeking could take months longer.”
“‘The terminal is very nice and very well-equipped,’ Osgtergaard said. ‘It’s a pity that you have that sort of state-of-the-art asset sitting there in a market where everything is clogged up and you can’t use it because of disputes on labor issues.’”
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