Fighting ICTSI Portland case forces dockers' union ILWU into bankruptcy
Representatives claim the US International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) “will continue to operate as ...
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By Alex Lennane
The Port of Portland, long embattled in a dispute with union workers, staved off a strike threat on Sunday, after reaching an agreement on contracts which stretch until 2013. Officials hope that Hanjin Geneva, which was due on Sunday but suffered a delay after it went aground, will still call at the port.
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