Labor officials start building case against longshore union as trial begins
July 24th, 2012
Days before a hearing in late May over two disputed jobs at the Port of Portland’s container terminal, Elvis Ganda said he sat down for a meeting with a longshore union official at Stanford’s Restaurant at the Portland International Airport.
Ganda, chief executive for terminal operator ICTSI Oregon Inc., said he told union coast committeeman Leal “Leo” Sundet he couldn’t support the longshoremen’s claim to the jobs plugging and unplugging refrigerated containers, called reefers. His company’s contract with the Port, he said, required the work to go to members of the electricians union.
Categories: Labor Disputes
