The National Labor Relations Board of the US affirmed the ruling of an administrative judge that the labor union violated federal labor law by engaging in coercive activity directed against the unit of International Container Terminal Services Inc. Oregon at Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland.
The NLRB concluded that between September 2012 and June 2013, ILWU members worked in a deliberately slow manner and interfered with productivity at Terminal 6 and that the ILWU International and Local 8 were responsible for the illegal conduct.
“The importance of this ruling should not be underestimated. Once again, the NLRB, a neutral federal agency charged with enforcing the nation’s labor laws, has found that the ILWU’s slowdowns and other efforts to interfere with production at Terminal 6 were illegal,” ICTSI Oregon president and chief executive Elvis Ganda said.
“It is time for the ILWU to accept the validity of the NLRB’s decisions and to work in a constructive manner with both ICTSI Oregon and the Port of Portland to get Terminal 6 back to full productivity, which is critical to our region’s economy,” he added. Darwin G. Amojelar