Sentence examples for port union from inspiring English sources

On the Greek side of the port, union rules required that nine people work a gantry crane; Cosco uses a crew of four.

The port workers' union opposes this.

The port workers union has called on stevedores in Brazil's main ports not to unload Canadian cargo.

West Coast Port Employers, Union Back In Talks.

Cargo-handling is being transferred to the private sector in a sweeping reform of ports, a union stronghold.

At Embraport, which is outside the public-port area, union members from Santos blocked road access and boarded any ships that tried to dock.

The employers said they were acting defensively, in response to a job slowdown that was paralyzing the ports, but union officials said the longshoremen were merely working more cautiously than usual because of safety concerns resulting from the deaths of five longshoremen this year.

The dispute in Camden involves a decision by Del Monte to move its fruit-importing operations from a union port there to a port in Gloucester City, N.J.

West Coast port employers accused union longshoremen yesterday of engaging in a work slowdown in Oakland and Long Beach, Calif., and threatened to lock out the longshoremen in response, a move that would close ports from Seattle to San Diego.

The Northern Territory government has signed a $506m agreement with a Chinese based group for a 99-year lease of the Darwin port, but the union has expressed outrage at a lack of protections for workers.

Industry executives said that G.M. had already agreed to a formula under which it would take over an aging plant in Inchon, the industrial port city where union members staged violent negotiations last winter after layoffs that reduced Daewoo Motor's work force from 22,198 last October to 15,775 today.