Daniel Foss is chartered but not in Foss colors so maybe they did decide the $ was too good to pass up…
[QUOTE=rshrew;135571]Daniel Foss is chartered but not in Foss colors so maybe they did decide the $ was too good to pass up…[/QUOTE]
The Tiger 8 & Tiger 9 were seen putting ships in and out of Columbia Grain. This are the boats Foss charted from Hawaii Tug and Tow.
correct you are sneaky sneaky foss
[QUOTE=rshrew;135612]correct you are sneaky sneaky foss[/QUOTE]
Foss claims they’re doing those ship jobs with just management on the boats, but heard that they did a job in Vancouver than went right to Columbia grain for and out and in there. Maybe the crews are sick of watching other people doing they’re job with one of their boat at the terminal that they used to do before the lockout/strike.
[QUOTE=Dragger50;135622]Foss claims they’re doing those ship jobs with just management on the boats, but heard that they did a job in Vancouver than went right to Columbia grain for and out and in there. Maybe the crews are sick of watching other people doing they’re job with one of their boat at the terminal that they used to do before the lockout/strike.[/QUOTE]
Just looked on marine traffic and Foss is doing the scab work.
They are doing the work with management and the crews are getting POd. The union guys won’t do it, so they take the boat back to the dock and office guys come down with their ppe, hop on and go do the job. Things are in total state of flux over there since the purchase from tidewater fell through. They are still bound by the CBO though and something needs to be done to stop this.
[QUOTE=ALLISION;136110]They are doing the work with management and the crews are getting POd. The union guys won’t do it, so they take the boat back to the dock and office guys come down with their ppe, hop on and go do the job. Things are in total state of flux over there since the purchase from tidewater fell through. They are still bound by the CBO though and something needs to be done to stop this.[/QUOTE]
Foss only cares about there profit margin and will not stop. Since the sale to Tidewater fell through they chartered the Tiger 8&9 to increase their ship assist capacity and Columbia Grain is one of their contracts and they are planning to get more. Don’t be fooled by this ploy that their doing the job with management only. Their running around from one job to the next without stopping to let the union guys off.
Yeah the ILWU needs to settle before they blow up this port!!!
[QUOTE=Signal Red;136207]Yeah the ILWU needs to settle before they blow up this port!!![/QUOTE]
If Foss continues with no major issues, what is there to stop Tidewater and Shaver for following suit. I can only imagine how much their bottom line has been affected by there guys not servicing those two grain terminals.
[QUOTE=Dragger50;136213]If Foss continues with no major issues, what is there to stop Tidewater and Shaver for following suit. I can only imagine how much their bottom line has been affected by there guys not servicing those two grain terminals.[/QUOTE]
I hear that Kalama is going on strike in a few months and Louis Dreyfus Commodities at the end of the summer. Is this true? Than will happen in the port??
[QUOTE=Dragger50;136449]I hear that Kalama is going on strike in a few months and Louis Dreyfus Commodities at the end of the summer. Is this true? Than will happen in the port??[/QUOTE]
I also hear that some of the protesters are getting written up by the coast guard. Is that true?
I just read that 30-60 ILWU picketer were picketing at the house of one of Foss’s captains. That is just going to push Foss to keep going. Their plan since they didn’t sell to Tidewater is to get more terminals to work at. They could careless about any strike or lockout.
If there were people picketing at my house, the picketing at least wouldn’t last long…
If you scab, you take your chances. No sympathy here for the captain.
Fuck with their car at work, throw eggs at em at the dock, don’t fuck with their families. That’s just being a decent human being.
I still don’t get how the guys on the boat are scab? It the longshoremen locked out/ on strike, not the IBU. The IBU guys just aren’t doing there kids so they got others to do it with there boats. If the IBU ever goes on strike do you think the ILWU will stop doing their jobs for a year. I think not. Plus while the IBU guys get less hours at work, the ILWU guys are working at all the other terminals and the days they picket get 80% of their if they were work at the grain terminal.
[QUOTE=Traitor Yankee;137683]Fuck with their car at work, throw eggs at em at the dock, don’t fuck with their families. That’s just being a decent human being.[/QUOTE]
Typical “classy” union action.
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[QUOTE=Dragger50;137684]I still don’t get how the guys on the boat are scab? It the longshoremen locked out/ on strike, not the IBU. The IBU guys just aren’t doing there kids so they got others to do it with there boats. If the IBU ever goes on strike do you think the ILWU will stop doing their jobs for a year. I think not. Plus while the IBU guys get less hours at work, the ILWU guys are working at all the other terminals and the days they picket get 80% of their if they were work at the grain terminal.[/QUOTE]
The ILWU has never done jackshit to support the IBU. I doubt it ever will.
This morning the ILWU refused to work a ship at PDX Bulk because Foss used a non-union boat, the ILWU waited till union tugs re- berth the ship before they would work it.
Expect more and more of this as the ILWU contract has expired here on the West Coast. The union and the PMA(employers) have been in negotiations.
The ILWU have reached a tentative agreement with grain elevators and will be ratifying in the coming weeks.