Guido Grimaldi, founder of the Grimaldi Group has died
Source:Mediterraneo Maritime News / El Diario del Puerto
Guido Grimaldi, founder and Chairman of the Grimaldi Group (Naples), has died at the age of 92.
Guido Grimaldi had a remarkable and long-lasting entrepreneurial career which won him many tributes and accolades both nationally and internationally
Del Monte leaves ILA docks for cheap labor, workers say
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A top longshoremen’s union official is threatening job actions and boycotts against Del Monte produce in East Coast ports after Del Monte moved 200 banana-ship unloading and warehouse jobs from its Camden terminal to the Holt family’s lower-paying port operation in neighboring Gloucester City.
Stevedores, warehousemen and other workers at South Jersey Port
Corp.-owned Pier 5 in South Camden earned wages starting at $24.50 an
hour, plus benefits, moving Del Monte fruit as members of the
International Longshoremens Assocation, Philadelphia-based ILA vice
president James Paylor said. He says the work’s been moved to the Holt
family’s Pier 7 in neighboring Gloucester, where workers earn around
$12 an hour and are members of an independent union. (A source close to
Holt said wages are in the $16 to $18 range, and the workers have
Teamsters benefits.)
Costa Rican Court Rejects Illegal Coup of Longshore Union
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ILWU Press Release (Extract)
Costa Rican longshore workers are celebrating yesterday’s ruling in their country’s Constitutional Court that throws out an illegal, government-run coup of the democratically elected SINTRAJAP longshore union leaders. The ILWU Coast Longshore Division has advocated on behalf of the legitimate SINTRAJAP leadership, led by General Secretary Ronaldo Blear, for the past six months and is calling the ruling an important step forward in the never-ending fight to protect workers from exploitation.
Antolín Goya unanimously re-elected IDC General Coordinator
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Goya was unanimously re-elected last Wednesday as the International Dockworkers
Council’ new General Coordinator during the IDC 4th General Assembly that took
place in Charleston, South Carolina on the 23rd and 24th of February.
