USA: End the port workers lockout in Vancouver

 

In partnership with the International Transport Workers Federation, a global federation of 690 unions representing over 4.5 million transport workers in 153 countries .

Workers at the Port of Vancouver, Washington, USA have been locked out by their employer, Japanese conglomerate Mitsui-United Grain, since February 27, 2013. The ITF believes the lockout is an anti union attack and an attempt to avoid negotiating with workers in good faith over their collective bargaining agreement. The workers' latest agreement expired in September 2012 leaving them without a contract and open to abuse by their employer which has now taken extreme and aggressive action.

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Type in your message here - or just use the existing message. I am concerned at reports of your extreme and aggressive behavior towards workers at the Port of Vancouver, Washington. It appears that the locking out of workers is a direct attempt to avoid negotiating with them over a new collective bargaining agreement. I would encourage you to urgently bring about an end to the lockout and to enter into good faith dialogue with Vancouver port workers as I understand other employers in a similar situation in the US have already done. If you would like to receive future urgent action alerts from us, please check this box: Enter the number 1795 here: Thank you Your message will be sent to the following email addresses: hiroy.nakayama@mitsui.com, mitsuidockers@gmail.com