Longshoremen’s Union Illegally Sought Port Work, NLRB Rules (1)

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union violated federal labor law by trying to acquire maintenance and repair work at the Port of Seattle that the National Labor Relations Board assigned to a different union in a separate case, the NLRB ruled.

ILWU illegally pursued the work via a contract claim in arbitration against SSAT Terminals LLC, which handled the work that the NLRB gave to the International Association of Machinists in 2020, the board said in its Thursday decision.

The ruling highlights the complex intra-union conflicts over work at West Coast ports, which have been experiencing a slowdown of ...