Case: Labor Relations/Work Jurisdiction (N.L.R.B.)

Employees of SSA Terminals Inc., represented by International Longshore and Warehouse Union, are entitled to continue perform disputed “cold ironing” work at the Port of Seattle, the NLRB ruled, addressing a jurisdictional dispute under Section 10(k) of the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB found that an International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local violated Section 8(b)(4)(D) of the NLRA by threatening to picket and strike with the object of forcing SSA Terminals to assign the “cold ironing” work to employees it represents rather than employees represented by ILWU, Local 19. Relying on the factors of ongoing collective-bargaining agreements, ...