Specialty steelmaker and union representing workers at Ohio facility an hour from Pittsburgh are negotiating a new contract.
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UPDATE: Dockworkers Strike Very Likely as ILA- USMX Negotiations Remain Deadlocked. The clock is running out to return to the bargaining table and secure a new contract by September 30th, and the ILA has ruled out an extension. Negotiations have been stalled since June, and resumption of discussions is highly unlikely at this time. The work stoppage beginning October 1st affects ports from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico. Port operators, shippers, and ocean carriers are working to move as many containers as possible while expedited shipments have significantly increased the number of containers moved daily. The Port of NY/NJ, which normally handles about 9,000 containers a day, has been handling up to 15,000 containers daily in recent weeks with increased truck activity snarling local traffic. The U.S. Department of Labor and various other federal agencies are actively monitoring the situation, however, there is no indication the Administration will invoke a cooling off period under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. The ILA and USMX have filed notices with the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service, but, at this point, reports are both sides have not agreed to mediation as is required.
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🔹 Today's #Steel News 📰 🔍 <Tata Steel closes blast furnace №5 in Port Talbot> Blast furnace No. 4 will operate until September 2024 #Tata Steel UK, the UK’s largest steelmaker, will shut down blast furnace No. 5 at its Port Talbot plant this week as planned. This was reported by S&P Global. Blast furnace No. 4 will operate until the end of September along with other steel facilities, as the Unite trade union has suspended the planned strike. Unite had called for a strike on July 8 to protest Tata Steel’s plan to shut down blast furnaces in Port Talbot for the duration of the EAF conversion. In turn, the company said that the shutdown of blast #furnace operations at the plant may start earlier than planned if there is no certainty that it can #safely and #sustainably operate the assets during the strike period. The union confirmed in a comment to S&P Global that the decision to suspend the strike was made after the company confirmed during negotiations that it was ready to discuss future investments in the UK, not just cuts. «This is a significant step in the fight to save jobs and the long-term future of the steel industry in South Wales,» said Sharon Graham, General Secretary of Unite. Earlier, Tata Steel announced that it will continue to close heavy assets and restructure at its Port Talbot facility despite concerns that the upcoming UK general election could jeopardize its £1.25 billion investment plans. The company called on the current and future governments after the election to honor the agreement and protect the agreed terms of the #decarbonization support package. (Reprinted from gmk, if there is any infringement, please email <marketing@ecvinternational.com> to delete it.)
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A recent strike resolution at DP World's port terminals hasn't quelled concerns as a new industrial dispute with the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) is affecting the maintenance of automatic stacking cranes (ASCs) in Brisbane. Container Transport Alliance Australia (CTAA) Director Neil Chambers highlights stalled negotiations between DP World and ETU, impacting just 16 employees involved in electrical trades. Despite the company's offer of remuneration increases, similar to deals with other unions, ETU seeks parity with the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA). The impasse has led to numerous ASC breakdowns, causing significant delays and increased operating costs for transport operators, with truck turnaround times extended to two to five hours. CTAA intends to address this issue with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, considering Chain of Responsibility actions in the container transport logistics chain.
Another DP World dispute is causing crane shortages at port
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“Beep, beep, who got the keys to the Jeep? Vroom I'm driving to the beach” 2618 words 8 minute read - Let’s do this! It’s a busy news week in the industry, Union news taking over the North American ocean logistics world. Before we talk about it, I want to remind you that we are here for you every week to bring you Port X Logistics Weekly Market Updates, where we sum up the current events and the future chaos in the industry. So tag or email this to a friend and follow our LinkedIn page for the most up to date industry news and topics and email us for more information about Port X Logistics and how we can help be an industry knowledge tool for you and your team Marketing@portxlogistics.com. And here we go… The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) said in its update that under Canadian labor law, the strike mandate from May is set to expire on June 30th. A legal strike or lockout cannot occur until a Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decision, and it is unclear when that decision will be made. After the CIRB decision, TCRC would have to give 72 hours’ notice before a strike can begin. The CIRB may grant the rail carriers’ request for a 30-day extension, starting from the decision date, before the 72-hour notice can be served. The rail carriers have estimated that given the CIRB process, a strike will not start before mid-to-end July. The TCRC says that it has sent the CIRB written submissions and attended a pair of in-person meetings but has received "no indication" as to how long the process might take. The TCRC expressed frustration with the open-ended timeline in a June 11th news release, noting that Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas (CPKC) have withdrawn from negotiations since the review began. Moving forward, the union says it will conduct a new strike vote between June 14th - 29th, promising a "quick process.". The uncertainty behind a possible Canadian Rail strike has sparked shipping lines on the trans pacific trade to begin canceling calls to Canada’s main pacific gateways, Vancouver and Prince Rupert. There are 14 port swaps and diversions away from Canada into U.S. ports confirmed from week 24 onward, as well as three completed since mid-May. Of the forthcoming blank sailings announced through to the end of week 31 and the beginning of August, six are on Zim’s ZPX service, which is now not scheduled to call at Vancouver until at least week 31. During the same period, MSC’s Chinook, SM Lines’ PNS and THE Alliance’s PN4 service will all blank Vancouver once, as will the Ocean Alliance’s PNW1 and PNW4 strings, and its PNW3 service twice. Read more here. https://loom.ly/iq5i3k8 #MarketUpdate #OceanImports #ImportAnalysis #TruckingNews #Logistics
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More evidence of the desperate need for a #ministerfioanufacturing to sort out secure supply chain strategy. Crowe UK manifesto4manufacturing makes it clear that secure ongoing steel production is essential.
Port Talbot: Tata plant could shut two months early due to strike
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Tata Steel UK, the UK’s largest steelmaker, will shut down blast furnace No. 5 at its Port Talbot plant this week as planned. Blast furnace No. 4 will operate until the end of September along with other steel facilities, as the Unite trade union has suspended the planned strike. Unite had called for a strike on July 8 to protest Tata Steel’s plan to shut down blast furnaces in Port Talbot for the duration of the EAF conversion. In turn, the company said that the shutdown of blast furnace operations at the plant may start earlier than planned if there is no certainty that it can safely and sustainably operate the assets during the strike period. The union confirmed in a comment to S&P Global that the decision to suspend the strike was made after the company confirmed during negotiations that it was ready to discuss future investments in the UK, not just cuts. «This is a significant step in the fight to save jobs and the long-term future of the steel industry in South Wales,» said Sharon Graham, General Secretary of Unite. Read more here🔽 #GMKCenter #Ukraine #steelmakers #steel #UK #investments #EAF #blastfurnace
Tata Steel closes blast furnace №5 in Port Talbot – News – GMK Center
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BIG NEWS: The ILA (International Longshoremen’s Association) says its 45,000 workers will walk off the job on October 1st, if the union does not reach a contract agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance, which covers ports from Maine to Texas. In recent years, importers have sought to diversify their supply chains in order to avoid labor disruptions at ports on the U.S. and Canadian West Coasts. Now strike fears at East Coast ports have prompted shippers to return volume to the U.S. West Coast. CPKC anticipates a llarge Intermodal Traffic Boost from the anticipated October 1st East Coast Port Strike in the USA: Major importers are testing international intermodal service from Mexico’s port of Lazaro Cardenas to Texas as East and Gulf Coast ports inch closer to a dockworkers strike. The upcoming dockworker strike on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts could turn into a long-term opportunity for Canadian Pacific Kansas City to develop the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas into an alternate gateway to Texas, CEO Keith Creel says. However, they’re also more willing to consider Lazaro, a modern terminal on Mexico’s west coast that’s running at half of its annual capacity, as a way to get imported goods to Texas, Keith Creelof CPKC told an investor conference yesterday. “We’ve had much more interest from the Costcos of the world, the Home Depots of the world, the Toyotas of the world – big players that move products that have to get to shelves or to automotive facilities – that have test moves on the water now to Lazaro to feed Texas markets, which may have been fed East Coast or may have been fed West Coast,” Creel says. Lazaro almost exclusively serves Mexican markets, but CPKC aims to develop the port into a niche player that can be an alternative to Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., and the Port of Houston. “It’s going to be much like what happened … at Prince Rupert,” Creel says of the way Canadian National made the British Columbia port a gateway for containers bound to Canada and the U.S. Midwest. Ultimately U.S. East and Gulf Coast ports will do well serving Texas markets, as will Los Angeles and Long Beach, Creel says. But there’s room for Lazaro, and Creel says CPKC will prove naysayers wrong. https://lnkd.in/eF9Qpzw
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Steelmaker Tata Steel warns that the shutdown of blast furnace operations at its Port Talbot facility in the UK may begin earlier than planned. At the same time, the steel company is challenging the legal grounds for the strike organized by the Unite trade union. Last week, the latter said that about 1.5 thousand workers would go on an indefinite strike on July 8 due to Tata Steel’s plans to close two blast furnaces and cut up to 2.8 thousand jobs. «In the coming days, if we are not confident that we can continue to operate our assets safely and sustainably during the strike period, we will have no choice but to suspend or stop heavy end operations – including both blast furnaces – at the Port Talbot plant,» a Tata Steel spokesman said. The company planned to shut down one of the blast furnaces by the end of June this year and the other by September. However, workers in South Wales have been informed that Tata intends to shut down both units no later than July 7 due to a strike. This is not an easy decision and the steelmaker is aware that it could be extremely costly and disruptive to the supply chain, but the safety of people in or around their facilities will always be a priority. Read more here🔽 #GMKCenter #Ukraine #steelmakers #steel #UK #blastfurnace
Tata Steel warns of possible early shutdown of facilities in Port Talbot – News – GMK Center
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If you’re not paying attention to the contract negotiations between the INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMENS ASSOCIATION and the UNITED STATES MARITIME ALLIANCE LIMITED, now is the time. Current concerns: 🔹There is some strong language being cast (signaling an agreement is less likely), 🔹a potential for all East Coast and Gulf Coast ports to be effectively shut down by a labor strike (or at least a work slow down), 🔹and this all is possible to happen by October 1 (less than a month away) Add’l concern: ➡️ the strike could potentially come just over a month before the U.S. presidential election (adding an element of politics in the mix)
Senior shipping industry officials say a strike at ports from Maine to Texas is starting to look inevitable, raising the prospects of a walkout that would hit the U.S. economy weeks before the presidential election. One industry official told me that if there is a strike, they hope President Biden would invoke a federal law that forces dockworkers back to work. International Longshoremen's Association President Harold Daggett says such a move would be a waste of time. In a video interview released this week, Daggett said that if the president forces his members back to work, dockworkers would deliberately slow operations and further squeeze the economy. "In today’s world, I’ll cripple you," he said.
U.S. Dockworkers Are Bracing for a Strike at Major American Ports
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NOVA CHEMICALS PREPS FOR POTENTIAL CANADIAN RAIL STRIKE Houston, 18 April (Argus) — Nova Chemicals is taking certain precautions such as making early shipments and forward placement of inventory at US storage locations to mitigate against potential polyethylene (PE) supply disruptions caused by a possible Canadian rail strike that could take place as early as 22 May, the company said in a letter to customers. The Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) railroads are (currently negotiating contracts)[/integration/newsandanalysis/article/2553764] with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents 9,300 employees across both railroads. The earliest a strike could begin is 12:01am ET on 22 May, but any work stoppage at either railroad could cause widespread disruption to rail traffic across Canada. "NOVA Chemicals utilizes CN and CPKC to serve our manufacturing facilities and delivery polyethylene products and co-products to our customers," the company said in a 15 April letter to customers. "A labor strike within the Canadian railroad industry will result in disruptions and delays, impacting the timely delivery of these products." Where practical, the company said it will ship product early prior to any strike, it said in the letter. It will also attempt to place some inventory at US off-site storage locations before the strike takes place, which will allow it to continue to serve US customers during a strike. Additionally, Nova said it is maintaining a direct line of communication with rail officials, and creating contingency plans for raw materials supply. "Despite our best efforts to mitigate these challenges, there may be instances where shipments are delayed or rerouted due to the strike action," the letter says. If a strike takes place, market participants said it would likely last around 3-4 days, but could cause delays to shipments for up to two weeks. However, the overall US/Canada market is well-supplied, so any shipment delays should not create significant tightness in the market, sources said. Union employees at each railroad will vote electronically from 8 April to 1 May on whether to approve a strike. By Michelle Klump Copyright © 2024. Argus Media group. All rights reserved. INDUSTRIAL MAFRA
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