NEAT Members Picket: Dave Husak, Be Fair!
Submitted by carlbiers on Mon, 2008-04-28 15:44.100 members of Local 1588 from NEAT, including several from the Deep Sea Division, picketed in front of the company on Monday, April 28th demanding that David Husak come to the table and bargain over severance and health insurance. NJN News covered the story. Watch the broadcast on the web (18:15 minutes into program on Monday, April 28.)
We Want Justice!
We Want Our Share!
$60 Million and All I Got Was This Picket Sign
Stop Stalling!
Tragic Accident at Global
Submitted by carlbiers on Fri, 2008-03-21 09:13.Longshoremen, Checkers and Maintenance members quickly pulled together in the aftermath of the tragic accident on 3/17/08. Members teamed up to comfort brother Nelson Bonilla who was struck by a top loader, while other members went to comfort brother Gene.
A special thank you to Mike Mormilie, Marie Lezmia, Rob Dickey, and Tasha Santos who stayed with Nelson until the medics arrived and to Tom Lavin, Neal Pacilio and Lou Marrela for staying with Gene through the ordeal. Thank you to mechanic, Danny Rion, who used his EMT training to help apply a tourniqueut and to checker Mike Fulbrook for getting help over the radio.
Assistant Shop Steward Paul Travato told management that many members were shaken up by the accident and informed management that we would break operation and return in the morning. The new Global management agreed and helped assure that members were safe.
President Anthony Falciccihio and Steward Travato went to the hospital to be with both Nelson and Gene. Lezima, Aaron Brandstien, and Dickey also stayed with Nelson in the hospital to the early hours of the morning.
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Local 1588 Statement on MOTBY: Why Bayonne Should Take the Port Authority Deal
Submitted by carlbiers on Wed, 2008-02-06 13:46.The Fight for Good Jobs Continues
Local 1588 has long advocated for the Maritime District on MOTBY to be used as a container port. The port would provide thousands of desperately needed high-paying jobs and millions of much needed revenue for the Bayonne. Our Local and the International Longshoremen’s Association continue to pursue this goal through all available means.
However, despite all the benefits of a container port, the BLRA has held strong to its insistence that the property be restricted to Ro-Ro operations. We adamantly oppose these restrictions, but as long as the BLRA insists on them and they withstand legal challenge, we believe there are compelling arguments to select the Port Authority to run these operations over Port America.
2007 Holiday Party Photos
Submitted by carlbiers on Fri, 2008-01-18 17:52.Click here to see the first batch of photos from the 2007 Casino-in-the-Park Holiday Extravaganza. More to come soon. If you have your own photos of the party that you'd like up on the site, please email them along.
Billy, Angelo, Tom and Ron
Daniele
See more holiday party photos.
Jersey Journal: Army lays down law on Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor
Submitted by carlbiers on Fri, 2008-01-04 17:13.by Ronald Leir, Jersey Journal
Thursday January 03, 2008, 5:30 PM
The Army has forbidden the city of Bayonne and the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority from playing its "shell game" with money paid by developers at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor.
In a tersely worded letter, the Army accused the city of violating the base transfer agreement and has threatened to recoup money Bayonne received from developers and reinvested in the former Army base to foster economic development and job growth.
The Army closed the Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne in 1999 and sold the 430-acre tract to the city for $1 in 2001. In the base transfer agreement, the city agreed to abide by certain stipulations, such as how the money received in land sales is spent.
During fiscal 2005 and 2006, the BLRA took $45 million from the developers, gave it to the city (which plugged a budget hole) and the city in turn borrowed money for the BLRA to use on infrastructure improvements at the Peninsula.
