Company Receives $60 Million to Shut Down
Stalls and Delays Bargaining with Union over Severance and Health Care

100 Workers To Picket Monday, 12:30 PM.

The owners of Northeast Auto-Marine Terminal (NEAT) and D&L Rail Service, David, Lisa, and Alan Husak, are receiving a $60 million windfall buyout from the Port Authority for the 11 years remaining on the companies’ lease.

More than 100 workers, many who have worked for the company for three decades, will lose their jobs in July.

International Longshoremen’s Associtiation Local 1588, representing 95 of these workers, has repeatedly asked NEAT and D&L’s President, David Husak, to fulfill his legal obligation to bargain over the impact of the shut down.

Blaming their law firm, the Company says they can’t meet until May 19, nearly two months after Local 1588’s initial request.

The company is stalling and delaying. Workers fear that the the delay is intentional, that the company is waiting as long as is legally possible, because it’s message to its workforce will be: there’s nothing for you.

Local 1588 members will conduct an informational picket on Monday, April 28 from 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM in front of NEAT’s facility at 403 Port Jersey Blvd in Jersey City.

Northeast Auto-Marine Terminal processes imported Mazdas and BMWs and exports used vehicles. It employs 80 members of Local 1588. D&L Rail Service unloads Nissans from a railhead at the Greenville Yards in Jersey City and employs 15 members of Local 1588.

Contact Carl Biers at 201-230-0128 for more information.