And the union is happy to have skirted another legal battle with the Ashcroft Alliance.
Today, the union president discussed having the Alliance as a legal adversary:
Evan "Mose" Hyde - President, CWU
"Today, we feel the need to essentially tell the public and to tell all stakeholders, that from a membership standpoint of the stevedores, and at the Christian Workers Union, we feel hunted. We feel that we are being encircled by very, very serious-level operations. We, in our view, committed ourselves to finding pathways going forward that would create stability in the relationship between ourselves, meaning the stevedores and PBL. We publicly came and declared that in conversations with the representatives of PBL, and its receivership. We have stated that to the government. We have stated that. But, what we have experienced, over the past couple of weeks, are things that are indicating to us that it is not being reciprocated. And it's important for us to come to you, the stakeholders, to put it out there in the open. We have, among ourselves, assess the situation, the recent history since signing the CBA is a very critical part of our analysis because when we thought by signing the CBA in August of 2020, would usher in some kind of stability, unbeknownst to us, almost at the same time, our financial realities were being amputated. We are in a position where it would appear that there is going to be some kind of battle of attrition where we know we cannot win that ball game. We cannot. We do not have the capacity to be engaged in some kind of protracted litigation confrontation."
The Union points out that it's been almost a month since the Essential Services Arbitration Tribunal delivered its decision on the trade dispute between them and the Port. They say that to date, the Port has not implemented the ruling of the Tribunal.
