The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is set to picket today [8/28] over non-use of their union members by many of the major cruise ship companies that visit Juneau and other parts of Alaska.
“Basically there is an immigration law that basically defines U.S. longshore work when foreign hulled vessels are in U.S. waters,” Alaska Longshore Division Local 200 Unit 16 president Dennis Young said. Young is also the Southeast Area committeeman for all of Alaska. “Those vessels have an obligation to contact contract stevedoring companies when they are in port areas in any U.S. waters to hire U.S. longshoremen to perform longshore functions.”
Young stated that within the cruise ship industry there has been blatant disregard of a form in INA: ACT 258 (Limitations On Performance Of Longshore work By Alien Crewmen) that is required to be filled out and given to the Customs and Border Patrol at the first port of entry.