By Will Robinson, Reporter, Jacksonville Business Journal; October 10, 2018
CSX filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court against the Toledo, Ohio, chapter of the International Longshoremen’s Association, asking a court to compel arbitration in a dispute over staffing levels. The Jacksonville-based railroad previously reached a settlement agreement with the ILA chapter in 2016 over staffing levels and claims the union is “engaged in a pattern of obstructing” a contractually-defined dispute process.
The ILA chapter represents workers at the Toledo Coal Dock, where coal is transferred from CSX railcars to boats on the Great Lakes. CSX (Nasdaq: CSX) and the ILA are bound by a 2014 agreement, which defines a minimum number of ILA-represented employees CSX must hire, unless it gives 32-day notice of its intent to change these staffing levels. ILA has the power to counter any number listed in a CSX notice, and if the two cannot agree on a staffing level, according to the 2014 agreement, the dispute is to go to binding arbitration.
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