Longshoremen stopped working at State Pier on Monday, protesting the lack of a long-term commitment from Danish wind company Ørsted and possibly spoiling what was expected to be a milestone week in the construction of the region’s first offshore wind farm. More than two-dozen members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked off the job, union officials said. Ørsted considers the ILA’s demands part of a jurisdictional issue between different unions and said it considered the protest counterproductive. The work stoppage in New London may delay the loading of the first turbine parts scheduled to ship off by barge this week from State Pier to Ørsted’s South Fork Wind farm off the coast of Long Island. About 28 longshoremen would typically be working to load the wind turbine parts at State Pier.
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