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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-11 02:35 PM
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So far, what I've seen posted at DU has been heavily slanted against the union -- understandable, that's what our "liberal" media does these days. Well, let's try to remember that there's a reason people are protesting something in Longview.

Longshore Workers Dump Scab Grain to Protect Jobs
Evan Rohar and Jane Slaughter | September 8, 2011

The confrontation between West Coast longshore workers and an anti-union exporter exploded as pickets massed on railroad tracks by the hundreds yesterday to block grain shipments.

Police used clubs and pepper spray on protesters in Longview, Washington, as they made 19 arrests.

Early this morning a terminal there was invaded and hoppers holding about 10,000 tons of grain were opened onto railroad tracks.
(more) http://labornotes.org/2011/09/longshore-workers-dump-sc...
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  -Alternate source for Longview ILWU story 0rganism  Sep-08-11 02:35 PM   #0 
  - I'd always heard...  catabryna   Sep-08-11 02:44 PM   #1 
  - Thanks for posting this  lunatica   Sep-08-11 02:50 PM   #2 
  - np - gotta try to keep it "fair and balanced" around here these days  0rganism   Sep-08-11 03:19 PM   #3 
     - I take offense to that.  pintobean   Sep-08-11 03:24 PM   #4 
        - please don't - it's my media grudge talking  0rganism   Sep-08-11 03:32 PM   #5 
           - Ok. Thanks for explaining  pintobean   Sep-08-11 03:35 PM   #6 
  - K&R for the longshoremen.  Brickbat   Sep-08-11 03:43 PM   #7 
  - Good grief, the 1930s all over again., but I am for unions. There  lumpy   Sep-08-11 03:43 PM   #8 
  - It's a union turf war  hack89   Sep-08-11 03:57 PM   #10 
     - Um, it's more than that. Company tried to violate contract that ILWU had  robdogbucky   Sep-08-11 05:18 PM   #14 
  - I don't mind protest, but I can not support cutting brake lines, etc  Travis_0004   Sep-08-11 03:54 PM   #9 
  - Workers volunteer to “put their bodies on the line”  robdogbucky   Sep-08-11 05:10 PM   #11 
  - Int’l Transport Workers’ Federation condemns detention of ILWU president  robdogbucky   Sep-08-11 05:12 PM   #12 
  - It would appear that company tried to violate the ILWU contract at Port, no?  robdogbucky   Sep-08-11 05:16 PM   #13 
 

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