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Union thugs following Hoffa's command...
Topic Started: Sep 8 2011, 10:42 AM (366 Views)
LTC8K6
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http://news.yahoo.com/longshoremen-storm-wash-state-port-damage-rr-144921214.html

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LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.

Thursday's violence was first reported by Kelso radio station KLOG.

Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday.

"We're not surprised," Duscha said. "A lot of the protesters were telling us this in only the start."

One sergeant was threatened with baseball bats and retreated, Duscha said. "One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion."

The train was the first grain shipment to arrive at Longview. It arrived Wednesday night after police arrested 19 demonstrators who tried to block the tracks. They were led by ILWU International President Robert McEllrath, who said they would return.

The blockade appeared to defy a federal restraining order issued last week against the union after it was accused of assaults and death threats.

EGT chief executive Larry Clarke said it was unfortunate that law enforcement needed to make arrests.
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Another Hoffa. We can only hope.

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kbp

The unions fight amongst themselves in this battle, though business owners control which union is working so far.

It's a new facility, so I'd anticipate the entire event was recorded and stored in digital records.
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"Let's go get those S.O.B's!"

Still no condemnation by Obama.

2012 is going to get wild.
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Baldo
Sep 8 2011, 03:33 PM
"Let's go get those S.O.B's!"

Still no condemnation by Obama.

2012 is going to get wild.
owebama stated that he is not going to be the speech police. In other words the Dems. can spout off all the hate speech they want and not be held accountable for what they say. But the republicans are held to account for what they say.
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Baldo
Sep 8 2011, 03:33 PM
"Let's go get those S.O.B's!"

Still no condemnation by Obama.

2012 is going to get wild.
And the leader of those union thugs will be sitting with Mochella tonight, when Zero speaks to the Congress. The repubs should all just boycott the speech.
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Now spreading to other ports...

http://tdn.com/news/state-and-regional/washington/article_c53ac622-da37-11e0-a6f1-001cc4c002e0.html
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http://www.wral.com/news/story/10106933/
Judge warns Wash. union to halt illegal tactics
Posted: 4:18 a.m. today
Updated: 11:26 a.m. today

TACOMA, Wash. — Union activists aren't backing off demands to work at a new Washington state grain terminal after hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards and dumped grain.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days.

Workers have been battling for the right to work at the new terminal in Longview. Protesters twice blocked the pathway of a train carrying grain to the terminal at the Port of Longview on Wednesday, and on Thursday hundreds of carried out the aggressive raid, police said.

The dispute halted work at four other Washington ports, including Seattle, on Thursday as hundreds of longshoremen refused to show up or walked off the job.

The Port of Longview was quiet Friday and Longshore workers were back on the job in Seattle.

Scott Mason, president of the ILWU Local 23 in Tacoma, said some of his members have joined in the Longview effort, but he doesn't believe they were involved in illegal activity. He blamed the company for provoking the response and warned that more activity could be coming.

"How long this fight has to go on is really in their court," he said.

Leighton said he felt like a paper tiger because the International Longshore and Warehouse Union clearly ignored a temporary restraining order he issued last week with similar limits. He scheduled a hearing for next Thursday to determine whether the union should be held in civil contempt.


"The regard for the law is absent here," the judge said. "Somebody is going to be hurt seriously."

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kbp

Contempt of court would probably just be a minor fine. We know they have breaking and entering, tresspassing, and destruction of property, while I also believe there was forceful action against guards at the gate mentioned. They get a Mulligan again here!
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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/meet-the-democratic-party-up-close-and-personal.php
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LTC8K6
Sep 9 2011, 11:42 PM
...and the actual fight is one union taking jobs from another.
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http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/13/two-measly-arrests-in-wa-longshoremen-union-mobs-attack/
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LTC8K6
Sep 14 2011, 12:36 AM
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They sound almost Irish, if they aren't. Leaves me curious why they didn't get Mulligans?
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