Obama Set to Use Military Intervention Against Washington Longshore Workers
Submitted on January 23, 2012
By Ben Schreiner - January 23rd, 2012
Within weeks, if not days, the international conglomerate EGT Development will seek to commence operations at its new $200 million export grain terminal at the Port of Longview. In refusing to use [International Longshore and Warehouse Union] labor, EGT is breaking the precedent in place since the 1930s, which holds that all public port docks up and down the West Coast are to be worked by the ILWU...Yet, as the ILWU and its allies ready to fight EGT’s union busting, the US military lies in wait to intervene on the behalf of the conglomerate.
