Washington State Longshore Workers Resist Anti-Union Grain Operator and Police Brutality
Submitted on September 28, 2011
By Evan Rohar - Labor Notes
An attempt by a big grain exporter to operate a new state-of-the art facility without longshore union labor has met stiff resistance from the rank and file in the Pacific Northwest...Police have responded by breaking up protests and arresting about 135 since July, injuring peaceful demonstrators and pulling unionists from their homes and cars. The Longshore union (ILWU) filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop “ongoing police brutality and harassment.”
