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| Dupe entry: WA Longshormen Union Riots, Kidnaps, Vandalizes |
| 2011-09-08 |
| After storming the Port of Longview, Washington in the early morning, 500 or more members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union disarmed, kidnapped and threatened six security personnel with baseball bats for hours, sabotaged railroad cars and dumped their contents of grain. Police have made no arrests of the perpetrators of the violence, though most returned to their union hall after the attack, where they could have been detained by authorities. The attack was based on the resentment of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce laborers from unions other than the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Police from several police departments and the State police were unable to control or arrest the rioting unionists, even with the assistance of agents from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, being numerically outmatched by the armed mob. Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had previously tried to block the railroad from delivering the grain in defiance of a federal restraining order, issued because of assaults and death threats by union members. 19 members of the ILWU were arrested for violating that order by blocking the tracks. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |