The night before the port commission meeting, ILWU Local 21 members and their supporters from other longshore locals defended their jurisdiction at the EGT grain facility in Longview, WA, July 11, 2011. About 100 members were arrested and loaded into law enforcement vans by the dozen.
Union dock workers continued their protest of proposed hiring policies at the EGT grain terminal, demanding Tuesday at a Port of Longview commissioners’ meeting that union labor be used on all projects on port property.
Dan Coffman, president of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21, said he’s concerned that EGT built a fence within the last few days that extended onto a port-operated road on the east end.
“That fence needs to be taken down. It needs to be taken down by the port’s labor force,” Coffman said.