ILWU Local 12 longshoremen protest the use of non-union labor in Coos Bay, Oregon, July 2012. Photo by The World.
About 25 Coos Bay International Longshore and Warehouse Union members gathered Monday outside Southport Lumber Co. to demand work.
Longshoreman Gene Sundet said Southport refused to hire union members
for barge work at its newly completed barge slip on the North Spit.
“The public needs to know what is going on. It is longshoremen’s jurisdiction.”