Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Longshoremen Get Old-School With Trespassing and Train Blockage

Last Monday, more than 100 union longshoremen were arrested after they tore down a fence and entered a new terminal at the Port of Longview in Washington state to protest its nonunion status. Then, early Thursday morning, hundreds of people—members of International Longshore and Warehouse Unions Local 21—stormed the facility in order to stop a mile-long freight train from delivering grain and to protest the use of nonunion labor at the port.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11732/longshoremen_get_old-school_with_trespassing_and_train_blockage/