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| Subject: Longshore workers storm port, smashing everything in sight Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:13 am | |
| Hundreds of Longshore workers stormed the Port of Longview, Wash., overpowered security guards, damaged rail cars and dumped grain at the center of a labor dispute that also stopped work at four other ports on Thursday, officials said.
Police grab International Longshore and Warehouse Union International President Robert McEllrath on Wednesday
Six guards were detained for a couple of hours after at least 500 Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. He called the detained guards "hostages."
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from a car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said. They also pushed a private security vehicle into a ditch.
http://www.freep.com/article/20110909/BUSINESS07/109090342/Longshore-workers-storm-port |
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