(no simple answers..)
Military Intervention vs. Maritime Union Power
by Brian Tierney
For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Armed Forces will be deployed to intervene in a labor dispute, facilitating a scab operation against union dockworkers at the Port of Longview in Washington.
In the long dispute between International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) Local 21 and EGT Development, the international conglomerate is now poised to make its first grain shipment from its new $200 million export terminal, violating its contract with the publicly-owned port and the union’s jurisdiction on the waterfront.
But it may take an army to cross the picket line.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/22
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