August 29, 2011:
It’s fortunate that two of the longshore demonstrators were not killed at the EGT facility at the Port of Longview today. This disturbing video shows the unidentified driver’s callous attack on the nonviolent worker demonstration. The car appears to speed up as it plows into two of the workers. One of the workers is pushed several feet as the car continues moving, and the driver doesn’t even slow down. The driver of the vehicle in the video should be arrested for assaulting demonstrators without regard for their lives.
EGT is a joint venture of Bunge, STX Pan Ocean, and Itochu. EGT has contracted with General Construction Company, employer of Operating Engineers Local 701, to do the work that is the long-established jurisdiction of the men and women of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 21.
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