The Port of Longview will continue to allow eight longshore union picketers outside East Mill Road near the $200 million EGT grain terminal, but they may need to move for road improvements, officials said at a port commission meeting Tuesday.
After hundreds of people broke into the terminal and damaged a grain train Sept. 8, law enforcement banned all pickets on East Mill Road leading to the terminal, saying union members had violated an agreement to remain peaceful. Port officials decided the following weekend to allow eight people to picket on port property at the intersection of East Mill Road and Fibre Way, as long as they didn’t bar access of vehicles on the road, Port Director Ken O’Hollaren said at the Cowlitz Expo Center.