Excerpt’s from today’s article at the Daily News:
Accusing the local longshore union of unfair labor practices, a federal board is seeking an order to end “aggressive” picketing at the Port of Longview and allow trains to make deliveries to the new EGT grain export terminal.
Union officials in the ILWU’s San Francisco headquarters vowed Tuesday to fight the NLRB, blasting the accuracy of the allegations and blaming EGT for inciting violence at the terminal gates. The NLRB complaint will be heard by an administrative law judge Oct. 11 in Portland. The NLRB became involved as a result of complaints filed by EGT in July and August.
“The NLRB is creating the fiction that Local 21’s labor dispute is somehow with General Construction and not with EGT. The documented facts at trial will prove the NLRB to be dead wrong about this,” said Leal Sundet, the ILWU’s San Francisco-based coastal committeeman, in a written statement.