Posted on 09/08/2011 8:32:58 AM PDT by RedhairRedhair
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested.
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Nobody arrested? Oh well back to the hall for coffee break...
Hey they’re just taking out the SOB’s like Hoffa advised. Typical commie union thug behavior
That's a big crime.
Well, it would be for anyone who wasn't in a union, anyway.
Union leftists longshore
Union leftist cops
What you going to do.
Just another flash mob.
—smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested.—
I do that all the time. The cops say I can damage all the private property I want as long as nobody is hurt.
/s
*sigh* yeah. Nothing to see here, move along...
Just what I have always done - hire scabs and beat them at their game - it is way more fun and makes getting up and going to work much more worth it.
If you want more of a behavior, you reward it.
If you want less of a behavior, you punish it.
More upside down news from bizarro America.
Wasn’t there an episode of cops where they broke into a rundown crack house but the guy showed his union card and they stopped and just gave him a stern warning?
Oh, and they apologized for shooting the dog.
As long as we have a communists President and his Union supporters, nothing will happen. Beware, we have the makings of a real communists Country.
Yet the Tea Party members are terrorists and sons of b*tches...
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.
They're p*ssed because the company has decided to go with a less thuggish union and they feel entitled to the jobs at the inflated rates which other companies are stupid enough to pay them.
If they had not elected moonbeam... they could call out the National Guard and kill them all.
LLS
“Under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Enmons decision, vandalism, assault, even murder by union officials are exempt from federal anti-extortion law. As long as the violence is aimed at obtaining property for which the union can assert a “lawful claim”—for example, wage or benefit increases— the violence is deemed to be in furtherance of “legitimate” union objectives. By the Court’s peculiar logic, such violence does not count as extortion.
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-316es.html
Freedom from Union Violence
by David Kendrick
David Kendrick is program director at the National Institute for Labor Relations Research.
Executive Summary
Under the Supreme Court’s 1973 Enmons decision, vandalism, assault, even murder by union officials are exempt from federal anti-extortion law. As long as the violence is aimed at obtaining property for which the union can assert a “lawful claim”—for example, wage or benefit increases— the violence is deemed to be in furtherance of “legitimate” union objectives. By the Court’s peculiar logic, such violence does not count as extortion.
The result has been an epidemic of union-related violence. The National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR) has recorded 8,799 incidents of violence from news reports since 1975. Those reports show only 258 convictions, suggesting a conviction rate of less than 3 percent. Moreover, local law enforcement authorities often get many more reports of strike violence than journalists can possibly cover.
Many states have taken a cue from the high Court by enacting their own extortion laws with exemptions similar to those established by Enmons. As a result, employees trying to support their families during a violent strike are now denied protection against extortion under both state and federal laws.
Because the federal government for six decades has immersed itself in labor law under the rubric of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), federal action is necessary to see that violence does not accompany the exercise of powers created by that statute. One avenue for relief is the Freedom from Union Violence Act (FUVA), which targets all extortionate activity, even if committed by union militants in pursuit of “legitimate” objectives.
Somebody ask BO whether Hoffa is responsible for this violence.....
Unions vs. unions,they are eating their own.
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