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ILWU claims grain company 'fabricated' sabotage story

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Friday, March 01, 2013

The International Longshore Workers Union is accusing Mitsui's United Grain Corp. of fabricating a story about an ILWU member sabotaging equipment at its grain export terminal in Vancouver Wash., to lock workers out. Earlier this week, United Grain Corp fired an employee it believes vandalized equipment in December and had its lawyer send a letter to the union announcing the lockout . It has also released a summary of an investigator's report about the alleged sabotage of two...

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