Northwest ports resume normal operations

Labor

Monday, September 12, 2011

The ports of Seattle and Tacoma said they resumed normal operations on Friday, following a one-day wildcat strike Thursday by workers sympathetic with International Longshore and Warehouse Union demands that they should be employed at a new grain terminal in the Port of Longview in Washington. Protesters vandalized the EGT terminal early Thursday morning, breaking windows and dumping grain from rail cars. There were wildcat strikes at several ports and term...

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