Reply #5: Because the IUOE [View All]

[sulphurdunn]

is trying to muscle in on the docks like the Teamsters once did. The longshoreman have a union contract with the Port of Longview to hire only ILWU members on its docks. The consortium EGT has grain storage facilities at the Port of Longview, but says it is not obliged to honor the contract (no surprise there). EGT is a foreign owned consortium. First, it tried to bring in non-union workers at greatly reduced wages and failed. Bringing in the IUOE was a secondary strategy. If EGT wins this fight, don't expect the IUOE to have a contract with them for long. They will be gone and the shippers will have set a precedent that will advance their cause of busting the ILWU.