Reply #26: Initially, EGT violated

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an understanding it had with the community of Longview to use local union construction labor to build the facility. Instead, it imported non-union labor from out of state where possible. After breaking off negotiations with ILWU, EGT hired a subcontractor to hire employees from the OEU Local 21 to replace the ILWU. These workers have a contract with the subcontractor, not with EGT. They are scabs, plain and simple. No union worker EVER crosses a picket line and remains one in anything but name only.

http://www.thestand.org/2011/09/heres-why-longshore-workers-are-so-angry/

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july172011/ilwu-resists.php

http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/984/ilwu.html

http://www.longshoreshippingnews.com/2011/09/robert-mcellrath-ilwu-international-president-we-will-not-permit-egt-to-undermine-the-grain-export-industry/