the times they are a changing

The times they are a changing. 

 

My, my.  If this doesn't sound like a page from 1919, or 1893.  And the Boss Man never learns.  Just keep pushing the working man/woman down further and further.  Then when they finally come up for air, screaming mad, get a judge to declare them in violation of all sorts of laws, and slam their leaders in the Pokey. 

The Boss Man is always clean.  Just ask his newspapers and TV channels.  He just tries to abide by the Law of the Land. 

Well Boss Man, The times they are a changing. 

 

Curious Carl

----- Original Message -----

From: S. Kashdan

To: Blind Democracy List

Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:06 AM

Subject: Judge Warns Wash. Union to Halt Illegal Tactics

Judge Warns Wash.  Union to Halt Illegal Tactics



By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS



The New York Times, September 8, 2011



TACOMA, Wash.  (AP)--Hundreds of Longshore workers overpowered security
guards in an aggressive raid on a Washington state grain terminal, officials
said Thursday, and the action drew quick rebuke from a federal judge that
has tried to curb the union's escalating tactics in an ongoing labor
dispute.  Workers have been battling for the right to work at the new
terminal in Longview.  But U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a
preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no
defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days.  Protesters twice
blocked the pathway of a train carrying grain to the terminal at the Port of
Longview on Wednesday, and early Thursday morning hundreds of them stormed
the facility, overwhelmed guards, dumped grain and broke windows, police
said.  The dispute halted work at four other Washington ports, including
Seattle, on Thursday as hundreds of longshoremen refused to show up or
walked off the job.  Leighton said he felt like a paper tiger because the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union clearly ignored a temporary
restraining order he issued last week with similar limits.  He scheduled a
hearing for next Thursday to determine whether the union should be held in
civil contempt.  "The regard for the law is absent here," the judge said.