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Lockout at Mitsui-United Grain in Vancouver
From the Columbian:
ILWU calls accusation unfounded
A spokesman for United Grain Corp. said today that an investigative report shows a member of the local International Longshore and Warehouse Union committed two acts of sabotage at the company’s terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
Pat McCormick, spokesman for the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association — a consortium of grain handlers that includes United Grain — said the company fired the employee on Tuesday and notified the union this morning that it is locking out dockworkers.
Jennifer Sargent, an ILWU spokeswoman, issued a statement today, saying United Grain and its Japanese owner, Mitsui, have “fabricated a story as an excuse to do what they’ve wanted to do all along, which is to lock workers out instead of reach a fair agreement with them.”
She added: “It’s no coincidence that Mitsui-United Grain has chosen to throw out unfounded charges by an unnamed ‘investigator’ just days after the union membership ratified an agreement with Mistui-United Grain’s American competitors at Temco in Portland, Kalama and Tacoma.”
Robert McEllrath,...