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Longshoreman Assaults Local News Crew With F-Bomb Tirade (NSFW)

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Whatever the emotional source of the violence erupting as 500 longshoremen went on a rampage at a shipping yard in Washington over union benefits this week seems not to have subsided one bit. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union received a visit from local station KGW and were none too receptive– in fact, a representative in some capacity (he wouldn’t say) of the union threatened to break their cameras, steal their glasses, and sue them for trespass.

The man, who only identified himself by the name “Fuck You Cocksucker*,” immediately turned away the reporters with some heavy-handed profanity, to which the reporter initially joked, “you’re not with the PR staff, are you?” He didn’t quite answer– or, if he did, he did so with some sort of coded language that included a lot of phallic imagery. He then threatened to break the cameraman’s camera and glasses, until finally telling them they would be committing trespass.

The reporting crew agreed to leave, save for one question: “What is your name?” He answered accordingly.

Comical as this video is for viral internet purposes, watching a union representative treat a member of the press the way we assume reporters are treated in authoritarian countries is quite a bit disturbing, especially if the ILWU had any interest in making their plight empathetic to anyone whatsoever. It is also ironic that it is “Mr. Cocksucker” who threatens legal action, as this is full-on video proof, beyond reasonable doubt, of assault that could easily be employed in a civil suit.

The segment via KGW below:



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  • NDanielson

    Oh, more leftist civility on display?

  • Anonymous

    He must be a Tea Party member .

  • Anonymous

    This is just one of the many atrocities that will haunt Barack Hussein Obama ll’s legacy….and leftfully so.

  • Guest

    Has this been on any other news sites or on ABC,CBS,NBC,MSNBC or CNN?  If it hasn’t, why not?

  • Anonymous

    The American Left seems to think profanity is the same thing as a reasoned argument.   And if you tell them otherwise they respond with…yes, you guessed it….more profanity. 

  • Dandkenton

    With a name like Mr. Cocksucker, you’d think the Teabaggers and this guy would be fast friends!  Ballsucker, meet Cocksucker.  It seems perfect.  

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    the one thing about this story that you don’t hear reported much is that this group of union members is at war with another group of union members … http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/08/labor-army-goes-to-war-in-longview/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4FIXQZ45KDYLOD4QPILHSNP5CQ CSC

    I had now idea Ted Bundy was a longshoreman.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is orchestrating all this union violence and thuggery. He’s deliberately riling them all up. Even though he always is cautious enough to publicly stay just far enough away so that he keeps his hands clean, make no doubt he is “leading from behind” here.

  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    Longshoreman behavior is perfectly acceptable by ‘Hoffa Standard’. The White House moved on to the next question, Tommy and Colby were left to defend the ‘Hoffa Standard’ on the Mediaite.

  • BR

    Those “tolerant” liberals.  

  • Anonymous

    if only you were there, then they would have a bottom bitch and the circle would be complete…

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  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    Best line:

    “You’re not with the PR department, are you”?

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    Please delete this nonsense.  It has nothing to do with the post.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1730504135 Bruce Van Brunt

    An example of what Obama’s America would look like if we left him in office.  Vote him out in 2012

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1730504135 Bruce Van Brunt

    This is sad..Obama must be proud of this Union Member.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Now we should expect wall to wall, for months on end, negative coverage from the MSM about how crazy and extreme these labor union protesters are. Right?

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like you need to go see Mr. Cocksucker about your anger issues.

  • bohratom

    Left wing main media is always worried about violence from the tea party and let union thugs like this off without even covering it. Had a tea party member done this it would be the top story on all the nightly news casts but since its their lefty comrades in the unions you won’t hear a peep about it.

  • Anonymous

    No, you can tell he wasn’t because he didn’t use the n-word.

  • Anonymous

    One guy does some stuff to some other guys.  Stop the presses!

  • BR

    Now are you honestly saying that there would not be wall to wall coverage by the MSM if he was a T-Party member?  Lets see if you have an ounce of honesty in you.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Wow, that guy was awesome.

    In an unhinged, sense of entitlement sort of way..

  • Anonymous

    In fact he was a republican.  He worked for the Republican Party and was a delegate to the 68 republican convention. 

  • Anonymous

    Care to address his point?

  • Anonymous

    No… his language is SO much better. And his behavior really represents you team well.

  • Anonymous

    Just a typical example of the union way!

  • Jobob

    What’s really sad is that this moron is too stupid to realize just how much of an ass he made of himself.

  • Anonymous

    You can bet MSNBC will invoke the Tea Party if they ever mention it at all. The false comparison is predictable and inevitable with those folks. The don’t even have enough sense to be embarrassed about it.

  • Dandkenton

    Not sure how a bitch would benefit a couple of guys preoccupied with the male genitalia.  Perhaps one day you’ll learn about all that in a biology class….assuming you learn how to read first.   

  • Anonymous

    Now what party is the part of white trash again?  Somewhere a trailer park is missing their idiot..

  • Darladoon

    great, now all unions are bad

  • Darladoon

    how is he a leftist?

  • Anonymous

    Good point.  Remind me, where’s that tape of Cleaver being called the n-word?  Oh, you mean in that area with tapes everywhere and with Breitbart’s offer of money for the tape, it still hasn’t come forward?  You are so pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    When the President stands on a stage with big labor during a speech that the bulk of the nation is looking at, the MSM is bound to be scared to cover this in it’s full context. That is especially true when they happened so close together. Hoffa’s presence there was obviously calculated to show solidarity with big labor. Obama has said that he stands with them, which right or not, makes it guilt by association in many people’s eyes.
    Hoffa virtually green lighted the Longshoremen’s behavior personally because of that speech with Obama. I’m sure that emboldened them.

  • Anonymous

    No, no. They only obsess over fabricated extremism and violent behavior of the opposition to the MSM’s own party.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sergio-Mota/100000801120004 Sergio Mota

    Everyone  should  flag  the  BS  posting  this  guy  put  up.

  • Norbit

    Kudos to Mediaite for covering this story, while the rest of the media covers it up!

    Where are the White House reporters to DEMAND to know what the President is going to do about the violence fomenting on the Left – fed by media outlets like msnbc, and carried out by the infamous Unions!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    No doubt this guy as are all Longshoreman, required to be members of the Longshoreman’s Union Association, run by the Mafia of whom even the FBI is scared. And, you thought only teachers were required to join the unions.

  • Moderate

    “Fuck You Cocksucker*
    That is a guy Joe Biden would be proud of.

  • Bfife

    You should know.. dandyman

  • Bfife

    The tv station should post this on the news and ask if anyone knows his real name.  :)

  • LeftLeaningLibertarian

    I felt the same way…LOL!

  • Anonymous

    Just an observation- but if anyone seems preoccupied and upset that they do not have teabags in their mouth…it is you.

  • Anonymous

    Sort of the same standard as the one used on the Tea Party peeps, no?

  • Norbit

    “The man, who only identified himself by the name “Fuck You Cocksucker*,”
    =======================================================

    Frances, rarely do I burst out laughing at something I’m reading, but…
    Very funny!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t find it offensive, just kind of annoying.

  • Shades_98122

    Have any of you had a family member that was/is a Longshoreman??? My dad retired as one in that area

  • Shades_98122

    Have any of you had a family member that was/is a Longshoreman??? My dad retired as one in that area

  • Norbit

    LOL!

    Are the Dems gonna’ use clips from “On The Waterfront” as part of their campaign?

    LMAO!

  • Norbit

    When can we expect to see this reported on CBS – NBC or ABC?

  • http://twitter.com/wyleecoyotejim Jim Clark

    For more information on the thuggish activities of the ILWU please check out the following Facebook page: No more Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.

  • http://twitter.com/osajulian osajulian

    Calling Tommy or Colby… are you there… why the silence?

  • Anonymous

    The ‘baggers should be fine with this…they hate the media, so why are they now complaining?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    This is offensive, yet no one object when Big Petty, Sarah N. Italy, Nutsofast and others use the same language here. Interesting.

  • Anonymous

    Take it up with Michelle Bachmann.  She seemed to think he was a good republican last time she was in Waterloo Iowa. 

  • Anonymous

    I WANT to see MORE of this! These are ‘Bamo’s peeps, after all. The more unhinged and rabies-filled these union hacks get, the more they’ll reflect back on OBAMO.

    If these union hacks want to keep driving around in their Escalades with the chrome spinners, getting livid, I’m all for it!

  • Anonymous

    I WANT to see MORE of this! These are ‘Bamo’s peeps, after all. The more unhinged and rabies-filled these union hacks get, the more they’ll reflect back on OBAMO.

    If these union hacks want to keep driving around in their Escalades with the chrome spinners, getting livid, I’m all for it!

  • Pit Boss

    The guy’s an asshole with a big mouth. And he’s a longshoreman. Is this shocking to you hypocrites with your phony outrage?

  • Anonymous

    bottom was the key word, bitch.

  • Anonymous

    Did he know Fuck You or any of the other Cocksuckers?

  • Anonymous

    Who said it was shocking? I think the phony outrage is yours. I find it hilarious, and yet, kinda sad.

  • Anonymous

    One thing he’s got over you, Kook, is that he only lied once.

  • Anonymous

    ok – your post just broke me up!  Good come back.

  • http://profiles.google.com/jimbritttn Jim Britt

    Typical Union/Mafia FOOLS!

    I wouldn’t join a union and pay extortion/protection money to get or keep a job if it paid $1,000 an hour!  Unions should be BANNED.

  • http://profiles.google.com/jimbritttn Jim Britt

    Union “workers” are the laziest people on the planet. 

    I hope Hoffa Jr meets the same JUSTIFIED fate as his 2-bit, scum daddy.

  • Anonymous

    Note that 1:47 he was yelling at the crew “Wait for Jennifer Sargent to call ya.”  and that earlier he directed the reporter using the same language to the strike site.  Jennifer Sargent is the union spokesperson for the strikers.  I think he was entirely under the (well founded) impression the video would never see the light of day, expecting consideration from a friendly press after the spokesperson asked for them to run everything through her as their official face.  It’s just that near assault is just one step past what friends normally allow.

  • fanofgrendel

    To think these are the people that now own the President.

  • Anonymous

    The Tacoma News Tribune ran an editorial condemning these dirtbags. From within that piece:

    “The current agreement between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime
    Association (which bargains for employers) provides senior ILWU members
    with – hold your breath – an average full-time wage of $136,000 a year.
    Clerks make $145,731. Foremen make $200,052.”

    Read the editorial, you’ll see why this union needs busting:
    http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/09/09/1815730/strange-sympathy-for-longshore.html#ixzz1XbqQ5ghF

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sergio-Mota/100000801120004 Sergio Mota

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  • Anonymous

    And Dick “Go fuck yourself” Cheney.

  • Anonymous

    I must have been watching a different video since I didn’t see any security guards being held as hostages, vandalism, or any distruction of property. 

  • Dflojak

    No daralaloon, you’re right, it’s a teaparty longshoreman. That cocksucking teabagger.

  • Dflojak

    Good deflection, stupidity should take you a long way. Asshole cocksucking teabagging longshitman.

  • Pit Boss

    Just because he’s a union member, doesn’t make him a liberal, much less a democrat. Police and Firefighter unions are typically very Republican. I would like to see Republicans go after these unions with the same fervor they go after teachers, longshoremen, etc. As it stands right now, the right shows no consistency with their “outrage.” Wisconsin Walker left them alone while going after all of the other unions. Good thing it’s about the cause and not about politics.

  • Pit Boss

    That would make you an idiot AND a liar.

  • Pit Boss

    There are tea baggers/conservatives in unions. The fact that the author of this piece and all of the baggers replying to it just assume the guy is a “lib” just shows how simple-minded they are.

  • Anonymous

    You can obviously see things in that video that no one else can see.  And since you can’t seem to write much without using profanity, I’d suggest you consider a refresher course in English to help in your lack of communication skills.  Maybe then you can get your thoughts accross to others in a logical manner.  Did you by chance notice I didn’t have to resort to ugly name calling to get my point accross to the red neck portion of of our society.  Now who is the stupid one, when you seem to have problem forming sentences without resorting to using profanity.  You also probably should give carefull consideration about your anger issues.  It seems to ne a pent up anger problem complicated with your limited language skills.

  • Anonymous

    Nope.  The fallacious bit of reasoning you describe isn’t mine or even implied by my original response.  Go back to the top of the thread and read it again.  You are on your own.

  • Glutton

    Sad that guy gets a union job he seems like he’s better suited as a custody of the state somehow.

  • Anonymous

    They don’t own the president and to even connect the two is nothing short of a lie.

  • Anonymous

    Have you ever done the work of a longshoreman?  And you are calling them lazy but have no problem paying a CEO $10.8 Million a year? 

  • Anonymous

    Sailors cuss, loggers cuss and longshoremen cuss.  So, don’t put a camera in their face.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t want to disappoint your nasty little self, but the ILWU has absolutely NOTHING to do with Jimmy Hoffa.
    The ILWU is West Coast only union and is led by a guy you have never heard of – Robert McEllrath 

  • Anonymous

    Violence?  Is it now “violent” to call some one a fucking cocksucker”?  You guys are blowing this story way up just because you don’t like unions.

    Well,these guys are in unions because they have dangerous, hardworking jobs. And they want to keep the jobs. whether they are big crane operators unloading all those ship containers or whatever, they need someone who is going to go to bat for their safety and yes – their pay.

  • Anonymous

    Why?  Is this really that important in the realm of things that are happening in our world?  I wonder if you would cuss a little if you lost your job too.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, never mind that the Longshoreman’s union has nothing to do with Hoffa -but that apparently is not clear to the republicons who post hate on this board.  That’s okay.  Just don’t forget to thank a union member for getting you all those benefits, hours and work conditions you enjoy today.  without the unions, you wouldnt’ be enjoying what you have. 

  • Anonymous

    I was a union member for eleven years. You might be able to sell that line to someone else, but not me.

  • SNAPTIE

    International Longshore and Warehouse Union Division of AFL/CIO. Who was also with Obama that flew from Washington and back as a guest aboard Air Force One? Richard Trumka President of the union.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union

  • SNAPTIE

    International Longshore and Warehouse Union Division of AFL/CIO. Who was also with Obama that flew from Washington and back as a guest aboard Air Force One? Richard Trumka President of the union.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshore_and_Warehouse_Union

  • http://profiles.google.com/jimbritttn Jim Britt

    I would love to see that Jimmy Hoffa Jr turned up missing like his SORRY, CROOKED, MURDERING father.

    Unions are nothing but Mafia fronts and all the leaders of these unions are greedy scum.  Union members are FOOLS to give money to unions so these leaders can live in luxury.

  • Anonymous

    Watch the clip, and try again.

  • Anonymous

    Why do you hate kittens?

  • Hugo Daun

    his behavior really represents you team well

    Wait a second!

    We get to form teams now?

  • Anonymous

    But the point is when one Tea Party member acts like an ass it represents the whole Tea Party. One jerk hold up an offensive sign… condemn them all. But 500 longshoreman terrorize a wharf and it’s “Nothing to see here”. Then a TeeVee news crew goes to get some video (their job) and this guy acts like this and threatens the crew and again it’s “Nothing to see here”.
    Do you seriously think for one second if this was a member of the Tea Party you would not be apoplectic right now? Calling for arrests?
    Why is this not on ANY of the big 3 networks? It’s got it all. Violence, conflict, video footage, it’s got everything that should make this a story to be reported. Why is it not? If this was the Tea Party do you seriously think the big 3 would be giving it a pass?

  • Ralph

    Hired.

  • fanofgrendel

    Bought and paid for. Fearful to offend. Just another politician chained to special interests. Pretended to be something special. THAT was the lie.

  • Anonymous

    That is the type of thoughtful intelligent logic used by most liberals to justify criminal activity. It’s ok if it is for their greater cause but no one else need respond in such a manner in fear of condemnation. But the truth is the majority of conservative citizens don’t behave in such a violent manner.

  • Anonymous

    Democratic base keeping it classy.

  • Anonymous

    The teabagger is the teabagger.  The teabagee, like you, is the ballsucker.  I would rather be the bagger anyday.  But that’s just me.  You probably have different “tastes” in life.

  • Anonymous

    Waaah! Waaah! Waaah! Little Ollie can’t control his obsession waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

  • NDanielson

    You really don’t expect your media to cover it too well, do you??? The fact that AP covered it at all should surprise many.

    Six guards were detained for a couple of hours after at least 500
    Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the
    guard shack, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. He called the
    detained guards “hostages.”

    http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Longshoremen-storm-Longview-port-hold-security/eMBHwPy9ZUSwXG9DYYXZSA.cspx

  • caconservative

    I believe the term implied was Liberal logic. Did you miss that? Well of course you did or you wouldn’t have a argument to base you Liberal nonsense on, would you?

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    At least the thug only used words to assualt the reporter. Most of his compatriots would have used a baseball bat.

  • caconservative

    Try dealing with substantiated fact.

  • caconservative

    When you have NO argument, what issue do you fall back on? Come on, Liberal sheeple, can you all say racism!! Of course you can. In fact, it’s been embedded into your bottom-feeding DNA.

  • caconservative

    I suggest you ask the Liberal Unions members. Before you ask, they talk like Liberals, that’s how I arrived at the term.

  • NDanielson

    Six guards were detained for a couple of hours after at least 500
    Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the
    guard shack, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha. He called the
    detained guards “hostages.”

    No one was hurt, and nobody has been
    arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after
    cutting brake lines and spilling grain from a car at the EGT terminal,
    Duscha said. They also pushed a private security vehicle into a ditch.

    It wasn’t the Tea Party is why you didn’t hear about it, and why it is hard to find.

  • caconservative

    I beg your pardon, there’s nothing semi, about Carter!

  • caconservative

    Let’s not forget the Blue Ridge incident!

  • Anonymous

    Why haven’t these union thugs been arrested? Why hasn’t the NLRB gotten involved. Oh I forget they are busy trying to stop Boeing from building a plant in SC. What do you expect from an NLRB that has been populated by union lovers by the head union lover Obama

  • Anonymous

    There is only one way to deal with union fucks.

    Ask Jimmy Hoffa – he knows what happened to scum like him and his son.

  • Anonymous

    Do you know of any police or firefighter union members that have recently cut brake lines, or taken security officers hostage in a union dispute? Or had this type of profanity laced rant in front of a tv crew? If yes, then I will denounce them too.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Public union workers (thugs) are such classy, fair-minded folks, aren’t they?

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Public union workers (thugs) are such classy, fair-minded folks, aren’t they?

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    No, only when they ARE crazy and extreme, which is seemingly actually more often than the TEA Partiers at least, but not according to the liberal lamestream media, of course.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Good reply.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Sorry, Norbit, if you’re waiting on the alphabet networks, it’s probably only the sound of crickets you’ll hear. Oh, I’m sorry, your question was a RHETORICAL one, right? Never mind.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com Chuck Fowler

    Sorry, Norbit, if you’re waiting on the alphabet networks, it’s probably only the sound of crickets you’ll hear. Oh, I’m sorry, your question was a RHETORICAL one, right? Never mind.

  • Pit Boss

    Out of curiosity, why would national networks pick up the story of a local news station reporter getting called a cocksucker by some douchebag with an anger problem? Think about what you’re saying. How would this be pertinent to anyone outside of that area except for the entertainment value of it?

  • Pit Boss

    LOL! Please keep commenting, Chuck! 

  • Jerry Baustian

    The Longshoremen’s Union has been the most-corrupt of all unions for decades, since before “On the Waterfront” was filmed.

    And the Longshoremen’s Union has been funneling money to Democrat candidates for just as long.

  • LarryB

    His family must be so proud.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Ms Bachmann never mentioned Gacy at any time. That was purely an invention of the MSM.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly this longshoreman hates himself and his sickness…you know…the one that causes him to dress ladies lingerie.

  • TruDat

    Liberal union thugs at their best.

  • Joeandjeanne

    I’m a retired longshoremen, and from the comments i’ve read most have to do with politics. You don’t have a clue of what your talking about. This isn’t about politics it’s about our rights for those jobs. We have jurisdiction on the port docks to do that work not local 701, all we are doing is taking care of what’s belong to the ILWU. Another thing some of you think is that we are a part of the AFL/CIO WE ARE NOT part of there union and never have been, we have in the past supported there union and others unions. About the comments of  the union member with KGW-TV it is not supported by most longshoremen and doesn’t represent the majority of union. We are a very special union which takes care of our own, AN INJURY TO ONE IS A INJURY TO ALL.

  • Anonymous

    The “MSM” is purely an invention of Ms. Bachmann.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Gracie: the MSM, in its current biased form, has been around at least since Ms Bachmann was a child. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_T6QA4PHAEN4YMGOGDCFMLXKHIE bill

    ahhh yes, another example of why the unions are such a piece of cr@p and should be abolished.  The union is such a disgrace and full of pig heads like this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Karg/100000730983312 Mike Karg

    Many yrs ago when I was a Local Prez (OCAW 1-534) we held “awareness” stands, where, at the front gate, we simply let the public know contract negotiations were ongoing, and how we felt the negotiations were going. The idea of breaking into the refinery to threaten the $10 an hr guards or destroy company property did not seem as a means to our ends, obviously things have changed in the country and angry rhetoric has replaced rational negotiations. My point is don’t defend bad behavior, if anything understand how this activity works against your goals, which is to get back to work, regardless how the company has broke the contract, no one will hear anything but this guys rant…

  • Rainygirl68

    No he didn’t use a bat…this time, but if cameras were off he would have! Case in point, during the “protest” (more like riot) they DID use baseball bats AND axes and threatened police with them. So no, I do not believe in any way, shape, or form that the reporter would have been safe from harm if there were no cameras around!

  • Rainygirl68

    That’s a really dumb question and statement. 1. They don’t hate the media, they hate the bias. (You’re ignorance skirt is showing.) 2. Are you seriously dumb enough to ask why they are complaining? Really? Seriously?

    Do you not have the mental capacity to understand comparative logic?

    Let me see if I can make this simple for you: The mainstream media is Liberal (I am neither liberal nor conservative but it’s EXTREMELY plain to see how liberal they are). The mainstream liberal media constantly badgers the “other side” with any little thing they can find to blow out of proportion and/or rightfully complain about and blame the entire “other side” for 1 persons actions. Ok, sometimes it’s warranted but many times it’s not.

    However, they show their ugly hipocratic heads when they claim to be non-bias but refuse to report on stories such as this. NOT BLAME ALL UNIONS FOR THIS, just report what happened!!! That’s hipocracy at it’s finest right there.

    BTW, my mother was a union rep for her department working for the county of Santa Clara…and most unions are CRAP! Unions were once great and necessary to fight for much needed and deserved benefits/human rights, they were such a WONDERFUL thing for all of us and we have all benefited in some way to their exhistance!!! However, they have worn out their use and most have now become greedy, reckless, intimidating and are no longer working for the poeple…only themselves. My mother became the union rep so she could curb the outrages conflicts that were not necessary between the county and the uion. The union would ask for all kinds of outrages demands that the poeple weren’t interested in, it was a tactic. They would use these ”extras” to show they were giving up something in order to compromise and could keep other things they WANTED (NOT NEEDED). That’s not a compromise, that’s manipulation for unnecessary benefits that cost tax payers a LOT of money.

    Another example: I have a friend who’s a teacher. She was bullied by her union in a private 1 on 1 manditory meeting to vote the way the uion TOLD her to vote (I don’t remember what the issue they were voting on was, sorry). They had the voting forms there and told her to just sign it and go back to class, they didn’t even want her to read it!!! They stated her union wanted this to pass, it was for her own good, she didn’t need to read it, she paid them to think about this stuff FOR her, and that she should just trust them and sign it. She refused to sign because she had already heard about what they were trying to pass and done her homework…she didn’t agree with them at that point and wanted to do more research to make sure she was well informed. They threatened her with being fired or being treated so bad she’d want to quit if she didn’t sign!!!

    OMG, are you kidding me??? Unions should be optional, not mandatory. They only look out for what makes the union better, not the worker. Forced unionization is completely against EVERYTHING unions once stood for!!!

    Not all unions are this way, but a big portion of them are. With power, comes greed and ego’s the size of Godzilla. Even with the best intentions it corrupts and that’s not debatable, just look around the world and/or at history, it’s a proven theory (which makes it a fact by our societies standards).

  • Rainygirl68

    Wow you really come across as ignorant of the human race. Just an observation.
     
    Why would they care?
     
    1. It’s UNIONS!!! They affect a lot of people in a lot of areas and like it or not, they are VERY POLITICAL.
    2. Trend, this is not the first nor will it be the last of unionized thuggish behavior.
    3. The liberal media always conveniently leaves out things that make liberals look REALLY bad. Yes this is a liberal union, not all unions are, but this one IS.
    4. Their behavior was terrorism, plain and simple. It was no better than any mafia cartel holding a business hostage and terrorizing them. THAT WOULD be reported, so why shouldn’t this?
    5. Something no one has talked about yet, at least that I have seen: THERE IS A RESTRAINING ORDER PREVENTING THE UNION FROM PICKETING!!! Union members had already harassed and threatened them and now they violated that order and went even further. That’s NOT newsworthy for a union to act that way? Really?
     
    So companies have to act a certain way, give respect and negotiate with workers, especially unions but it shouldn’t be reciprocated? It’s ok for them to act this way? That’s what you want to portray here? Because that’s exactly how you are coming across.

  • Rainygirl68

    Here is their public agreement to stop the violence, if they aren’t violent then why would they need an agreement like this?

    “We [the Teamsters local] will not engage in mass picketing or otherwise impede the ingress or egress of COMPANY employees or employees of any other employer to or from any COMPANY service center or any facility of any neutral person doing business with COMPANY or patrol or walk across the entrance of any COMPANY service center or a facility of any neutral person doing business with COMPANY in such a manner as to impede or delay the ingress or egress of any individual.
    “We will not batter, assault, spit on, blow whistles loudly near a person’s ear, throw any liquid or solid object at, or attempt to assault any non-striking employee of COMPANY or any member of his or her family or any employee of a neutral employee doing business with COMPANY, or any security guard or supervisor or manager of a neutral empoyee doing business with COMPANY in the presence of employees.
    “We will not threaten to kill or inflict bodily harm, make throat slashing motions, make gun pointing motions, challenge or threaten to fight or assault employees, threaten to sexually assault non-striking employees or their family members, threaten to follow non-striking employees to their homes, use racial epithets or obscene gestures at non-striking employees doing business with COMPANY, or on any security guard, supervisor, or manager of COMPANY or neutral employers doing business with COMPANY in the presence of employees.”

    - there is more, but you get the idea!!

  • Rainygirl68

    Not violent?:
    “Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
    Six guards were held HOSTAGE for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.”
     
    Another “non-violent” quote:
    “Our teams of four or five officers were confronted by baseball bat and axe handle wielding protesters.” Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson said.”
     
    Seriously? Try doing some research before you talk, it just makes you sound ignorant. This isn’t just about a guy cussing out a news reporter, it’s about the violent protests the union has been holding (there’s even a restraining order against them for it before this all broke out)…but you won’t hear that in the mainstream liberal news either!!!
     
    19 people have been arrested so far, including the guy in the video who took part in the violence (as his behavior on film depicts).

  • Joe42

    That wasn’t very nice of his parents to give him a name like that.

  • Anonymous

    Baustian, the union depicted “On the Waterfront” was the International Longshoremen”s Association (ILA), a union with conservative leadership, NOT the ILWU.

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