The ILWU has yet to provide their members with a copy of the proposed PNW Grain agreement, that was announced on August 12th.
Big Bob and Leal Sundet held secret negotiations and willfully denied their members any information related to the Grain talks, but that did not stop Locals like Local 23 in Tacoma, Washington, from requiring all their members to walk on the picket lines set up by Local 4 in Vancouver, Washington.
Local 23 membership, at a recent union meeting, voted to require members to do picket line duty or be fined $100. Most members I know do not want anything to do with the violent nonsense related to the Grain, and do not know anything about what is happening. They will either pay the $100 fine or claim their medical condition does not allow them to participate.
The ILWU is learning that they can no longer bully everyone, including their members, their employers, and their Governor, into doing what ever they want.
All the PMA Employers are watching the Grain negotiations very closely, and are now trying to figure out how to get similar concessions from the ILWU in the PCLCD negotiations.
Come on Big Bob, tell us what you are up too, if you know.