teamster in wash;
I can only point to the Teamsters *OWN* press release, dated Oct. 2nd., which reads as follows:
"Eydie Dean, a business agent for Local 117 in Tukwila, was walking the picket line when a truck driven by a replacement worker pulled into the Oak Harbor Freight facility in Pasco. Teamster officials are concerned about numerous safety issues surrounding replacement drivers. Some of the incidents have been captured on video and posted on YouTube. Links to the videos are provided below.
"I was ****STANDING**** [my emphasis added] on the picket line with my sign way up high and the driver could see it," Dean said. "He pulled forward and I said stop and he just laughed and kept going, pushing me about three feet."
Note that the picketer stated his/herself that he/she was STANDING (his/her word); not "walking" and allowing ingress. In fact, by his/her own admission, he/she specifically commanded the driver to "stop"
Meanwhile, it's been claimed by Teamsters (whether here or on other forums) that the police allegedly told them that they were allowed to block incoming/outgoing traffic for (as I recall) up to "three minutes"....but that now the police have backed away from that story. Supposedly the union's lawyers are looking into it, blah, blah, blah....the same tune that's been repeated time after time on picket lines with similar situations.
By the way, the only mention I've seen of the driver being ticketed was in the Teamster release; I haven't seen than mentioned in any independently originated news source; i.e. - I don't know if it's true or not I do know that if the picketers were trying to block ingress (and, after all, the picketer admitted that he commanded the driver to "stop", and additionally several Teamsters have claimed they WERE trying to block ingress) and the driver was ticketed, then the wrong individual received the citation; i.e. - the Teamsters received a "bye" for an illegal activity (nothing real new there, either)
I realize that's a spin on the topic a lot of Teamsters don't like to hear....but there's that side, never-the-less.