Truck driver says he was attacked by striking dock workers at Port of Baltimore

A trash truck driver said that he was assaulted while attempting to operate at the Port of Baltimore on Tuesday, according to reports.

At midnight on October 1, 45,000 dockworkers and members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on strike, shutting down 36 port facilities from Maine to Texas.

The ILA is seeking a new contract including a $5 per hour raise for each year of the six year deal as well as “absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation” at port facilities, according to ILA President Harold Daggett.

On Tuesday morning, Fox 5 spoke with a truck truck driver who said that he’d been injured by picketers while trying to work at the Port of Baltimore.

“…they attacked me and broke the windshield and lacerated my face. Look at it,” the driver said in an interview he gave with blood running down his face from apparent wounds near his eye and on his cheek.

See the truck driver speak about what happened in the video below.

CNN later quoted Daggett telling supporters at a rally at the Ports of New York and New Jersey later on Tuesday that “last night some guy in Baltimore in a dump truck tried to run over the pickets. Well, he wished he didn’t do that because they ripped him out of the truck.”