Members of our community need to know how the Port of Walla Walla treats its own employees and has misspent our tax dollars. Over the last few years, the port spent $172,000 on lawyer's fees to unsuccessfully fight one fireman's legal right to exercise his collective bargaining rights under state law. The port was found to have unlawfully failed to bargain in good faith, unlawfully laid off the fireman and discriminated against him for trying to exercise his statutory rights.

What a slap in the face to every hard-working union member within our community. To use public tax dollars to try and p...