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Strike! Ports of LA and Long Beach face possible shutdown as clerical workers picket terminals
LA Daily News ^
| 11/28/2012 01:48:18 PM PST
| By Brian Sumers Staff Writer
Posted on 11/28/2012 5:03:39 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
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To: Fiji Hill
wait.. how do you outsource a port?? Ensenada is about 60-odd miles south of the border. Yes, but those goods have to reach U.S. stores somehow, usually by truck. It's unlikely Teamsters will haul the stuff when their Longshoremen "brothers" are on strike. Of course there are plenty of Mexican trucks and drivers willing to do the job...
To: DeaconBenjamin
Strikes should become now a plague. the Unions think the Left has won and they can do what the left đoes when the old order falls or begins to fall. They try to get as much of the remains as they can and they think the New Leninist Regime will cheer them on. It precedes nationalization, real nationalization.
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:05:28 PM PST
by
arthurus
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:30:25 PM PST
by
RedMDer
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To: DeaconBenjamin
Awww. Unions screwing over Americans at Christmas.
How cute!!
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:30:38 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Probably something like the Hostess deal where drivers couldn’t drive a truck with both bread and confections on board which complimented the people who couldn’t load bread and confections. Probably something just as serious in the small minds of the union officials. Hell, get them all fired if necessary to uphold their principles, no matter how flawed.
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:36:34 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The law of unintended consequences is an unforgiving and vindictive b!tch!)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Both UPS and FEDEX cargo planes routinely “move” finished products/palleted loads, without going through California’s shipping ports.
Major airports also have customs agents.
It’s often cheaper and more efficient for established manufacturers and their dealers/retailers network with finished products.
Let them all strike! Shut the California shipping ports down completely for several months!
The container ships will re-route deliveries to Canada or Mexico.
It may even eventually end up being more cost equalising for bulk container materials to go through customs twice before reaching a USA business warehouse.
OR
It will become more attractive to invest in manufacturing facilities inside the USA instead of China!
Strike on, California union shipyard clerical staff and dockworkers!
The jobs you overpriced, will open up better ones for non-union citizens in the rest of the USA, Mexico, and Canada!
I think we should all encourage them to keep on striking!
Steel and lumber mills might re-open in right to work states.
The “trade deficit” might be corrected.
The California union strikers will be unemployed, but who will really care?
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:40:52 PM PST
by
sarasmom
To: forgotten man
Oh, what WOULD we do if CLERICAL workers didn't show up to their so-called "Jobs"?
Maybe actually get something productive done?
The horror.
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posted on
11/28/2012 6:56:10 PM PST
by
boop
("I need another Cutty Sark"-LBJ)
To: sgtyork
I haven’t been involved on the docks in a number of years, but 30-35 moves per hour is flat out flying for a single crane operator, and the crews on dock, and aboard ship per crane, per hold, in feeding the hook. The hook is the focus.
Perhaps a couple of cranes, and a couple of crews on, and off the vessel are involved with that 45 moves per hour figure.
There’s much involved in loading, and unloading a vessel, and somebody getting creative with their figures for whatever reason isn’t of benefit to the industry overall.
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posted on
11/28/2012 7:57:02 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Clerical workers!!! Are they the ones who wear those white collars???
To: GeronL
You outsource a port by going on strike and have companies permanently move operations to Mexico.
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posted on
11/28/2012 8:22:15 PM PST
by
packrat35
(Admit it! We are almost ready to be called a police state!)
To: Bernard Marx
Yes, but those goods have to reach U.S. stores somehow, usually by truck.That's where you are wrong...
Mr. Buffet's Railroad.
To: Last Dakotan
I admit I overlooked the RR. Still, those goods have to get from central locations to the stores. Maybe there are enough non-union owner-operator truckers to do the job, maybe not.
To: DeaconBenjamin
There’s already a line up of container ships anchored offshore - I can see them from Huntington Beach. There was a strike several years ago at the port and I remember seeing about 40-50 of them out there then.
There’s about 10 that I can see from the beach here.
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posted on
11/29/2012 8:34:43 AM PST
by
So Cal Rocket
(Task 1: Accomplished, Task 2: Hold them Accountable!)
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