Posted on 11/30/2012 1:26:45 PM PST by ColdOne
California may find itself in a disastrous fiscal situation, but that won’t stop California’s newly-empowered unions from flexing their muscle. In the aftermath of the failure of Proposition 32, which would have prevented public sector unions from funding politicians, the unions are celebrating their confirmed power by striking. The latest strikes started today with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63, which shut down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the busiest ports in the United States.
Even though November traffic remains slow at the ports, that doesn’t mean the economic effect will be mitigated. These ports handle approximately 40% of America’s imports.
Shockingly, the strike doesn’t include dockworkers – it’s just the clerical staff at the union, which has now set up picket lines at the terminals at the Port of Los Angeles. The 50,000-member union supports the strikers; 10,000 dockworkers did refuse to cross the picket lines.
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Texas has ports.
I think that if you follow the post trail, you’ll find this inclusion in the post I responded to.
“They are a bunch of liberals who support the Union scum.”
Prop 32, being a union specific measure, seemed a good initiative to touch on to gauge just how much Californians are supportive of Union scum.
That’s why I addressed it in my response.
Take care...
Once the Panama Canal widening project is finished...and bigger ships can go thru the Canal....the West Coast unionzied ports will be used less as shipping can use Southeastern US ports...
This may be the last hurrah for the West Coast Ports and their Unions.
You’re right Jim, its truly scary; Obama is determined to bring “Cuba” her in a big way.
But there is still a sharp difference between unions here and in Cuba. In Cuba the unions have contributed little to financing the political process, while here they are the biggest engine. That is especially what is wrong here in California.
Can you say, “Lazaro Cardenas” boys and girls? Remember when (typically short-sighted) Republicans thought the Trans Texas Corridor was treasonous?
I doubt that. Especially if you subtract fraud, multiple votes, the dead, illegal aliens, he'd probably have lost by 10%
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