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Businesses warn of 'coast wide port shutdown'...
FOXNEWS ^ | 12/25/12 | FOX

Posted on 12/25/2012 1:43:20 PM PST by Doogle

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To: Doogle

Compulsory unionism is a violation of rights, not a “new” right.


21 posted on 12/25/2012 3:10:06 PM PST by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

No what we need are American jobs.

American jobs.

Quit outsourcing, and bring back the jobs we have already exported. Use the tax code to balance the budget and to punish companies which export jobs.

Do this now. Our country will collapse if we do not.

Bring back US jobs. Now. Do not try to collapse the economy first, that will only further empower the left, and simply REPLACE US power with Chinese power — which none of us will like at all..

Bring back US jobs.

Now.


The most sane approach....we sure would not be dependent on longshoremen striking in the ports if we were self-producing

You dont need the ships if it ain’t being made in Communist China


22 posted on 12/25/2012 3:16:56 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Seems that the ones who understand little about the economy are economists)
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To: txhurl

I think it would happen anywhere. These guys mean to protect their jobs and enforce their demands by any means including violence, mayhem and destruction of property.

They collectivists and can’t act other way.


23 posted on 12/25/2012 4:01:12 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Fai Mao

Yeah, I can see that.

News at 11....


24 posted on 12/25/2012 4:02:02 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Doogle
Sounds like LOTS of great-paying jobs are going to become available, and to Hell with the Union Bailout when they need Taxpayers' money, again, to keep them solvent.

A Nationwide Strike by Unions would be one of the best opportunities to rid both Public and Private employment of corrupt DNC-Money Laundering slugs.

25 posted on 12/25/2012 4:04:26 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Doogle

25 workers have already walked of the docks. I understand rescue efforts are in progress.....


26 posted on 12/25/2012 4:05:21 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: txhurl

Have you seen, “On the Waterfront?”

And this is real.


27 posted on 12/25/2012 4:06:32 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We are so screwed.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I’d like to see those jobs snatched up and kept by RTW crews.

I’d like to think TX would be the union’s weakest link - let’s break that chain.


28 posted on 12/25/2012 4:26:29 PM PST by txhurl
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To: Doogle

Here’s an idea—let each state Governor (R) of course, call out the National Guard to protect the ports and hire non-union workers to do the jobs. Unions want a fight—give it to them.


29 posted on 12/25/2012 5:18:11 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The unions will drive this port biz to Mexico and it will come up via Mexican truckers.


30 posted on 12/25/2012 5:20:18 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation
West Coast and Gulf Coast Mexican ports have been expanding as fast as they can to take up the slack from congested and stifled American ports. They have unions but Mexican unions don't strike--they know what's good for them.

US longshoreman get four times what Mexican longshoremen get--and shippers from Asia and across the Atlantic are not stupid.

31 posted on 12/25/2012 6:20:43 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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West Coast and Gulf Coast Mexican ports have been expanding as fast as they can to take up the slack from congested and stifled American ports. They have unions but Mexican unions don't strike--they know what's good for them.

US longshoreman get four times what Mexican longshoremen get--and shippers from Asia and across the Atlantic are not stupid.

32 posted on 12/25/2012 6:27:51 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: txhurl

Stevedores make teamsters look like kittens.

And, it takes more than a walk on job to swing those containers around.

I am sure they could find qualified replacements. I would not want to be a scab in that crowd. I like my teeth.


33 posted on 12/25/2012 7:44:50 PM PST by Vermont Lt (We are so screwed.)
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To: Doogle

You can bet your ass I look for the union label when I shop. Parasites.


34 posted on 12/25/2012 8:21:00 PM PST by glock rocks (Pro Deo et Constitutione - Libertas aut Mors)
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To: Doogle

Are any ports Union-free? If so, they should train extra workers so they can take over operations at another port so that the second port can fire all the Union people.


35 posted on 12/26/2012 1:49:27 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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