Posted on 12/25/2012 1:43:20 PM PST by Doogle
As if Superstorm Sandy and the looming fiscal crisis weren't enough, a potential strike by thousands of dock workers from Boston to Houston threatens to shock the economy as early as this weekend.
Business groups and state officials in recent days have called on President Obama to intervene, and use emergency powers to "avoid a coast wide port shutdown." They warn it could cost billions, citing estimates that a 10-day port lockout in 2002 cost $1 billion a day -- and caused a major backlog in shipments.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is the latest to enter the fray and call for White House intervention. But a port strike would affect more than the East and Gulf coasts, where all these ports are located. It could choke supply chains across the country. Groups ranging from the automobile industry to the National Retail Federation to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Cheese Importers Association of America are warning of dire consequences.
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Compulsory unionism is a violation of rights, not a “new” right.
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
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.
Yeah, I can see that.
News at 11....
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 workers have already walked of the docks. I understand rescue efforts are in progress.....
Have you seen, “On the Waterfront?”
And this is real.
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.
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.
The unions will drive this port biz to Mexico and it will come up via Mexican truckers.
US longshoreman get four times what Mexican longshoremen get--and shippers from Asia and across the Atlantic are not stupid.
US longshoreman get four times what Mexican longshoremen get--and shippers from Asia and across the Atlantic are not stupid.
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.
You can bet your ass I look for the union label when I shop. Parasites.
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.
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