Posted on 10/08/2002 10:26:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Bush decided to order the Justice Department to seek the injunction after board of inquiry hand-picked by the White House reported that the two-week-old labor standoff has no chance of ending soon, said two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The board's brief report does not go into detail about the economic and national security impact of the shutdown, but it does hold out little hope for a resolution of the conflict, said one of the sources.
Your antiquated and erroneous assumption that the domestic manufacturing organized labor force is at fault is factually refuted in reply #70.
The union should compete in the free market like everyone else. If someone else is willing to sell their labor for less than the union demands, they should be able to work for the company (sell their labor). WITHOUT GETTING A BALLBAT UPSIDE THE HEAD.
Flipside, if someone doesn't want to work for the going market value for the labor they're providing, they're free to find another line of work.
Obviously, I have no respect for unions in their present form. They use thug tactics to enforce their monopoly on the labor pool, and fight any efficiencies inherent in the free market.
I live here and would DIE to make that much money!!! As to comparing it to Texas, I don't know. But honestly, there's probably more folks living here who make far less than that!
NO! The union workers are lazy. They don't want to expend the mental effort required to learn how to do the new job.
That is to say, the union workers are lazy.
That is to say, the union workers are lazy.
That is to say, the union workers are lazy.
That is to say, the union workers are lazy.
That is to say, the union workers are lazy.
The American workin' man has been replaced by the American Thinkin' man and some can't accept the change.
So, there should not be one local that is represented for all the west coast ports. Imagine if GM, Ford, Chrysler, and all the smaller auto makers, it's parts suppliers and others were represented by one local? Imagine if all steel companies were represented by one local??
Same goes to the management side. No one employer should represent all the interests of all west coast ports of entry.
If the union and management of a facility are at odds, then there should be a competitive alternative for both sides. If there's a strike/lockout in Oakland, shippers should have an alternative, just like a worker should have the alternative to work elsewhere if he doesn't like it, and just as management knows that it must negotiate for its own port to remain competitive with the shipper's alternatives.
Whether labor knows it or not, they're in big long term trouble, because past negotiations have been so onesided against management's competitiveness, that they're forcing bankruptcy, and huge unfunded pension liabilities, that defunct companies cannnot and will never pay.
So now government steps in, and forms a bailout of the unfunded pensions, and you know who now foots that bill------You Do!
That's good!
The key difference is that companies can struggle on with a new CEO when the old one decides he wants more money than the company is willing/able to pay. With the power of the union to prevent any replacement of them outside of an actual strike (and no permanent replacements in the event of a strike),..., most companies can't long survive when their union decides it wants more money than the company is willing/able to pay.
The state budget is -27 billion heading to -60 billion. Only the defense areas of the economy are now heading up. Unemployment is increasing. Gray Davis' positives are about 40%. And this strike is making it worse!
You're right; it's time to break it all up.
Ensenada. Operated by the Chinese, natch...
The last I heard, there is a port down on the west coast of Mexico that has been going like gangbusters since the lockout began.Ensenada. Operated by the Chinese, natch...
Do I need to put on my tinfoil hat before replying to this? <VBG>
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