[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[SamAdams76]

They should all get fired so far as I'm concerned.

Trying to run a business here in NY area and we've been dealing with backorders for weeks now because of this stupid "slowdown".

Fire them all and bring in non-union workers.

[smoothsailing]

Make California a Right-to-Work state, problem goes away.

[Paladin2]

Can we say; “F the west cost union stevedores”?

[MUDDOG]

The container ships radically simplified the job of loading and unloading ships, and thereby greatly weakened the longshoreman's union.

It's not "On the Waterfront" any more.

[G Larry]

Unions don’t give a damn about their members.

The difference between Union leadership and Mobsters is nil.

[cherry]

those guys make about $150,000 a year...cry me a river
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[Bogey78O]

The ILWU grandstands all the time. Screw them. If they used their clout to help their workers instead of pushing leftists political causes they might get some sympathy but all they do is screw up everyone’s day because they want to throw temper tantrums.

[LucyT]

Ping.

[familyop]

It’s been slowing down anyway. Large numbers of unused container ships were docked around China and scrapped several years ago.

[Blue Collar Christian]

But Obama says the economy is improving significantly, thanks to him.

[Rodamala]

Wait until the Panama Canal expansion is done... then you'll see a west coast port slowdown.

Sidenote investing tip: BNSF and UP derive a lot of revenue moving shipping containers full of cheap Chinese plastic fake vomit and x-ray glasses east on doublestack trains.

[rrrod]

lowlife union scum alert!