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What the Looming Port Strike Is Really About

akevitz Wrote: Dec 23, 2012 7:05 PM

I've been thinking we needed to pull the plug on all this situtation and have a "do over" maybe this will be the way. It will be painfull. Afterall pulling off the bandaid hurts. I think we can rise to the crisis, afterall we are Americans. What we don't have we invent. So let them strike and some new company will start up and we might not need them anymore.

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What the Looming Port Strike Is Really About

It's not about jobs. It's not about safety. It's not about improving dockworkers' living standards. The looming, long-planned East and Gulf Coast port strikes are about protecting Big Labor's archaic work practices and corrupt waterfront rackets.

Are you ready for a fiscal cliff? The union bosses of an estimated 14,500 workers at 15 ports are preparing to send the economy plunging back into recession over productivity and efficiency rules changes. You read that right. Much more on that in a moment. But first, here's what's at stake.

The International Longshoremen's Association's (ILA) grip extends from Boston to Texas to Florida and all points...

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