Port politics starves military, costs growers and energy producers

Canada Free Press ^ | 04/22/15 | A. Dru Kristenev

[Sean_Anthony]

Between the egotistical unions, misguided misinformed environmentalists and pushover government bureaucrats, free enterprise is under fire and our men and women at arms are underfed. Few things are more despicable

It wasn’t enough that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union targeted Portland container-terminals run by ICTSI Oregon, effectually shutting down Terminal 6 by goading Hapag Lloyd into closing operations which supplied 20% of Portland’s container traffic. Hanjin, which began servicing the U.S. Army after World War II, had already abandoned the port taking 80% of T-6’s traffic with it, but the shortsighted union stranded inland farmers and backstabbed the military.

The years-long dispute appeared to be the continuation of “a job guarantee sought by members… who want the same protection they say the Port has already included in the lease agreement with ICTSI Oregon, Inc., the company that operates Terminal 6,” according to Dan Pippenger, port general manager of marine operations in 2012. After other West Coast ports accepted a five-year contract, the Portland chapter of San Francisco-based ILWU dug-in over the same core demand—job guarantee. Envy appears to be the underlying issue prompting the strike in that the union wants what the other guy has and is willing to throw a tantrum to get it.

[econjack]

It’s criminal that union selfishness would knowingly starve our troops performing an act of selflessness that protects that very same union’s freedom to “peaceably assemble.”

You're assuming: 1) they care, and 2) they can think.

[armydawg505]

Who believes liberals think of the common good? Who believes Obama would ever do anything to get these duds back to work?

[Slambat]

“Between the egotistical unions, misguided misinformed environmentalists and pushover government bureaucrats, free enterprise is under fire and our men and women at arms are underfed. Few things are more despicable”

“It wasn’t enough that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union targeted Portland container-terminals run by ICTSI Oregon, effectually shutting down Terminal 6”

The real reason for the Trans-Texas corridor was to bypass
the west coast ports and their greedy socialist unions.