Posted on 02/15/2015 11:27:41 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Containers collecting at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., because of the slowdown at West Coast ports following stalled contract negotiations between port operators and unions.
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President Obama plans to send Labor Secretary Tom Perez to California to attempt to break the labor deadlock and end the shipping slowdown at 29 West Coast cargo ports, according to news reports Saturday.
Shipping has been subjected to delays during stalled contract negotiations between unions and the association representing shipping companies and port operators.
The White House says it is intervening because the strike has hurt imports and exports of many commercial goods, from citrus fruits to automobile parts, according to a Reuters report.
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Just curious, has anyone ever just bought a bunch of waterfront land and made their own port to avoid these jackasses?
He w I’ll intervene on the side of the unions. From what I’ve read, dock workers are one- percenters or darn close, but they are PC , so no matter. Viva le NLRB! /S
Oh thank God, Obama is stepping to save the world!
All of our troubles with those pesky dock workers is going to be resolved.
He’ll only make the situation worse.
I read these guys make over 100 thou a year and pay no out of pocket for med.None.
F’em
In a sane world, all those containers in the picture would be filled with American-made products headed for overseas ports.
The Party Boss will address the party members.
Must not be an important issue for the republicans.
At least obama is on top of what is important to America. s/
Aren’t the Mexicans building a port?
Oooh, Obama’s sending in the big guns to ensure that unions get everything they want.
LOL. Obama gonna “fix” it, chillun! Don’t you fret now!
Robots. Then, those young people in California that want a good paying job, but don’t want to go to college, can go thank the union and the Democrat Party.
They need to quit calling it the Democrat Party and call it what it is.....the old hippy party trying to enslave younger generations.
Approx 157,000.00 is what I have heard-outrageous!
I was thinking the same thing a few days ago when I heard about this. Why can’t a wealthy individual purchase waterfront and start his or her own port. Perhaps I may be wrong in my thinking, but if we produce our own food and products no need to ship them across the water. We would have everything here, but nooooo.
CA, Oregon and WA are all forced-union states.
got me
“Just curious, has anyone ever just bought a bunch of waterfront land and made their own port to avoid these jackasses?”
They’ll do it in Mexico soon enough.
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