[2banana]

Right before the big Christmas push.

And they will wonder why Mexican ports get so much business.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Commie union Neanderthals are such a bunch of crybaby whiners. One tantrum after another. No wonder they don’t have any time to do the jobs they’re hired to do.

[Grams A]

I think I would tell them I’d see them after January 1, 2013, and enjoy your extended vacation.

[tbpiper]

they want new contracts to protect workers against outsourcing jobs abroad.

If the job is to unload ships in Lng Beach, how can that be outsourced,i.e., how can someone in India unload a ship in California?

[GeronL]

Just replace them...

wait.. how do you outsource a port??

[forgotten man]

Clerical workers? Let me guess. They want hundreds of clerical workers to add up columns of numbers with an adding machine instead of one clerical worker using a computer.

[goodnesswins]

Stop Electing DEMOCRATS you dummies....the cost of business in the U.S. is so high causing companies to LOOK for BETTER OPTIONS elsewhere....

[Dallas59]

What would they like? $120 an hour (up from $80) to drive a forklift all day?

[vetvetdoug]

It would be fitting if the Police and LE would strike in the area where these folks are striking. Any bets how ugly it would get?

[tomkat]

             

[arthurus]

Strikes should become now a plague. the Unions think the Left has won and they can do what the left đoes when the old order falls or begins to fall. They try to get as much of the remains as they can and they think the New Leninist Regime will cheer them on. It precedes nationalization, real nationalization.

[VeniVidiVici]

Awww. Unions screwing over Americans at Christmas.

How cute!!

[RetiredTexasVet]

Probably something like the Hostess deal where drivers couldn’t drive a truck with both bread and confections on board which complimented the people who couldn’t load bread and confections. Probably something just as serious in the small minds of the union officials. Hell, get them all fired if necessary to uphold their principles, no matter how flawed.

[sarasmom]

Both UPS and FEDEX cargo planes routinely “move” finished products/palleted loads, without going through California’s shipping ports.
Major airports also have customs agents.
It’s often cheaper and more efficient for established manufacturers and their dealers/retailers network with finished products.
Let them all strike! Shut the California shipping ports down completely for several months!
The container ships will re-route deliveries to Canada or Mexico.
It may even eventually end up being more cost equalising for bulk container materials to go through customs twice before reaching a USA business warehouse.
OR
It will become more attractive to invest in manufacturing facilities inside the USA instead of China!

Strike on, California union shipyard clerical staff and dockworkers!
The jobs you overpriced, will open up better ones for non-union citizens in the rest of the USA, Mexico, and Canada!

I think we should all encourage them to keep on striking!
Steel and lumber mills might re-open in right to work states.
The “trade deficit” might be corrected.

The California union strikers will be unemployed, but who will really care?

[Uncle Chip]

Clerical workers!!! Are they the ones who wear those white collars???

[So Cal Rocket]

There’s already a line up of container ships anchored offshore - I can see them from Huntington Beach. There was a strike several years ago at the port and I remember seeing about 40-50 of them out there then.

There’s about 10 that I can see from the beach here.