Outsourcing?
For years, we’ve been told by the Bush administration that America’s ports likely are among major targets for terrorist attacks. Portland, Ore., longshore worker Dawn Des Brisay told the AFL-CIO in 2004 she has “concerns about basic security issues. There is not enough focus on inspecting containers and checking their security seals.”John Bowers, president of the Longshoremen (ILA), a union that represents thousands of longshore workers in ports from Maine to Texas, joins many members of Congress in asking for hearings and a new federal review of the United Arab Emirates-owned company taking control of major U.S. ports.