Please post your proof of this, or please admit it is only your opinion.
He has no proof. The United States Maritime Alliance controls the jobs at most ports on the East Coast of the US. And the workers at those ports are represented by the Int'l Longshoreman's Association (ILA).
In 2004 the USMA and the ILA signed a comprehensive labor contract with a term for 6 years, covering every port that ILA works in.. which is most of them from Maine to Houston.
A Port Operator is a vendor. It's laughable to think he's going to ripup the universal labor contract and start hiring his friends on the cheap.
It's funny for two reasons
1 - Like the ILA would allow that to happen.. they'd shut down the ports before giving inch of their contract back
2 - That the port would have the authortiy anyway.. it doesn't
It's my opinion. I thought that the fact that I posted it made it clear it was my opinion. My opinion is based on the fact that after working for private industry, cities, states and the Federal government, the controlling entity usually has some say in who does the hiring. Please post your proof that the controlling company doesn't have any influence over who gets hired.