Teamsters, you rock. Oh, wait. No you don’t. Some carrier from the Orient has said they are DONE with portland, oregon due to slow downs and sometimes no activity at all when trying to offload or onload and will no longer be using portland for any of their business. So, how cost effective is it to do the Panama Canal transit and go to the Gulf Coast or even the east coast ports?
Overpaid dock workers, not even bothering to do the job they have today, want to get more money to probably not do the job they have tomorrow. Average pay with benefits tops $150,000 a year for each of the primadonnas.
Fire the commie slugs!
The Longshoremen, being a large, well-funded and politically active union know that Obama and his crew will have their back, no matter how much chaos they create in the US economy.
Here’s a better link to the whole story w/o clicking through multiple pages
Unfortunately, this article answers nothing.
Ironically, I just sent an email to someone addressing the lack of attention to the actual causes of the just-announced Hanjin pullout of Port of Portland, which include a combination of lack of chassis, lack of trains and, of course, obamacare & contract negotiations.
I’m still looking for a decent analysis of the whole situation...
In Isaac Asimov’s series “Foundation”, one of his early indications of collapse of the Empire was the failure of goods and energy transport from where it was produced to where it was consumed.
Also the flow was one direction, to prosperous planets and/or cities.
Classic 50’s SciFi with little or no female characters but an interesting view considering the state of our worldwide economy.