Posted on 09/30/2017 3:09:00 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
... Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage…
Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:
…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.
“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)
The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:
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The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.
The heavy hand of the law needs to land on those guys. Now.
Get military drivers in there. No pay for those union drivers, and tell them that since they refused to help their fellow citizens, no jobs for their union drivers during reconstruction
As it is pointed out in the article, President Trump needs to declare martial law, arrest the union leaders and tell the truckers if they don’t report for work to move supplies, they too will be jailed. And it wouldn’t be a bad idea to jail the Mayor of San Juan too.
As an aside, a few years ago our company decided to have it’s annual sales meeting in San Juan instead of Honolulu for a change. Let me tell you, you cannot compare San Juan with Hawaii, it is a dump by comparison. One of our sales guys wives had to be hospitalized while we were there. The hospital staff stole her jewelry and the medical care was so bad that the company chartered a private jet to fly her back to Atlanta for treatment. Yeah, PR is an American “possession,” but it is not America. We should stabilize the place, and let them vote independence for themselves, and cut them loose. When the Cuban Commies take over, they will finally realize just what a good deal they had while they were Americans. And we can “win again” by “repatriating” Senator Menendez and his PR buddy from Chicago, Congressman Luis Gutierrez.
Get military drivers in there. No pay for those union drivers, and tell them that since they refused to help their fellow citizens, no jobs for their union drivers during reconstruction
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RR engineers had threatened to strike, virtually shutting down ALL Commerce when then President H S Truman asked the grand question:
‘Since you want to shut the country down by not operating your trains, perhaps you all would love to get drafted into the US Army and earn about 25 bucks a month?
We have a schedule to keep and it will be kept, one way or the other....’
NOT an ‘exact’ quote but the gist of his message - which was taken to heart by the RR people — is correct.
Remember Katrina and the buses sitting in the parking lot. Same thing...The Union drivers said moving people wasn't in their contract.
Agree, 100%
work around them, hire scabs
End welfare in Puerto Rico. They will suddenly discover that they love catering to tourists and vacationers.
“work around them, hire scabs”
Why does anyone need to be hired? Why would these people (used loosly applying to teamsters) not help their fellow citizens during a natural disaster? That’s what (most) Americans do. They want statehood. More like welfare state hood.
10 years ago my husband had a job offer at a luxury hotel in San Juan. I got to accompany him on the interview trip. It is a dump. He turned down the job because I wouldn’t move there.
We went to PR for our honeymoon, 1979. San Juan was kind of dumpy even then. Beaches had dirty water. Many people walking around with pistols on their hips. We rented a car and traveled around the island. Felt a lot safer out of San Juan
It feels like ee are playing Tropico.
If ever Martial Law was justified, this is it.
The most hilarious answer to one of my questions about San Juan. “No, dogs are not allowed on the beach.” That was the ultimate deal breaker.
More proof Unions are obsolete and need to be banned and disbanded.
I use to be pro-private Unions but I now see that to be mistaken thought and not just because of this.
Apparently the communist party has ordered them not to distribute because they want cash money for skimming
Be sure to crave on their tombstones—killed by the Teamsters.
1980`s,union goons set fire to hotel DuPont in Puerto Rico......killed 98 people..Few survivors that were interviewers said they were told to stay away from the casino...The union knew what was going down...
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