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If the port management authority thought that they could get public opinion on their side by locking out the union workers and forcing this shutdown, I would suggest that their timing simply stinks.

If they had forced this issue even three years ago, most people would have looked at the dockworkers and blamed them for the entire problem.

However, since the NASDAQ has dropped from 5000 to 1200, and since Enron and Global Crossing and Tyco and how many other companies have imploded, and since crooked CEO's and CFO's are buying themselves $100 million mansions in Florida to protect themselves against the inevitable judgements against them, I would suggest that the American public simply isn't interested in listening to management's side of the story.

As far as I'm concerned, let this strike shut down the whole freakin' economy. The management class of this country have pushed things far too far, far too hard, for far too long now. I don't think the union is the problem here, I think the rapacious CEO's and CFO's are the problem, and I think that the time is long overdue for some serious union activity all over this country, in every industry.

In fact, I'm thinking about contacting some unions and seeing what I can do to bring unions to the high-tech industry. Five years ago I was as anti-union as it was possible to be. Now I want to join one. Funny how unlimited rapaciousness on the part of the power elite can change a person's views.