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These guys are costing us $2billion A DAY by shutting down the ports. And that number is expected to accelerate if the shutdown last more than a couple of weeks as various manufacturing industries SHUT DOWN because there's no where for their product to go.

Do the math again, regarding the 10,500 times say $125,000 average per worker, I get less than 1.4 billion a year. Why are the owners of the shipping yards crippling the economy when they could satisfy the unions with less than one days' loss to pay all of the workers for the entire year?

The onwers AREN'T. It's the union that started this as a work slowdown (so they could claim the high ground by not quite striking) because they don't want the new tracking systems (which could arguably cost a handful of jobs, maybe, though not actually longshoreman jobs). You've gotta get over this unreasoning hatred of everybody in charge of a business, they aren't all out to get you... can't necessarily say that about the unions though.