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Cargo backlog still clogs West Coast ports
USA TODAY ^
| 10/24/02
| Michelle Kessler and Jim Hopkins
Posted on 10/24/2002 10:33:33 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SAN FRANCISCO
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: docks
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
F*&%ing unions. They do not care about this country and are a bunch of communists!!
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"Parts for Kia cars may soon be hard to find unless the company starts receiving shipments soon." Well, that's it, then. It WILL be a lousy Christmas. BTW, how exactly is a shortage of Kia parts different from the norm?
Michael
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Our union loving press has never to my knowledge explained what this strike is really about. Sure as hell ain't pay, these suckers already make six figures and full bennies, have been offered a pay hike to boot.
Limbaugh simplified it well: barcodes. UPS, Federal Express, etc all use them on packages. When you see the UPS man scan your package that tells their central computer. This is done at every transhipment point and that's why they can tell you immediately where any given package in their system is. By union rule, this is still done with paper manifests on the docks, lest the overpaid union thug doing that job lose his birdnest on the ground if computers make his useless job utterly redundant.
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10/24/2002 11:06:56 AM PDT
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barkeep
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