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Puerto Rico Teamsters Union Refuse to Deliver Supplies Use Hurricane Maria as Contract Leverage…
Conservative Tree House ^ | Sept 30, 2017 | Sundance

Posted on 09/30/2017 3:10:33 PM PDT by HarleyLady27

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)

Meanwhile, amid floods and lack of power the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, finds a way to get propaganda T-Shirts to politicize the tragedy on very fake news CNN.

Go figure.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biglabor; corruption; crime; hurricane; news; puertorico; society; unions
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To: HokieMom
😡👸🏼. Apparently not enough or fast enough for the Libs. 🚚🛳✈️🚛
41 posted on 09/30/2017 3:54:42 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: HarleyLady27

Time to bring in the Military and Deliver the goods. Go around those idiots..


42 posted on 09/30/2017 3:55:05 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: HarleyLady27

Do they want someone to come unscrew the caps on their waterbottles for them,too?


43 posted on 09/30/2017 3:56:39 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: HokieMom

And just how are nuclear submarines able to assist in this effort?


44 posted on 09/30/2017 3:57:30 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Seems like an odd assertion, agreed. Probably erroneous.


45 posted on 09/30/2017 3:58:10 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: HarleyLady27

send in military Moter pool Drivers and put those involved in using this to squeeze for more money on a list of people that cant be used by companies that have government contracts.

I think that is about the most that can be done about the situation.


46 posted on 09/30/2017 3:58:57 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: mountn man

where in that document does it says to send aid to PR ?


47 posted on 09/30/2017 3:58:59 PM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: HarleyLady27

Draft all the Teamsters who refuse to drive. Pay them as Army Privates. If they refuse to drive, send them to Afghanistan.


48 posted on 09/30/2017 3:59:03 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Interesting. teamsters union here on US is getting volunteer union drivers to head down there.

I’ve seen this action at a teamster strike at a local factory. Main teamster office on E. Coast had to send out officials to W. Coast to straighten out the local boss to end the strike. Strike ended as soon as the big guys showed up.


49 posted on 09/30/2017 4:00:59 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Jim Shoe
If I was Trump I’d do what Regan did to the flight controllers. Tell them to show up at work or be fired and then hire non-union people.

Exactly, plus in a declared disaster zone. The Gov. of PR can't let americans be held for ransom. I expect this will be resolved quickly. Which way, dunno.

50 posted on 09/30/2017 4:01:09 PM PDT by existtoexcel
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To: Thumper1960

Are you an American?
Really?


51 posted on 09/30/2017 4:02:50 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: ealgeone
Can't do that. The Left needs these union truckers to strike so the crisis intensifies and then can be blamed on Trump.

They're carrying the water for the MSM's hype that this "debacle" in Puerto Rico is all Trump's fault because "he negatively controlled the weather by dropping out of Paris global warming thing, he's incompetent, he only likes whites and hangs with white supremacists, and we just need any excuse to impeach him over this disaster."

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52 posted on 09/30/2017 4:03:12 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HarleyLady27

We are hearing a great deal out of Puerto Rico except what the Puerto Ricons are doing to help themselves. Sounds like a lot of waiting around for the sugar daddy USA to come and handle most everything.


53 posted on 09/30/2017 4:07:01 PM PDT by Will88
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To: HarleyLady27

Did someone say shoot Teamsters on sight?


54 posted on 09/30/2017 4:09:22 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: mountn man

In light of the devastation, two major hurricanes in less than a month, the need for martial law seems reasonable. In that case, I see no problem with using extraordinary means to save lives and prevent needless suffering or sabotage


55 posted on 09/30/2017 4:10:40 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Repeal The 17th
Are you?
56 posted on 09/30/2017 4:11:23 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: HarleyLady27

That whining San Juan mayor must not know this is the reason for supplies not being delivered. It’s not Trump’s fault!


57 posted on 09/30/2017 4:13:11 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: mountn man
Timidity in the face of the enemy is cowardice.

Remember that.

58 posted on 09/30/2017 4:13:58 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: HarleyLady27

You know, I’m getting more than a bit fed up with all this stuff - I saw the mayor of San Jaun on the tv crying and screaming... “you’re KILLING us, with all your inefficiency and beurocracy blah blah blah blah” ...

I’m offended that anybody thinks this is my fault!


59 posted on 09/30/2017 4:15:00 PM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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To: Thumper1960

Yes, I am.
Apparently the difference between you and I is that
I don’t want the military arresting or shooting civilians.


60 posted on 09/30/2017 4:16:07 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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