[Orion]

Dream on. I find it amazing that FReepers become big-gov't jackboots when unions are involved.

If the work is so damned important, pay the longshoremen what they want, and be done with it.

If the work isn't important enough to keep management from locking out the workers, then why have the gov't step in and start pointing guns?

You statist FReepers amaze me.

[sarasmom]

Give it a rest. You are conversing with the adults here.I grew up in car-town union central.I wittnessed the self-destruction of the US labor pool.

My brother is a union steward, and I have heard his rants about worthless,drunken workers he is forced to defend against all logic and fairness.But he will not take a stand for management-lest the EVIL owners regain controll of the company they sweated blood to bring into life.

There is no "cure" for willfull stupidity.

Are we a free country or have we devolved into socialism?

[Mariner]

"Statist FReepers"

I was not suggesting that govt interfere in a labor dispute, just that they will use troops to ensure the movement of military cargo........and that they would jail anyone who interferes with that.

Right or wrong.

I consider it both undesirable and unlikely that the govt will intervene in the commercial dispute.