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The point is there is no "real" reason to strike. New technology is expected to decrease the number of workers needed at the docks. Rather than do what is rational and accept technological advances, the union bosses and their spoiled rotten Luddite Red Diaper baby rank and file want garaunteed jobs for life with no lateral movements in occupations.

There are myriad reasons why this "work stoppage" is a joke. BS statements about "foreign workers" taking American jobs at US ports ain't one of 'em.

They're not striking. They're being locked out. I didn't say that foreign workers were going to take the jobs, I said that the foreign companies would prefer to bring in minimum wage workers to replace the longshoremen and clerks. In California, minimum wage workers means illegal aliens for the most part. Illegals have taken over too many jobs already, why give them more jobs on the docks?