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[Texas Eagle]

So Unions are hypocritical, two-faced, double-talking, back-stabbing, frauds.

Who'da thunk it?

[Ferris]

The association wants the right to introduce new technology to speed cargo handling,

The union is against increased efficiency for the business of getting goods to YOU...

They are attempting to hold the free mrket hostage to protect their own jobs as those jobs become increasingly less necessary... And therefore more expensive... To YOU...

The added pain that this shut down will cause to the American economy and it's businesses that rely on just in time inventory will shock the sheeple...

One day, conscious humans will realize that unions are part of the problem, not part of the solution...

[Cacique]

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[Spyder]

I got stuck with a liberal (self-described socialist) last night actually discussing these "poor dockworkers who had been locked out of their jobs!" She also was saying the horrible companies actually wanted to hire independent contractors so they wouldn't have to pay benefits. I asked her didn't she think someone making $100K per year could pay for their own insurance. She dithered a bit and then said she didn't believe they all made $100K and started into the "what about when they retire?" stuff.

Some of the libs just make it too easy.

And no, I couldn't really avoid her. Her husband and mine share an office - he's an NPR kind of guy and mine plays Rush in his down time.

[heleny]

Mexico's ports and roads cannot handle the cargo, Canadian longshoremen won't unload the diverted ships

What about increasing the number of ships sent directly to Canada from Asia or whatever? They're not "diverted." Truckers and trains would deliver the goods from Canada to wherever they were supposed to go, and bring US products and food for export back to the Canadian docks.

and East Coast ports are unavailable because the Panama Canal is too small to handle the huge Pacific ships.

Could some cargo (as much as they can handle... not necessarily all) be unloaded in Mexico or some central American country, trucked across, and then shipped to the East coast of the US?

[cryptical]

This is why the Homeland Security Department shouldn't be unionized.

[Lion's Cub]

Actually, these guys are playing right into Bush's hand. We'll stop importing stuff from Asia (especially China), and manufacturing will move into Central & South America. It's going there already.

[yoe]

Are the Longshoremen playing for the DNC? Is this a Daschle plan? If Unions such as this can strike during Wartime, then some of the rules have to be changed. I think the strike doesn't pass the smell test; something else is going on. What more can these workers want, palaces like those of Saddam? A pretty greedy bunch and totally unpatriotic.

[ampat]

The unions' time is over. All they are now are money repositories for organized crime and corrupt...uuh all politicians.