The shipping lines offered to reopen the West Coast ports if the union agreed to a 90-day contract extension to finalize the new contract, Sugerman said.
``It is time to settle this contract dispute,'' PMA President Joseph Miniace said in a letter to union president James Spinosa. ``This is a $1 billion offer ... Let's open the ports tomorrow. It's time to put the nation's interests ahead of ours.''
This makes my blood boil. The whole country should be outraged that 10,000 selfish SOBs are costing jobs all over the world. Bush needs to bust these !#& @$ and make sure no union can ever hold this country hostage again.