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2014-06-26 Economy

Billions at risk as West Coast port contract nears end

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Why aren't the anti trust laws used against the union since it has a defacto monopoly on the labor.

Just curious.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-06-26 01:14|| 2014-06-26 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, look at it this way, there's all sorts of illegal slaves now to replace the dock workers. Isn't our new Obama Slave class wonderful?

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-06-26 01:51|| 2014-06-26 01:51|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure O & Co won't let this opportunity go to waste.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-26 03:57|| 2014-06-26 03:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing all of this turmoil and unhappiness is taking place here in the States.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-26 05:42|| 2014-06-26 05:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Less(Far less, think Impeachment.)than two year remaining for Obama to screw things up, vote Republican and end this Obamafuckup.

Posted by Redeck Jim 2014-06-26 07:00|| 2014-06-26 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 With the Chinese expanding the Panama canal (for future shipping to the Gulf and East Coast) and the Mexicans actually expanding their shipping and rail system south of San Diego, this may be the last chance to ~~extort~~ make gains for the lower skill laborers who (like their brethren in Detroit) are making far more than likewise skilled workers elsewhere in the economy.

Not that we couldn't do without the lifeline of loads of Chinese plastic trinkets and textiles for long. Maybe if some of that stuff was actually manufactured Stateside, some of the business wouldn't be subject to such supply interruption.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-26 09:11|| 2014-06-26 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Combine this with the news that port deepening projects got the green light, and I see a lot more ships heading Gulf/East Coast.

Posted by BA 2014-06-26 09:47|| 2014-06-26 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 This has always been the problem with unions. They demand and demand until the company can't pay them anymore. Then business goes elsewhere and everyone that was in the union is out of a job.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-06-26 11:31|| 2014-06-26 11:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The dock workers in SF have always been led by Commie agitators. Harry Bridges.

Posted by Vespasian Oppressor of the Visigoths8235 2014-06-26 13:48|| 2014-06-26 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Didn't that operations/security contract go to Oman? Good time to drive up the cost, reduce the revenue and bring it back home.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-06-26 17:09|| 2014-06-26 17:09|| Front Page Top

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