By Bob Walsh
The longshoremen at all the ports between Maine and Texas
walked off the job at midnight east coast time last night, effectively
shutting down a great deal of commerce.
The
media asked Senile Joe if he would use Taft-Hartley and order them back
to work. He said flat-out NO, that he regarded this as a labor
relations issue. Lunchbox Joe is a good union man (at least sort of).
The longshoremen want a 70% raise over six years with guarantees
regarding no further mechanization and computerization of the ports. I
strongly suspect they will get very little action on that issue.
The
talking heads are saying that if this goes on more than a very few days
the back-up will be very hard to deal with for several times longer
than the strike itself runs. Also we are getting into the delivery
schedule for Christmas. In a very short while we will have trouble
buying cheap Chinese crap for Christmas presents.
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