The union representing 14,500 dockworkers in East and Gulf Coasts ports, including Philadelphia, and management for shipping lines and port employers are lurching toward a possible crippling strike next week.
The effects of such a strike can hardly be overrated as something like 65% of our imports pass through the eastern ports.
A Maine-to-Texas longshoremen's strike, called a coast-wide strike, would disrupt retailers' shipments of spring and summer merchandise, such as Easter shoes, home goods, swimwear, and patio furniture, and affect manufacturers, wholesalers, truck drivers, and farmers, the trade group said.
A major strike would affect thousands of jobs and cost the economy millions of dollars a day.
Thus far the possiblity of a strike has not received a great deal of attention though it is only 2 days away. Now the question becomes if a strike should occur will Obama step in and perhaps invoke Taft-Hartley? After all he's suibservient to the unions and his entire labor policy is devoted to doing their will.
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Thu Dec 27, 2012 4:39 pm
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