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In reply to the discussion: Strikers Have Shut Down Two Of The Most Important Economic Gateways In The World—And It's Costing Th [View all]Teamster Jeff
(1,598 posts)42. K&R
Companies will lose loads of money all because they feel that they absolutely MUST outsource those union clerk jobs. It seems that management in the US doesn't even remember how to improve their bottom lines in ways other than outsourcing jobs or cutting pay/benefits.
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FarCenter
Dec 2012
OP
Do you know anything about the years-long struggle the Longshoremen have been having
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#16
Where would we be without our retail/service folk? Wouldn't it be interesting if WalMart's
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#7
If Hawaiians want better wages and working conditions, I suggest they suck it up! n/t
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#28
Suck it up! It's high time workers united and stared demanding to be treated right.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#25
"I'd think that anything that slows imports from the Far East would be a good thing"
Riftaxe
Dec 2012
#56
Maybe it will make some think opening up the steel plants again isn't all that crazy.
Whovian
Dec 2012
#61
Well, we know this strike is having an effect - the corporatist scabs have come out of the wordwork.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#67