The 50,000 members of the Longshoremen’s Association are on strike. They are overpaid and should be shown the exit door and according to Justin O. Smith over at American Thinker who wrote: “The United States Maritime Alliance could and should fire all the strikers and union president Harold Daggett and tell them to go pound sand. Get management working the docks with new hires to get the job done and bring it up to speed, even if it goes slower than normal initially, so long as the ships get unloaded and food, medicines, and other necessities of life keep moving into the U.S. economy, in order to avert a national security crisis manufactured by collectivists and communists without love for America, and to let Americans breathe a collective sigh of relief.” There is plenty of incentive to fire the striking workers because, after all, if they are on strike, they are refusing to work. If they are fired for refusing to work it will be because of their oown actions and they should think about what could happen if they are opposed. Then again, maybe the longshoremen are wrong. They are making scads of money already, from $85,000 to $200,000 a year and they probably have several back-up plans to keep on earning money while they are on strike…
In addition since the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States includes all navigable waters within the country which certainly includes and ships curently afloat so it’s 100% certain that the government can issue orders that cover ships that are afloat that have cargo to be unloaded or loaded. It’s almost certain that there are multiple ways to respond to a longshoreman strike which the longshoremen should have considered before walking off the job or refusing to work as they have contracted. BYW. The Union Boss leading the strike is Harold Daggett who was paid $728,000 last year. Perhaps Donald Trump can solve the strikers delemma so everyone is satisfied and remember that everyone includes the consumers who will be inconvenienced by the strikes.
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