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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (3189)9/30/2002 9:29:07 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) of 57110
 
As with the Boeing workers, they're presenting this as a question of job security, not wages. It seems the mechanization of the ports has made a number of the longshoreman positions unnecessary.

My own experience with the longshoreman's union was back in 1978. I worked for several days on the docks in Beaumont, Texas. I recall the crew boss telling us to slow down and don't work so hard.

American labor at its best.
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