Dockworkers Strike...
Reading this story just makes me angry, and according to the CNN survey 65% of those voting feel that the union longshoreman are overpaid.
money.cnn.com
From the article:
"ILWU members are among the best-paid blue-collar workers in the nation. PMA figures show longshoremen earned an average of $82,895 last year, while clerks earned an average of $118,844 and foremen, who are members of the union, earned an average of $157,352."
A solution to the strike might be to *fire* all of the union employees, and offer the job instead to all of the primary care physicians in California. The longshoreman make more money than the average primary care physician and they don't have to juggle a practice, night call, the various problems with payments from insurers, and they don't pay malpractice insurance. They haven't experienced the joys of nights without sleep, dealing with a newborn who is septic as well as phone calls from a parent who feels head lice that they found in their daughter's hair is an emergency at 2:00 a.m.
I really thought this strike would be resolved today...and IMO it is time to take some action to resolve this situation. |
