Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
Andy Stern’s Warped View
Andy Stern is living in a world of delusion. According to the soon-to-be retiring union boss and President Obama confidant, forced unionism “is the greatest middle-class, job-creating mechanism that we have ever had in America that doesn’t cost tax payers a dime.”
Is he kidding? From Project Labor Agreement kickback schemes to bailouts of mismanaged union pension funds, Big Labor has become a drain on taxpayers. Who was it that was rallying in front of the capitol building in Illinois this week chanting for higher tax rates for government union member raises? Public workers union bosses are bankrupting the country. Mr. Stern, who do you think pays their salaries and benefits packages?
