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.”
Boeing has been a huge Washington State employer for decades but the union bosses and their friends in the legislature have the company looking elsewhere. Apparently Boeing is considering moving parts of its production to South Carolina or Texas — both Right to Work states. A recent letter to the editor in the Everett Herald newspaper implores the state leadership to enact a Right to Work law in the Evergreen State for keep losing production jobs to other areas of the country.
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.”
... States that continuously lacked Right to Work protections for employees from 2012-23 lost a net total of $2.05 trillion in cumulative AGI solely as a consequence of domestic out-migration of taxpayers during that 11-year period.
One of the key goals of the U.S. Department of Labor since President Donald Trump’s second term commenced in January 2025 has been to expand the number of apprenticeships in America to “at least a million.”