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.”
Denied the Opportunity
In Indianapolis, local contractors have been shut out of the bidding process to renovate a local hospital. The closed-bid process was foisted on construction plans by the union bosses. By closing competitive bidding, hospital construction costs will be 20 to 30% higher than needed and taxpayers will be left paying for the overruns. Rather than more hospital beds or better facilities, the hospital choice to give taxpayer funds to the union bosses. That is sick.
