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.”
Beware politicians touting “green jobs.” That has become the new code word for “union-only” jobs.
Look no further that Maryland Sens. Mikulski and Cardin touting new “Green Job Training in Maryland.” In fact, these taxpayer grants are going to the SEIU to train people in “green healthcare.” Unfortunately, green jobs just mean more green union dues money to the Big Labor bosses.
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.”
According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.
In 2014, with Right to Work attorneys’ help, Pam Harris and other home caregivers terminated schemes mandating union dues payment as a condition of receiving Medicaid reimbursements.