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.”
The New York Times is a company that is hurting financially. Revenue is down. In economic parlance — they are “downsizing” to meet fiscal obligations. There are thoughts that the paper will need to declare bankruptcy to stave off creditors. So does anyone really want to take economic advice from someone whose policies have driven the company to the brink of financial ruin?
Yet, there goes the Times, in an op/ed, forcefully demanding passage of the Card Check Scam Bill. Claiming that any increase in unionism — forced or otherwise — is good economics, the paper calls the Card Check Scam Bill “vital legislation.” We all know the bill is “vital” for the union bosses — it’s the workers who don’t want to be coerced into a union.
We now know that in addition to nearly financially bankrupt, when it comes to forced unionism, the New York Times is morally bankrupt, as well.
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.”