Times must be tough. An escalating dispute between two unions ties up millions of dollars of freight across the Northwest boils down to a spat over just two waterfront jobs, The Oregonian is reporting. Bill Wyatt said Longshoremen staging a slowdown at the region’s biggest international cargo hub are contesting the equivalent of two full-time positions devoted to plugging, unplugging and monitoring refrigerated containers. The Longshoremen, who are causing mile-long lines of trucks outside the port’s Terminal 6, sued the terminal operator this week to get the work being done by members of an electricians’ union.
In 2018, federal records show that government union boss Witold Skwierczynski was banned from federal offices for alleged gross misconduct. Nevertheless, he continued to get paid by taxpayers to conduct union business!
National Right to Work Foundation offers free legal aid to hotel industry employees nationwide after widespread abuse by UNITE HERE officials
A key part of the Biden program to redefine tens of millions of independent workers as “employees” so they could be corralled into a union was his Labor Department’s overturning of independent-contractor standards adopted during the first Trump Administration.