Union Bosses Going All Out to Capture Congress
During the months leading up to Election Day 2026, Big Labor bosses’ focus on politics has never been more explicit.
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.
During the months leading up to Election Day 2026, Big Labor bosses’ focus on politics has never been more explicit.
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.