SoCal Port Strike Costing $1 Billion Per Day As Union Clerks Turn Down $190,000 Offer

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 4th at 10:00 AM  | 

Among the nation’s shrinking union population, the unionized office workers at Southern California’s ports make more than most actors in the Screen Actors Guild. They make more than union construction workers, truck drivers, school teachers, cops, fire fighters, and just about any other unionized profession you can think of (with the possible exception of sports players). In fact, other than union bosses themselves, it can | Read More »

Obama’s Reaganesque Choice? Strike Breaker or Economy Killer

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  September 4th at 05:30 PM  | 

Less than a month from now, on September 30th, a union contract covering about 14,500 workers at 14 ports up and down the U.S. East Coast expires. The union, the International Longshoreman’s Association* (of On the Waterfront fame and one-third of whose members reportedly make more than $200,ooo annually) has already authorized a strike that would begin on October 1st.