This country is STUPID!

Maersk Line, in a potentially staggering blow for the Port of Charleston and the South Carolina economy, followed through on a threat to pull all of its business from the local waterfront.

The port's biggest customer, said it would phase out all operations in Charleston over the next two years because it was unable to reach a cost-saving arrangement. A quarter of the service reductions will come in early 2009, according to Maersk.

The line blamed the decision on the International Longshoremen's Association, which rejected the company's proposal to move to the so-called common area of the port and allow State Ports Authority workers to perform jobs that otherwise fall to union labor.

The steamship line accounts for 20 percent of Charleston's container business in a time when volume is down 4 percent for the fiscal year.

Chalk up another one for the unions.

According to the DUmp, unions are the best thing since sliced bread. Yeah right.

God that makes me so damn mad.

Shelia wrote:

According to the DUmp, unions are the best thing since sliced bread. Yeah right.

God that makes me so damn mad.

My dad was a union guy, forced to become a member because his company did government contracts. He said they'd have to pay a welder for an 8 hour day to stand around and do nothing because they might need a weld and only union workers could be on site. He gets a small union pension but said it was a heluva way to live. Sitting at the union hall all day just waiting for some company to need an operator, and not being allowed to find work outside of the hall. Sounds socialistic to me!

My ex worked for a big paper company in GA that was union, told the workers they had to strike. We didn't get unemployment! I think it was like 40 bucks a week, dues were $12 a week. He made excellent money though....until they fattened themselves out of a job. The plant closed and moved to another state!

They are way beyond useful any more, WHY can't people let the useless shit go? 'Cause the big guys need the power and the money. Just like our Congress!

I got so riled I forgot the point!

These Longshoremen in the article? They are illiterate criminals. Several years ago, in keeping with Homeland Security mandates, were required to get Fed issued ID's by the year 2009! Now MANY of them are crying because they can't pass background checks. It took 5 years or more to get the stuff initiated and they STILL can't get the ports safe. IDIOTS!!!!

I'm sure at some point unions may have filled some useful purpose but now it's all about making a select group of people rich off the backs of taxpayers and workers.