Time for Taft Hartley to End West Coast Port Strike

The West Coast dockworkers’ strike is going to put this country’s recovery in a world of hurt

20,000 longshoremen with crippling powers those powers they now assert

Cargo ships are stacking up like planes in a blizzard circling over O’Hare and waiting for a chance to land

A prolonged longshoremen strike this nation’s fragile economy cannot withstand

Not sure what the dispute revolves around

Longshoremen are some of the most highly  paid workers in town

But for the fact Obama and the Blues are beholden to the union PACs

It is time to invoke Taft Hartley and to send the longshoremen to the docks back

An 80 day injunction with federal mediators aiding in reaching a contract deal

Along with that Obama famous rhetoric might an agreement seal

But to do nothing and watch factories here shut down because of goods still floating on ships

Is not the way to contain, degrade and defeat the economic woes that still have us in their grip

The longshoremen working on the West Coast ports should look at a strike’s long term effect

Won’t take a rocket scientist for Asian exporters to burn the extra fuel and to the Gulf, Vancouver and the East Coast their shipping deflect

Nor to realize that once burned again, the ports will seek to deunionize the operators of the cranes

Given their wages, risking a career would almost seem insane.

© February 19, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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