EDITORIAL PORT SHUTDOWN BUSH HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO INVOKE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT.(Editorial)(Editorial)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: October 8, 2002 | Copyright information

THE shutdown of West Coast seaports over a dispute between the longshoremen's union and shippers represents one of the most pointless and destructive labor actions in years.

President George W. Bush initiated a legally required study of the shutdown's economic impact Monday with the clear intention of invoking the Taft-Hartley Act to force the dock workers to go back to work unloading the roughly 200 cargo-laden ships stuck offshore. He has no alternative considering the enormous economic damage that's being done.

This is not a dispute about wages, since the dock workers ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Dock Workers in Port Hueneme, Calif., Protest as Ships Wait.
; ...Monday in the Port of Hueneme while dock workers, carrying placards protesting a lockout...Association not only kept more than 100 dock workers off the job Monday at the port, but...substantially. And if there aren't enough dock workers around later, cargo could continue to...
Dock Workers Withdraw Go-Slow Program
; The go-slow program of the dock workers in Chittagong port, the largest sea...Saturday between port officials and dock workers, a port press released here today. The...decided that the bonus scheme of the dock workers would be effective form July 1. A five-memb...
Dock workers strike
; ((PHOTO CAPTION))
Deduction of compensation money: Dock workers may go for action program today, THE INDEPENDENT
; ...compensation money from the wages of dock workers. The Port Authority today tried to pay the salaries of the 903 dock workers deducting Tk 75 from each. But...against the decision, about 5,000 dock workers refused to take their salaries...
Army to supervise cargo handling at Ctg port: Dock Workers' Management Board gets tough with workers, THE INDEPENDENT
; ...suspended today due to the abstention of dock workers since last evening. According to CPA...whole day today. The meeting of the Dock Workers Management Board (DWMB) and the Port...Management Board has decided to suspend 25 dock workers who created disturbances on June 23...
The Thirteenth Amendment and the right to strike
; ...however, striking West Coast dock workers marched with homemade signs...injunction, permitted under the Taft-Hartley Act, that George W. Bush had...slavery might seem silly. The dock workers, after all, are among the...U.S. labor law. But the dock workers have a ...
Bush acts on docks, but retailers facing a six-week backlog.(striking dock workers )
; ...President Bush's plan to get the dock workers back on the job. Judge William...80-day cooling off period under the Taft-Hartley Act, as Bush requested Tuesday afternoon...the cargo backlog. Even if the dock workers go back to work [Wednesday], it...open because Bush invoked ...
SHIPPING: EUROPEAN DOCK WORKERS TO STRIKE ON JANUARY 17.(Brief Article)
; ...liberalisation of port services. European dock workers have fears about the social impact of...pilotage, towage, freight handling, etc). Dock workers are particularly irate that ship loading...Directive, against possible port strikes. Dock workers' representatives voiced concerns ...
EUROPEAN DOCK WORKERS START STRIKE ACTION.
; ...liberalisation of port services. European dock workers have fears about the social impact of...pilotage, towage, freight handling, etc). Dock workers are particularly irate that ship loading...Directive, against possible port strikes. Dock workers' representatives voiced concerns ...
DOCK WORKERS TO SHUT PORTS 8 HOURS IN SOLIDARITY MOVE.(Business)
; ...to shut down all ports on the West Coast for eight hours Monday, in solidarity with dock workers in Liverpool, England. The union said British dock workers were fired 23 months ago when they refused to cross a picket line in a continuing labor...