Tip of the Day

Friday 9 September 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

Unions are NOT your friends.

Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that’s staffing a workforce of other union laborers.

One group feels it has the “right” to work a particular job, and destroys it when the property owner hires others to do it. How is this not EXACTLY the same as drug turf wars? And how the fuck can 500 dudes break in to a facility, destroy private property, and take hostages without any arrests at all? It seems to me like union-friendly Washington isn’t going to even pretend to enforce the law.

Hoffa is somewhere beaming with pride.

2011-09-09  »  madlibertarianguy