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Hopefully they'll come to an agreement this week, but if not we could see some seriously empty shelves unless Hawaii gets an exemption.
"The chief labor negotiator for shippers and terminal operators at 29 U.S. West Coast ports raised the ante in contract talks with the dockworkers' union on Wednesday, warning that ports plagued by chronic cargo slowdowns were days away from complete gridlock."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/0...7020150205
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28028...-days-away
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Hawaii's covered by the west coast agreements, so if they strike, nothing's moving on or off ships here, either.
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I guess I better stock up on moon floss.
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For a state that imports 99% of everything, mostly on oil tankers from the US west coast, a port stoppage is going to be noticeable very quickly. Sounds like grocery store prices are going to be heading up even faster.
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Good thing our elected leadership has a Bold New Vision of reduced dependency on imported food, and that almost half our island is dedicated to agriculture.
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Dockworkers on the west coast have threatened to go on strike repeatedly in the past. They have always settled before shutting down the ports
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Originally posted by macuu222
Dockworkers on the west coast have threatened to go on strike repeatedly in the past. They have always settled before shutting down the ports
And hurricanes never hit the Big Island. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best!
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The Federal Govt will step in if indeed a full strike lasts more than a week.
The dock workers have been in slow down mode over 4 months,so this is a way to show the power of their unions over share holder profit margins.
While it may happen,we will all survive just fine but there may be a few minor disruptions in some shipped in items that humans MUST have right now yesterday .
And we will all have a story to tell the grand children for eons to come should a strike actually happen.
Best to stock up on TP,rice and a weeks supply of petrol.
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The longest ILWU strike was in 1971 & lasted 130 days... in 2002 the ILWU strike was 11 days, both had slowdowns before & after, both had the President of the US involved in the negotiations
One of the interesting things with the recent PWA /ILWU negotiations is that the PWA is claiming the current slowdown is based on the ILWU not moving the containers & not PWA having space to put more ships' contents, while the ILWU as started circulating images of acres of warehousing lots that are empty... Who really knows if either is correct?
I would like to think that these 2 parties can work things out to the benefit of all... but their past behavior has shown that they really do need the government to step in... hopefully this all can be resolved without a strike....
