I witnessed what I think was a road rage incident at Alaska and California yesterday between a compact car and SUV in the early afternoon. If you were in the SUV, I am willing to be a witness on your behalf.
A weird thing happened to me on my way to work yesterday – I live on the corner of 55th and Charlestown. Yesterday, I was heading south on 55th, took a left onto Genessee, and one block up, in the middle of the day (it was 11:30am), two big fat raccoons crossed from right to left. Ambling, and giving me the stink-eye for having to abruptly break to not run them over. I’ve not seen them out in broad daylight, so I was rather surprised. Anyway, that’s why I keep my kitties indoors!
It might be a bit less. But not much. ‘m combining numbers from not picking and our packing line being reduced and a few other jobs. I know you’d love to find some reason to “prove” me wrong.
Yes, you can use them without a reservation. Just be prepared to vacate if someone comes with a reserved sign & permit.
Yes JoB my husband and I are self employed. We do consultant work.
My reference to laying workers off is in regards to my families business in agriculture where I’m a passive owner. I have no say in operations and currently take no distributions but am well aware per our financials on how this affected central WA economy and loss of jobs.
Yes, good article dobro, on that Damned liberal media!
Mike
Does anyone know if you can use the shelters if they are not occupied or reserved? Tried to call parks and rec today but no answer.
Jd, here is an article examining the factors contributing to the back-ups in West Coast ports. port delays
Picking up on your comment above, I’m reminded of the pivotal period in the 1970’s into the 80’s when U.S. industrial production sustained big declines in productivity relative to the rest of the world and management and organized labor collaborated in allowing inflation to obscure the growing deficiency rather than working together to foster mutually beneficial improvements. I’ve previously mentioned Gabor Steingart’s War for Wealth in which he holds both camps accountable for what he characterizes as corruption.
In any case, while the economic issues are different now, it does seem to a situation where you’d think the PMA and the ILWU would use the opportunity to work together on improving operations.
My sense is the PMA is mostly focussed on introducing more automated tools and reducing workforce while the ILWU is preoccupied with trying to hold onto what jobs remain. One longshoreman commented to me that they would really like to have more training available to prepare members for technical type positions as automation proceeds.
Of course, that raises the question of whether or not the ILWU members even have a shot at the positions involved with maintaining and operation highly automated equipment or not. As we saw with the chassis, employers sold off the equipment to leasing companies so they (in part) could have non-union mechanics work on them.
Cue Peter, Paul and Mary—When will they ever learn?
JTB – I understand there are some new challenges for the ports. But just about every news article I’ve read says west coast ports are essentially crippled. Whether it be unorganized super ships, chassis or any of the other non labor reported issues, we should still have “crippled” ports for the foreseeable future then. At least until an operational/equipment overhaul of all of the west coast ports occurs to combat these new challenges.
I guess I’m just trying to point out that we have a lot of people pinning this entirely on the union or entirely on the PMA. One bad guy and one good guy. Does anyone truly think one or the other was standing idle and playing honest and fair while the other was pushing them around? I’ve never known big corporations or unions to get bullied without doing some bullying right back.
“What I do know is that courts have ruled against the longshoreman for slowing down work
deliberatley to “help” their case.”
Well, according to the article on that subject you presented, you actually know that there was a ruling in the early summer of last year on a work slowdown unrelated to this case. That’s a little different than “knowing” something about this event.
Would the owner of silver Toyota Camry, licence —PLG contact me. I watched you hit my car and drive away.
Jd
when a port has crawled to stop.. any improvement in productivity will look like a fix to bystanders
Jd. My understanding is the big sticking point was the union’s effort to be able to replace arbitrators through mutual agreement with PMA rather than have essentially a lifetime appointment.
To your other point, the increased size of container ships and method of loading inbound containers will both continue to place a strain on the ability of the ports to processes incoming loads. Apparently the shippers in Asia no longer load containers according to destination which means more sorting on the receiving end.
Good news is that it does sound like there is an agreement.
In regards to articles. I think we all should be educated enough to know that reporters interrupt what they believe their direct readers want to hear. Neither you or I know what is happening. I What I do know is that courts have ruled against the longshoreman for slowing down work deliberatley to “help” their case. I also know that we had to lay off 100 + workers because we were unable ship fruit… So lets just hope we can move forward.
@DaveB, we are in your area and were hit a few times over the past month as well. I’d go with the short bungees like Smitty recommended.
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Let’s take a look at that article and use our reading comprehension skills, shall we?
“Starting this fall, problems reached crisis levels as dockworkers slowed their work rate to comply fully with safety rules and companies that load and unload ships rolled out partial worker lockouts.
Employers said they would not pay extra wages on holidays and weekends to dockworkers they accused of purposely slowing down as a bargaining tactic, which their union denies.”
Let’s look at this sentence..
“Starting this fall, problems reached crisis levels as dockworkers slowed their work rate to comply fully with safety rules…”
Does this mean that their normal work rate was unsafe? That seems silly. My guess is its a way to falsely equivocate a phony “slowdown” with the reality of this…
“…and companies that load and unload ships rolled out partial worker lockouts.”
Notice they had to qualify the worker side of the deal, as they go on to say this…
“Employers said they would not pay extra wages on holidays and weekends to dockworkers they accused of purposely slowing down as a bargaining tactic, which their union denies.”
So the employers have definitely locked out workers while making a silly accusation that the workers slowed their work to “comply fully” with safety rules. But these are presented as equivalent.
Words mean stuff. Try to read them correctly.
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Parentof2 has a great point; I did my own, cropped it in Photoshop to the specs here:
http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/photos/photo-examples.html
I printed mine on a high-quality printer I had at work at the time, but any prints that meet the requirements should work. Also, that way you can take as many pictures as you like and pick the good one to use.
It’s not just imports PP. It’s ecports too. And by shutting down exports we are costing jobs and hurting our economy.
Thank God it sounds like the government is fibally pushing then to settle
http://www.komonews.com/news/business/Labor-secretary-sets-Friday-deadline-set-for-West-Coast-port-deal-292939771.html?mobile=y&clmob=y&c=n
“somebody should tell FAUX news
if they repeat it America will believe it :(“
I much prefer Dan Rather and Brian Williams………;-)
somebody should tell FAUX news
if they repeat it America will believe it :(
and yes.. i am having a cynical day
