Union's Strike again (All Puns Intended)
Now that we have all gotten our current personal pet itches out for one and all to enjoy, pick at and attempt to cure, here is a point that wasn't really touched upon. Unions, admittedly the recent strike by the Longshoremen on the West Coast was fairly short term as these things go, it does show one of the things that can drive these vessels to the East Coast to unload their cargo rather than take the short trip to the West Coast and drop it all off.
The company I work for here in Nevada had to wait nearly three weeks for a container load to be delivered to our warehouse that will make my job a right royal pain for the next couple of weeks as we have to pick up substitutes that were taken to locations, replace them with the correct products and then return the substitutes to stock. Having to pay for spinning our wheels doing this sort of thing is an expense that my company shouldn't have to deal with in a difficult economy. This sort of thing will make all those millions that the East Coast had invested in future projects have a reason for being but not at the expense of the small company.
