ILA Strike Watch 2012: What can We Study from the 1962 ILA Strike?
ILA Strike Watch 2012
If we glance to the previous we are able to be taught many issues. Most particularly, we are able to be taught what’s inflicting theWorldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation (ILA) to threaten strike right here in 2012.
Again within the 1960’s the ILA fought to have their contracts ammended to incorporate wording to guard staff from shedding their jobs to “automated machines”.
In 1962, Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation (ILA) went on strike.
Right here’s an excerpt kind the beneath video of stories protection of the 1962 ILA Strike:
“…A ghostly stillness embalms The World’s busiest port as 75,000 Longshoremen strike New York’s waterfront and all different Sea Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. Over 70 vessels lie idle with unloaded cargoes right here with dozens of others similiarly tied up beside piers from Boston to Houston…As items pile up railroads place an embargo on deliveries to the struck cities much less the storing amenities change into hopeless choked. The Hartley Act was invoked..”
What can we be taught from this previous 1962 ILA Strike?
- As soon as the ILA Strike takes place, cargoes will stay unloaded and vessels will lie idle.
- Railroads could start denying cargoes to the struck cities (i.e. New York, Boston, Houston, and so on…) when the ILA Strike begins.
- President Obama could enact “The Hartley Act“
What does these learnings present us concerning the pending 2012 ILA Strike?
- Any cargoes on water now that may arrive on or after the ILA Strike day, tentatively set as October 1st, 2012, won’t be unloaded and thus, not delivered.
- Any cargoes being routed by means of the West Coast to the East Coast could not make all of it the way in which to the Port Cities who’re on strike. Or any new cargoes attempting to be routed with this technique by way of rail could also be denied.
- If “The Hartley Act” is put into have an effect on by President Obama, very similar to when JFK enacted it in 1962, then the strike might be suspended and ended underneath the thought that it’s detrimental to American Commerce.
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Considering of what you already know concerning the present 2012 ILA Strike, what you now know concerning the previous 1962 ILA Strike, and what you already know concerning the present President, Barack Obama, what do you suppose will occur come October 1st?
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