4/09/2003 01:18:00 PM (link)
A couple weeks back, the United States awarded a contract valued at nearly $5M to SSA for managining the key Iraqi port of Umm Qsar.
SSA, you may recall, was the company whose management was largely responsible for the lockout of longshoremen last fall; as if it were not enough that the Bush administration threatened to break the labor stalemate by using military personel as scab workers and threatening unionh activists with charges of terrorism, the White House has now rewarded SSA's anti-union history with our tax dollars.
As one ILWU supporter remarked, one hopes "that no longshore workers, and no children of longshore workers, lost their lives in the battles that led to this contract."
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