The Dockworkers' Strike

American Voices

October 16, 2002 | ISSUE 38•38

Dockworkers in 29 West Coast ports returned to work last week under court order, tackling a 10-day backlog of cargo. What do you think?

Those damn dockworkers have it so good—except for the spending-all-day-hauling-200- pound-boxes part.

John McGee
Systems
Analyst
My heart goes out to those dockworkers. They could have been contenders. They could have been somebody. Instead of a bunch of bums, which is what they are.

Grace Olney
Librarian
I heard Bush ended this strike by invoking 1947's Taft-Hartley Act. If I were him, I'd leave that boring crap back in ninth-grade history, where it belongs.

Randall
Smithson
Electrician
Oh, good. I would have just died if some shit on a boat in San Francisco didn't get unloaded.

Adam Nesbitt
Attorney
This is like the time I organized a strike over at Sbarro's. Actually, I just stopped showing up.

Gordie Runnels
File Clerk
I just feel bad for all the rotting vegetables. They're the real victims in all this.

Marcy Webber
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