The Dockworkers' Strike
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?
John McGee,
Systems
Analyst
"Those damn dockworkers have it so good—except for the spending-all-day-hauling-200- pound-boxes part."
Grace Olney,
Librarian
"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."
Randall
Smithson,
Electrician
"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."
Adam Nesbitt,
Attorney
"Oh, good. I would have just died if some shit on a boat in San Francisco didn't get unloaded."
Gordie Runnels,
File Clerk
"This is like the time I organized a strike over at Sbarro's. Actually, I just stopped showing up."
Marcy Webber,
Student
"I just feel bad for all the rotting vegetables. They're the real victims in all this."
