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Dirty Jackass Jake, this issue has nothing to do with the environment. The longshore and teamsters want to monopolize trucking at the port. The enviroment is a pretext.

Dirty Jackass Jake, you are a mouthpiece for the longshore and teamsters.

Dirty Jackass Jake, are you a principled progressive or a pussy? Why do you work for a scab rag like the Stranger? When are you going to call Yoko at the Guild and seek help to organize this scab rag?
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Our Port of Seattle officials take credit every chance they get for generating nearly 200,000 jobs in our region. Yet no-one at the Port wants to take responsibility when those jobs turn out to be in sweatshop conditions. And, to boot, they are lobbying Congress to NOT give them the power to fix this crap.

Can the Committee subpoena Port Director, Tay Yoshitani? Or the Commissioners? And then I'd love to see the talking points sent to them by the ATA.

Thanks for staying on top of this, Jake!
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good article, important issue, but please fact check: Rep Peter DeFazio is from the 4th District of Oregon, not Washington.
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Oblather's henchman Steve Chu insured that we'll be choking for decades by suppressing hydrogen technology.
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@1:

Riddle me this then:

Who owns the trucks these drivers lease?

Who tells the driver which truck they can lease?

Who tells the driver when to show up, where to show up, and what to haul?

If the answer to all three questions above is the same, then that entity is an employer, period, under federal, state and municipal labor law.

If the driver doesn't have any say in terms of when to work, where to work, and what type of work they do, they're an employee, period, under those same labor laws.

And if the Teamsters and Longshoreman want to organize those workers, that's their right, under the terms of national labor law.

If you have a problem with following the laws of this Great Nation, then I can only conclude you must be some sort of furrin' commie-pinko-socialista, in which case you should step out of the car son, and produce a valid form of identification...
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Great stuff, Jake. Keep up the good work.

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