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Longshoremen’s Port Strike Averted: The Flatscreen TVs Must Flow

Longshoremen’s Port Strike Averted: The Flatscreen TVs Must Flow

Somewhere, fictional union local president Frank Sobotka of the port of Baltimore is very pleased. The International Longshoremen’s Association had threatened to go on an East Coast strike beginning this Sunday, preventing most nonperishable cargo sent across the Atlantic from reaching its destination and causing an economic containertastrophe. [More]