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Article #217Re: Halifax Port Workers and their paycheques
From: IBM
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:40
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:40
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"stephanie" <shuber@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote in
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> Its great they make that kind of cash, but if you watch the goings on
> at Halterm and Ceres you would have heard about the major container
> lines pulling out of Halifax, citing costs as the number one concern.
> They will work themselves right out of a job one of these years.
> The container traffic and shipping traffic in our port is not the
> greatest when you consider the amount of shipping on the east coast.
> Its just too spensive to unload your boat here, and, if you are lucky,
> your stuff won't get stolen!!
Anybody remember a couple of decades ago when the same crew
proposed to make longshore jobs hereditary by contract.
In short good luck getting a job there unless you were a
relation of a current union member...
PS: I'm not kidding....
IBM
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