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Ken Burch

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Wed Mar-02-11 08:02 PM
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2. The PMA is the same cabal that tried to break the ILWU in 2002-3 with a lockout

Edited on Wed Mar-02-11 08:03 PM by Ken Burch

This is probably payback for their defeat in that effort.

They can use this ruling, if it isn't eventually overturned, to blacklist anybody who's ever tested positive for pot. Given that most of the ports they control are based in cities where pot usage was and is common, this could achieve through piss testing what they couldn't achieve through padlocks.

I hope the ILWU(of whose maritime division I'm a member)fights this.

What I can't figure out is why the Ninth Circuit, which right-wingers up here in Alaska always bash as biased towards liberals and environmentalists, would issue such a reactionary ruling.

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