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This is the clear result of an overbearingly powerful entrenched union allowing absurd inefficiency. Tough to imagine a legal recourse. Ideally you allow local ports to outlaw the unions, but that would be a legal nightmare and be extraordinarily difficult to pull off, since the entire port's unionized staff would likely quit.


You could simply allow non-union workers, or allow other unions to bid the job. Just some modicum of competition. But right now it is them or no-one.


> simply allow non-union workers

I have a hunch that if it was "simple" the port owners would have done that a long time ago.


The government would have to allow that, not the port owners.




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