NEW YORK — Anyone who has seen ‘‘On the Waterfront’’ knows East Coast longshoremen can be a tough bunch.
The dockworkers are flexing their muscles again, threatening a strike beginning Sunday that would shut seaports from Massachusetts to Texas. It would be the first such coastwide strike since a two-month walkout in 1977 paralyzed the flow of tens of billions of dollars of imports — and the nation’s retailers and other businesses fear a painful replay if the 14,500 dockworkers make good on their threats.

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Gangsters.
greedy unions = shocked
Good. Let them strike and fire every single one of them the same day. Rehire the ones who sign a no union agreement.
Container royalites? What a crock. Let's call it what it is: extortion.