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Organized Labor at a New Moment of Reckoning
Hundreds of ships sit off the Pacific Coast, loaded with tons of perishable produce, as factories relying on just-in-time deliveries run out of time and inventory. The West Coast port shutdown is draining $ 2 billion a day from the US economy. With 10,500 longshoremen locked out of ports from Seattle to San Diego, dock workers claim that employers are trying to cripple their union. Port operators accuse workers of resisting new technology. Is big labor prepared to tackle technology, globalization and the other big issues of the 21st century? We get an update on negotiations, then hear what the dispute means for the union and the American labor movement, from a labor historian, manufacturing representative, and advocates for union and non-union workers. Bill Whitaker of CBS News guest hosts. Newsmaker: Nation Anticipates President Bush-s Speech on Iraq President George Bush spent the weekend at the Bush family summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, conferring with his father about Iraq. James Gerstenzang, White House reporter for the Los Angeles Times- Washington bureau, reports that the former President offered the current President some important behind-the-scenes fatherly counsel. Reporter's Notebook: The Garlic Wars We-re eating more and more of it every year-- three pounds for every American man, woman and child. Yet, despite costly transcontinental shipping and hefty US tariffs, Chinese farmers are happy to feed our growing habit at the expense of their American counterparts. Louis Freedberg, editorial writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has been digging into the simmering, international garlic wars.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readHundreds of ships sit off the Pacific Coast, loaded with tons of perishable produce, as factories relying on just-in-time deliveries run out of time and inventory. The West Coast port shutdown is draining $ 2 billion a day from the US economy. With 10,500 longshoremen locked out of ports from Seattle to San Diego, dock workers claim that employers are trying to cripple their union. Port operators accuse workers of resisting new technology. Is big labor prepared to tackle technology, globalization and the other big issues of the 21st century? We get an update on negotiations, then hear what the dispute means for the union and the American labor movement, from a labor historian, manufacturing representative, and advocates for union and non-union workers.
Bill Whitaker of CBS News guest hosts.
Nation Anticipates President Bush-s Speech on Iraq
President George Bush spent the weekend at the Bush family summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, conferring with his father about Iraq. James Gerstenzang, White House reporter for the Los Angeles Times- Washington bureau, reports that the former President offered the current President some important behind-the-scenes fatherly counsel.
The Garlic Wars
We-re eating more and more of it every year-- three pounds for every American man, woman and child. Yet, despite costly transcontinental shipping and hefty US tariffs, Chinese farmers are happy to feed our growing habit at the expense of their American counterparts. Louis Freedberg, editorial writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has been digging into the simmering, international garlic wars.