ILWU dockworkers locked out on west coast

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

>PMA rejects tech agreement,
>Closes West Coast ports
>
>To divert attention from its rejection of the ILWU's reasonable technology
>proposal, the PMA announced today it will shut down all West Coast ports
>with false claims of union slowdowns.

Why is it that when the ILWU threatens to strike, that's a threat to national 
security (or Christmas, same thing) but when the PMA locks them out it's 
suddenly an issue of private property rights?  Oh, wait, I know the answer.

Jenny Brown