Longshoremen’s Union President On Port Strike: “In Today’s World, I’ll Cripple You.”

With a port strike set to occur at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday at all East and Gulf Coast ports, Harold Daggett, the President of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) sat down for an interview and explained the crippling ramifications to the economy.

via CBS:

In a video posted by the dockworker’s union last month, the ILA chief negotiator warned a dockworkers strike has the power to “cripple” the U.S. economy, by blocking the import of everything from cars and clothes to construction materials.

“These people today don’t know what a strike is,” Dagget said. “When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down… Everything in the United States comes on a ship.”

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