Tannenbaum, thanks for your response...but 'non-sequitors' and 'strawmen'?...I don't engage in 'Hegelian dialectic'...I just try to take certain arguments to their logical conclusion...You support the 'War on Terror'...OK...I don't...I think the dockworkers strike was a good gesture, whether effective or not...If they were striking for a contract, as someone else replied,they would have been out much longer, and there would have been lot's more turmoil and strife...should Union members engage in politics?...Unions are about politics; at least these guys took a stance on an issue that is helping to wreck America, instead of just going along with 'politics as usual'.