bush opens west coast ports
"We're absolutely furious," said Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "The P.M.A. locked the workers out, contrived a phony crisis and then gets rescued by the administration. They're getting their way and have the weight of the government behind them."A rare and successful use of the Taft-Hartley Act ended the longshoremen's lockout on the West Coast yesterday.