According to the article written by Robert Brenner, Director of the UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, Big Bob’s Pacific Northwest Grain Agreements marks the beginning of the end for the once powerful ILWU.
Click of the hyperlink and read for yourself how academics look at Big Bob’s Grain deal.
UCLA article on Grain Agreement
Looks like we are not the only ones that think, NO deal is better than Big Bob’s deal.
Better to walk away from the grain business all together, than to lose the dispatch hall.