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> Yep, it looks like it'll help Trump get elected, and he'll probably do exactly the same thing with these union workers that Reagan did when the air traffic controllers went on strike (he fired them all).

Reagan fired federal employees. Are the striking dockworkers employees of the US federal government?




No, and they don't have to be. Trump can just call in the military to force them to go back to work at gunpoint. You really think Trump worries about following the rule of law?




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