weighs a long shoreman. he came over from ireland as a plumber and worked here long shoreman. gray eyes and auburn hair. brian: over here says couldn t break into broadcasting had to break into plan b. steve: broadcasting had not yet been invented. brian: long shoreman. saint nicholas avenue. brian: it s my brother that s really good with his hands and doing everything like that. steve: that is so cool. brian: that s fantastic. steve: we have learned so much today. , read more about it at my heritage.com. go there and use the promo code fox you will wind up with free shipping for your test and discounted price of 79 bucks for a limited time. i got an email from my wife. we re going to do all the kids. actually we would only need to do one. she wants to do it. brian: there is a special, right? there is a special we just said $79 and free shipping for fox friends.
averted with 30-day extension of the continuing contract. this had potential to be, have a huge impact on the u.s. economy. strike by 14,000 long shoreman from maine all the way to the gulf coast. considering the fact of how manufacturing changed, decimateed outsourced to countries around the world. this would have been a profound impact. the number, the small number of the long shoreman were going to have a tremendous impact on the american economy and the whole country i hope. i think the president, if he needs to, as much as president obama and democrats hate the act and they hate to invoke blocking a strike for 90 days, president obama would have to do it if necessary and may have to in a month. kirsten, look. anybody that is going to we re in a very, very tenuous recovery right now.
increased in november for the third straight month to reach the highest level in two-and-a-half years. major port strike has been averted for now after mediators got the long shoreman s union to postpone it for month to work out time detail osafter new contract. correspondent phil keeting is following that story from miami. at least one end of the year cliff has been averted for now. container cliff. there will be no east and gulf coast port strike happening this weekend. but both sides still have much to work out. if they don t, five weeks from now will be right back to a sweeping strike with great consequences. a strike in long beach in los angeles a few weeks ago. that was close. if you cost that area, $1 billion a day. sticking point has been the container royalties. salary supplements for long shoremen. heavier the container, the more they get paid. the owners want to cap the royalties at last year s levels to 15,000 long shoreman did not. this from the federal mediator
strike on the west coast in 2002, a lot of shippers made permanent arrangements to ship things in through the east coast instead of the west coast which was cheaper. now they may look at having to basically reverse course which adds time and money and if it adds money to the cost of the product, the consumer pays. eric: what are they looking for, the long shoreman s union? one thing that they re always seeming to be looking for, and it s been at issue, longshoremen for the last 25 or 30 years, is the idea that technological advancement might replace some workers. we don t have big heavy guys throwing a box on to a ship like you see in the 1940 s movie. they re containerized ships using cranes and they re concerned that further technological advances will
the highway system. it would provide states $109 million to spend things on tighten regulations for trucks and long distance tour buses and the ruler of communist china just named the best friend of the american worker? i wonder what trump thinks about that. that honor given to china s premier by the biggest long shoreman s union in america. they gave him award saying he helped create jobs for dock workers in the northeast. all right, guys. over to you. anthony weiner, john edwards, herman cain all fell victim to sex scandals but president bill clinton and other politicians have been able to survive them somehow so what did they do differently, eric? our next guest has some advice that can be applied to the oval office and your home. we re joined by professional crisis counselor and author of the instant survivor jim morehead. so jim, brian asked a very good question of what is a crisis? i think a crisis is an unexpected event in either your personal or professional life that r