Lucrative longshoreman jobs at the seaports of New York Harbor are nice if you can get them but just a small fraction of the highest-paid dock gigs are given to Blacks and Latinos.
New Jersey wants to dissolve a product of the “On the Waterfront” era. New York wants the country’s highest court to keep the bistate commission alive.
The Waterfront Commission, which since 1953 has cracked down on mob activity and unfair hiring practices at the ports, now faces an existential threat from New Jersey’s political establishment, which is bent on shutting it down.
New York State filed a lawsuit Monday against New Jersey in the U.S. Supreme Court over the Garden State’s effort to dismantle a watchdog that polices mob activity on the docks.