Your theory is sensible when the corporations are competing with each other for the labor. As a laborer. Your skills are honed for a particular industry. In the case of the longshoreman, the ports do not compete for their labor. In fact, the ports formed their own alliance, the US maritime alliance, so instead of competing for labor they could negotiate with labor as a collective.

The fault lies on both sides.

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Leaving a disrespectful jerk forever, including an entire industry, is always sensible, no matter where competition is.

Most people in the USA live paycheck to paycheck. Your comments reek of privilege, and lack the nuance compromise that life often demands.