Why should Delaware care? The Port of Wilmington is one of the last anchors of good-paying, blue-collar jobs in Delaware. It also has suffered a string of financial and personnel acrimony over a dramatic six-year period.
Last spring, a judge from the federal agency that oversees labor laws ruled that a prominent Delaware union leader retaliated against a Port of Wilmington worker by preventing him from securing jobs through the longshoremen’s union’s exclusive hiring hall.
A week later, the Delaware union appealed the scathing ruling. The case now sits before a federal appeals court in Philadelphia…