Port closures ~ Update 10/3

[Mobuck]

Just watch, Kakkling Kammie will come to our rescue and work out a plan with the dock workers' union.
Of course, this was already planned so the Kakkler can look good for voters.

 

[nekvermont]

Just watch, Kakkling Kammie will come to our rescue and work out a plan with the dock workers' union.
Of course, this was already planned so the Kakkler can look good for voters.

She will only look good to the clueless voters.

 

[peachhead]

I dunno...
The union head already told Biden to "stay the f@#& out of it "

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

The head of the union makes over $900,000, one son makes over &700,000 and the other over $600,000. Dad has a 76 foot yacht. They won’t accept a 50% increase in pay because they want a 77% increase. Unions may have had a place years ago, but this is pathetic.

 

[bigbillyboy]

This sort of reminds me of the fast food workers wanting $20 an hour to flip burgers. They were greedy and automation takes over .......... These dock workers may get a big surprise down the road .

 

[hittman]

https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/port-strike-how-much-does-union-boss-leading-charge-make
The outspoken union leader behind gridlock at America's East and Gulf Coast ports took home more than $900,000 last year, between a combined $728,000 salary from the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and another $173,000 from ILA Local 1804-1 in North Bergen, New Jersey, data shows.

 

[blume357]

Where is Teddy when we need him....

 

[Acorn]

RICO

 

[Fox Mike]

In Baltimore I just can't understand their thinking. The Key bridge collapse had them out of work for quite a while. Now they are back to work, offered a 50% wage increase over 6 years and turn it down.

 

[golferboy426]

The dock worker union strike is the perfect example of how unions have outlived their usefulness and should be dismantled. They are a TRUE monopoly hurting the consumer. If you doubt their motivation listen to the statement from the union president Harold Daggett , with his veiled threats of layoffs and food shortages coming soon to a town near you.

 

[gunzo]

Without facts & some bias, I somehow feel if that Trump was pres this may not happen. Or,,,,,,,,,,,,, he'd somehow convince them to settle, or else.

Again,,, they are not just filling their pockets or stickin it to the boss, THEY ARE FURTHER CRIPLING AMERICA!!

 

[GasGuzzler]

This sort of reminds me of the fast food workers wanting $20 an hour to flip burgers. They were greedy and automation takes over .......... These dock workers may get a big surprise down the road .

I am in a rural County Seat north of DFW with a population of just under 20K and the starting wage for a full time fast food employee is $16-17.50. Not far from $20 without any demands.

RICO

This

 

[Mobuck]

I have no idea of the truth of this comment but years ago I was told that 'the union' required that XX number of dockworkers had to be 'on hand' in case something went wrong with the loading processes. Those XX dockworkers were paid their full wage to sit and play cards while the machinery loaded the cargo. AND NOW THEY WANT HIGHER WAGES???

 

[vito]

Growing up in NYC in the 1940's and '50's, it was common knowledge that membership in certain unions was a guarantee of economic success, often unrelated to actual effort. It was also well known that membership in those unions was limited to close family members of current members. The longshoreman's union and the linotype workers union were great examples. I had a friend who was the son of a linotype operator union member (those were the machines used to set the type for printing newspapers). After high school he went right into the union that his father was a member of, and even as an apprentice operator was making great money. As a college student at the time, I worked part time in a hospital at, if I recall correctly, $1.25 and hour while this friend was making $10 or higher per hour. Before I had finished my freshman year of college, this friend had bought himself a Bonneville convertible (which was about as hot a car as you could imagine in those days). This friend got screwed in the end when the newspapers broke the union by automating, where they could pay a typist $2/hour on an early version of a word processor instead of $10 -15/hr for a union linotype operator.

The longshoreman's union has been relatively successful in slowing the use of automation in the loading and unloading of ships. Shipping carriers and ports could not make the switch quickly, due to capital costs, and since the union would strike, the shippers could not survive while still moving forward with the automation possible. Maybe this strike, with government assistance in the short run, could put an end to the archaic and extortionist longshoreman's union.

 

[Huskerguy72]

I am old enough to remember how Ronald Reagan handled the traffic controllers strike.

They were federal workers. I get that.

Where are all the people who were blaming businesses for jacking up prices due to their greed and creating all this inflation? This will naturally lead to more inflation along with UAW and others. I guess all these businesses that just all the sudden jacked up prices for no reason all go together and decided this is the time to do. What keeps them feel doing it whenever they want? People are gullible.

 

[Huskerguy72]

I have no idea of the truth of this comment but years ago I was told that 'the union' required that XX number of dockworkers had to be 'on hand' in case something went wrong with the loading processes. Those XX dockworkers were paid their full wage to sit and play cards while the machinery loaded the cargo. AND NOW THEY WANT HIGHER WAGES???

I have a similar account. A cousin and his significant other both work for Boeing in Washington. They talked about the great benefits and what they did and I didn’t ask much else. Later when just the cousin came for my father’s passing I asked him what his girlfriend did to make so much money. He laughed and said she sweeps the floors of the jets. She literally goes to work and stays all day and into the next shift. Much of the time she has nothing to do as she is in the floor section of construction. They are easily caught up but she goes in and still clocks tons of time and a half and double time. Every year she takes a huge vacation with her daughter, last year India, this year Spain.

And as you might guess she is always posting pro union stuff on FB. The prices of everything made by unions is highly inflated.

 

[Fox Mike]

My first father-in-law was a union member and was constantly telling me about how much money he was making. I had to remind him that I did his taxes each year and cannot remember a December that he was employed by any union. Yes, he made great money, when he was working, but they seemed to strike or just not have work at least once each year.

 

[Johnnu2]

What about the old plumber who was given a job by his union to watch some kind of burning pot(s) that were intentionally left burning in the NYC skyscrapers all night long....? He NEVER once went in to check a single pot (bec. he was too old to make the trip to the building and too old to make it up to each floor)....... his handsome salary for that duty continued long into retirement.
Increasing salaries = increasing cost of living = increasing salaries = increasing cost of living ad infinitum........
WE DO IT TO OURSELVES........ we deserve what we get.
IMHO of course,
J.

 

[oliver507]

Who here thinks dock workers are worth $143,000.00 plus overtime per year?

 

[Johnnu2]

Who here thinks dock workers are worth $143,000.00 plus overtime per year?

DEMOCRATS...!!!

J.

 

[moparclan]

Panic buying idiots here have already wiped out the toilet paper at Walmart!

 

[oliver507]

And everywhere else as well. Our Sam’s Club, Walmart, and Food Lion have been cleaned out! The Teamsters Union are very greedy.

 

[Ride1949]

Walmart here has plenty of T P & paper towels.

 

[Acorn]

Just asking, are there ports in Canada and Mexico?

 

[Ride1949]

Apparently, we still have some here in Oregon.

 

[Ride1949]

https://justthenews.com/nation/econ...d-upgrade-ports-even-he-caters-union-blocking

 

[davevabch]

I would suggest they wake up and understand what is going on in America. These jobs can easily be filled by the Millions of immigrants as is the Plan from the beginning. It would seem smart to lay low and shut up and take the money you are making and thank God you have a job for a while. It also seems to be the proverbial "biting the hand that feeds you", Wake up! There are millions of Americans hurting economically and they fail to understand that they this greed will force bankruptcy on carriers, and manufacturing plants. Stores will have to lay off employees. It will make the US Economy worse. And at a bad time.

This could very well be the time in history that a strike does FAIL and they wake up the next day with no job and all and no one to blame but themselves.

 

[thinckley]

Just asking, are there ports in Canada and Mexico?

Yes, although I do not know how much the ports in Mexico are used. Montreal is used extensively. From there goods go by train to Chicago where they clear customs and fan out to more regional hubs.

 

[larry8]

Strike!!!!!! You better stock up on toilet paper.

 

[MaxMan]

Took the 62% raise over 6 years and most likely some other perks. Not sure about the automation protection.