Longshoreman Strike “Buckle Up”

[ccc]

Remember the COVID supply chain issues ? When these guys strike tonight it will cost the US economy 5 billion per day. And for every day, they strike they are saying it will take the supply chain 5 days to recover. They are saying cost of goods will skyrocket. Just went and bought a ton of meat for the freezer. It is going to get ate anyway. We buy bulk for everything else so we are good for a while. Biden could intervene but says he won’t, of course not Harris needs them union votes. The union president exact words said “we will cripple the US”. Here we go.

US port strike by 45,000 dockworkers is all but certain to begin at midnight

The union representing U.S. dockworkers has signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts

abcnews.go.com

 

[donr101395]

I grew up in union country and they can go pound sand . They may have started out to be a good thing. What they have evolved into is for people that are too stupid to negotiate their own worth. Hopefully the union president dies of anal cancer while he has itchy, anal warts and two broken arms.
Yep, I said what I said, don’t really care if it offends union members.


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[ccc]

I grew up in union country and they can go pound sand . They may have started out to be a good thing. What they have evolved into is for people that are too stupid to negotiate their own worth. Hopefully the union president dies of anal cancer while he has itchy, anal warts and two broken arms.
Yep, I said what I said, don’t really care if it offends union members.


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There is NO WAY they should have this much power to affect people’s lives. Look at these people affected by hurricane Helene, that desperately need food and supplies and now they do this ????

 

[donr101395]

There is NO WAY they should have this much power to affect people’s lives. Look at these people affected by hurricane Helene, that desperately need food and supplies and now they do this ????

Exactly, it won’t happen, but I’d love to see the current administration do like Reagan did to Air traffic control. If for no other reason, just so I could hear a bunch of union workers cry about losing their jobs to people that actually give a shit about the country.


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[F4E Phantom]

Unions are in bed with democrats, so F them. I absolutely hate democrat and their supporters. F all of them

 

[Baddog 0302]

Unions are in bed with democrats, so F them. I absolutely hate democrat and their supporters. F all of them

If they do strike , the stores will jack up their prices so , will Biden order them back to work so Harris and the Dem's. won't get the blame ? Hell , I wouldn't mind seeing $ 4.00 / Gal. gas here which means $ 7.00 /a Gal. in a lot of places. Although most in those areas have already voted.

 

[Southalabama]

Interesting thread on another forum by a dock worker.

His words,

We're not going to reach an agreement. USMX keeps making ridiculous offers. We have given in for years on contracts that didn't keep up with inflation and our retirement. They want to automate our jobs out of existence to save money. None of the shiplines are American owned so all the money goes overseas. The cost to bring a Container across the ocean is up 400% since last October 6.

All the American terminal operators are on our side. Good to go with the local contacts and don't want a work stoppage. They are at the mercy of these foreign shipping lines. When covid hit we never stopped working just keep turning and burning 24 hours a day keeping the economy going and food on the shelves.

These shipping lines make huge profits in the billions and our labor costs I was told are around 4% of there operating cost. We work faster than the automated terminals in Europe.

 

[ccc]

Interesting thread on another forum by a dock worker.

His words,

We're not going to reach an agreement. USMX keeps making ridiculous offers. We have given in for years on contracts that didn't keep up with inflation and our retirement. They want to automate our jobs out of existence to save money. None of the shiplines are American owned so all the money goes overseas. The cost to bring a Container across the ocean is up 400% since last October 6.

All the American terminal operators are on our side. Good to go with the local contacts and don't want a work stoppage. They are at the mercy of these foreign shipping lines. When covid hit we never stopped working just keep turning and burning 24 hours a day keeping the economy going and food on the shelves.

These shipping lines make huge profits in the billions and our labor costs I was told are around 4% of there operating cost. We work faster than the automated terminals in Europe.

They are averaging 120,000 annually, if you can’t live on that you got problems, I live great on less !

 

[Southalabama]

Let’s keep profits going to the Rothschild family and China. American workers can be surfs.

 

[ccc]

Let’s keep profits going to the Rothschild family and China. American workers can be surfs.

Yea because the guy that moves a container should make 200k

 

[Southalabama]

Jealous or chinese or a Rothschild heir?

So labor makes up 4 percent of total cost.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

 

[ccc]

Jealous or chinese or a Rothschild heir?

So labor makes up 4 percent of total cost.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Just a realist that knows my education and resume does not command 200k, this sounds like the McDonalds workers that think they are worth $25 an hour.

 

[Southalabama]

From another forum. Not my words. Words of a dock worker

I'm a skilled operator that moves the same amount of freight that took 20 men pre container to load in an hour in one minute. I go to work and I don't know when I'm going to get off. I don't work a school kids schedule that most of the work force in America works and work under a different set of CFR's than all the other industries in America that is not to our benefit. Imagine going to work and not going home for 35 hours under the threat of being fired if you don't stay and get the work done.. your fine motor skills deteriorate at about 18 hours so you start operating on the other hemisphere of your brain and you got 6 men standing under the crane where you have to drive within about 3 ft. Of them in a 60 ton machine that steers backwards then your going forward and your sitting 40 high and sitting sideways. Sounds easy huh? We are not the evil union that hurts the company and drives up prices that the public loves to hate that's not us.

 

[ccc]

From another forum. Not my words. Words of a dock worker

I'm a skilled operator that moves the same amount of freight that took 20 men pre container to load in an hour in one minute. I go to work and I don't know when I'm going to get off. I don't work a school kids schedule that most of the work force in America works and work under a different set of CFR's than all the other industries in America that is not to our benefit. Imagine going to work and not going home for 35 hours under the threat of being fired if you don't stay and get the work done.. your fine motor skills deteriorate at about 18 hours so you start operating on the other hemisphere of your brain and you got 6 men standing under the crane where you have to drive within about 3 ft. Of them in a 60 ton machine that steers backwards then your going forward and your sitting 40 high and sitting sideways. Sounds easy huh? We are not the evil union that hurts the company and drives up prices that the public loves to hate that's not us.

Bro can you imagine the lawsuit if someone got killed working those hours. I call BS, they will not let you work for those amount of hours, but hey it’s the old interweb so it must be true.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

So what else is going on that we need to watch?

 

[Southalabama]

Port workers have some of the highest wages among blue-collar workers. Under the current contract with the East Coast union, a top-scale longshoreman could earn up to $39 an hour, which translates to about $81,000 a year. But many workers take overtime and extra shifts that have higher rates.

The ILA is asking for a $5-an-hour raise for each of the six years of the new contract, which means the hourly rate could reach $69 by 2030.

So work overtime you want to make $120k. Lots and lots of overtime

 

[ccc]

Port workers have some of the highest wages among blue-collar workers. Under the current contract with the East Coast union, a top-scale longshoreman could earn up to $39 an hour, which translates to about $81,000 a year. But many workers take overtime and extra shifts that have higher rates.

The ILA is asking for a $5-an-hour raise for each of the six years of the new contract, which means the hourly rate could reach $69 by 2030.

So work overtime you want to make $120k. Lots and lots of overtime

So these guys have the right to punish all of America ????

 

[Southalabama]

So these guys have the right to punish all of America ????

Should they work for free for you? They didn’t join the peace corp. Part of free market system is right to withhold labor.

 

[ccc]

Should they work for free for you? They didn’t join the peace corp. Part of free market system is right to withhold labor.

Working for free ? Really ? They have the right to withhold goods from the entire country, to hold the entire country hostage ?

 

[Southalabama]

Working for free ? Really ? They have the right to withhold goods from the entire country, to hold the entire country hostage ?

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