Posted on 02/11/2015 5:02:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
Troubles on the West Coast waterfront are getting worse.
Amid an increasingly damaging labor dispute, 29 West Coast seaports, which handle about $1 trillion of goods annually, will be mostly closed four of the next five days.
The announcement came Wednesday from the association representing companies that operate marine terminals where dockworkers move containers of goods on and off massive ocean-going vessels, eventually transferring the containers onto trucks or trains for distribution nationwide. […]
Employers do not want to pay hourly rates that are at least 50 percent above normal, which would bring a few of the highest-paid dockworkers to close to $100 per hour, according to Steve Getzug, a spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Association. …
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Greed will be the union downfall. In this economy it will be hard to gather any public support for wages this outrageous.
I hope my stuff from China comes in first.
Gee, how is this going to effect both the QVC and HSN shopping channels? Walmart?
I wonder if Obama will get involved in this?
It will certainly stimulate the long term plan to offload this stuff in Mexico and ship it to the US on Mexican NAFTA trucks.
“It will certainly stimulate the long term plan to offload this stuff in Mexico and ship it to the US on Mexican NAFTA trucks.”
Whoomp, there it is!
These idiots destroy themselves.
We’ve been running out of parts at the factory where I work.
I wonder if the dock strike is to blame.
I also wonder why some of this junk can’t be made in America. Are there no wire mills or plastic companies here?
dear nascarmation,
mexican trucks??
Do you think that they will understand ‘that italian word, fra-gee-leh’ (fragile)?????????
Most of their HD stuff is US sourced with previous level regulation emission diesels that last longer and get better fuel economy. Couple that with lower paid drivers and watch another category of US jobs melt away.
I saw this first hand this evening and have pictures of the container ships full of materials being delayed by these union creeps. The Long Beach and LA ports handle 42% of the containers coming into the US. Shipments are being delayed, trucks are returning from the ports without loads all at the whim of the union. This is causing some of the smaller truckers to lose their source of livelihood.
The union creeps should immediately get back to remedying this slowdown or be fired.
I am going to contact my worthless senators from Vermont and ask them to put pressure on the union.
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