So are we.
Unions! Putting greed ahead of America!
Obama will crush the unions!
Why would the west coast dock workers not join in with their brothers ?
“Fire them.”
Agreed!
...(from an insider)..the bonuses (royalties) range from $20,000 to $40,000.....here's where it gets interesting, each member is allowed to contribute up to $3,000 per year to a political party. Many union members also register their 3 or 4 year old sons and daughters as union members....two kids, another $6,000 goes to a political party. One family donates $9,000, so now it's important for Odungo to settle this....just another rat slush fund....so they take half of your so-called bonus, when you make 120,000 to 200,000 per year who wants to stir the s*** pot?...or go home with broken legs, if you make it that far. DOJ Holder should do something about this scam..???????..*smacking head**....sorry, I was thinking like an American
Unions: Just another arm of the CPUSA like the MSM, Public Schools, Lawyers (vast majority), ACLU, Hollywood...
We have lost the war to the communists but, thanks to the groups listed above, most are unaware of that fact.
If anyone thinks the GOP will be the savior they are as delusional as anyone in the aforementioned groups.
If we were to look at most government agencies we would find more similarities to the former USSR than to the brilliance of the Founders. As we are about to be pushed over the Obama Gun Cliff, it is highly unlikely we can do anything about it.
Bring on the replacements. Even if they don’t strike.
they are lucky to have a job in this economy, go ahead and strike losers, plenty will take your job and be thrilled with it.
I hope the government don’t pay these strikers unemployment.
I think the Maritime Alliance should agree to continue the “royalty for each container unloaded”, if the workers agree for it to be in lieu of an equivalent reduction in their compensation somewhere else.
Usually when incentive-pay, like commissions, is part of workers compensation it is the primary component of that compensation, not a smaller add-on. It is usually done that way so that it actually acts as an incentive for greater productivity - low base pay but good commissions; rewarding performance over merely punching the time clock.
When regular, non-incentive-based, compensation is already substantial - 100Kplus/year, it is doubtful the small royalty compensation for each unloaded container actually acts as an incentive for greater productivity, but it does automatically, even without greater productivity, raise compensation costs.
Whatever the formula, if the workers want to keep the royalty, the cost for it ought to come out of their compensation somewhere else, or it’s likely to not be any incentive for greater productivity - just an added cost for the dock owners/operators.