Posted on 02/08/2015 12:57:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) announced that loading and unloading operations at all 29 West Coast ports would temporarily be suspended this weekend in response to union slowdowns that brought freight movements at the ports to a near standstill.
PMA members stated that they cannot afford the almost $1,200 per day cost to employ International Longshore and Warehouse Union members to do little work.
After Breitbart broke the story on Thursday that union members of the ILWU planned to “walk out within the week,” the PMA employer group announced they can no longer continue to pay workers the premium pay for diminished productivity.
With ILWU members continuing to withhold the needed crane operators and slow crane movements, shippers and their customers estimated they were losing $1 billion a day. But a complete shut-down is expected to raise the U.S. economic pain to $2 billion a day....
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“Wow! I thought my brother-in-law was making good money at Verizon!”
It’s good to be Italian
That is obscene! With all the garbage they pull once they’re unionized, I’d bet they’re ALL working very little for that $1,200 per day. I think the employers should fire them all & start over without unions.
I work in logistics and this going to devastate our customers.
Ah the beauty of capitalism ~ when coupled with unions the sky is the limit; Unions and crime are made for each other.
Wow I think we are all in the wrong professions LOL. Dang! $1,200 a day, heck I could pay off all my medical bills with that kind of pay. How much of a cut does the union get?
Italian, Irish and Polish, actually. As for me, I’m a big fat Deutscher.
Hope the ILWU beats the crap out of them.
The shippers are the lifeline of the Chinese Slave manufacturing “free traders” who make billions importing crap and undercutting U.S. businesses. They can GTH.
Their whole Screw America trade gig depends on the ports.
Can’t think of a better group of companies to get the thumbscrews turned on them.
Gee we may have a shortage of Chinese made crap. What a crises. Grandmas purchase of a new plastic laundry basket may have to be put on hold.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
— Eric Hoffer
America’s labor unions are nothing more than government backed extortion rackets.
Fire them all and replace them with illegals from Mexico.
After the smoke clears you can hose the blood off the docks, bingo, no more illegals.
What’s obscene? The money the importers make selling crap for 10x cost in China?
Just so you know, it’s also screwing over US *EXPORTERS* as well. So, you know, they now have less incentive to keep production and jobs here and more incentive to make stuff someplace where idiot union lard tubs can’t screw with their shipments.
Capitalism is when Panama widens their canal, and China builds a canal through Nicaragua so no one needs west coast ports anymore.
Yeah, I said typing. One of the reasons they struck was because the maritime association wanted to hire workers inland to do the same job on a computer and transmit them electronically. Most of these workers were in Arizona, Utah and Nevada, not prime locations for the ILWU to skim dues.
What does that have anything to do with anything, is someone forcing you to buy stuff from overpriced retailers?
Oops! Too late!
Most of the dockworkers in San Pedro are already illegals. Who do you think is in the ILWU? Irishmen?
They got shoved out a long time ago.
Guess you wouldn’t know that up there in RustLand.
Once China starts beyotching about their goods not being able to get in, the O administration will take care of it.
NO one has any money to buy anything right now, so this was a stupid time for a strike. It may force people to buy American.
My new tagline.
Oh yeah baby, China people be buyin all sortsa US goodies.
(muffled laffter)
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