NY dock workers urge lawmakers to sink Hochul’s new waterfront commission

NY Post ^ | 01/25/2024 | Carl Campanile

[ChicagoConservative27]

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed legislation for New York to recreate a new waterfront commission to fight the kind of Mafia corruption made famous in Marlon Brando’s 1954 flick “On The Waterfront.”

But the union representing dock workers in the Empire State said Hochul is living in the past and urged lawmakers to sink the measure.

Hochul proposed the new waterfront unit for New York’s side of the harbor to replace the prior Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, a bi-state agency founded in 1953 by a Congressionally authorized compact between New York and New Jersey.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Who is in the right? Hochul or the unions? I thought think both are getting some sort of kickback.

[Tell It Right]

Unions typically vote for more Dim oversight and regulations.

As long as it's targeting other people, not this union's work.

[brownsfan]

Hey, you dumb SOBs wanted this, you got it. Enjoy.

[Leaning Right]

Democrats want more power and more control.
Unions want to protect their turf at all costs.

Neither group thinks much about what’s actually the right thing to do.

I suppose Rudy Giuliani would make a good mediator here. But he’s a Trump guy. So nobody is going to approach him.

[Salman]

It’s a struggle between mobs.

[rottndog]

The union IS the mafia.

[Alberta's Child]

Sounds like they are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Most of the marine cargo destined for the Port of New York is actually handled on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

[freefdny]

The dockworkers should start a commission on the democrats.

[SuperLuminal]

I’d trust organized crime long before I’d trust Bitch Hochul...