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JUST IN: Longshore Union President Who Pledged to “CRIPPLE” the United States, Owns 76-Ft Yacht, Bentley, Is Paid Almost 1 MILLION Per Year, Body of His Co-Defendent In RICO Case Was Found Decomposing In Trunk [VIDEO]
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 10-01-24 | Patty McMurray

Posted on 10/01/2024 2:46:27 PM PDT by blueyon

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To: DAC21

The only way they could get away with this is if politicians have passed laws making it illegal to hire non-union members, in order to win the union votes.

Does anybody know if that is the case?


41 posted on 10/01/2024 3:38:11 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: MinorityRepublican

Interesting comment. Gives me an added perspective.

As somebody else mentioned, both the companies and the unions are corrupt. That’s because the politicians want the money of the corporate world but the votes of the union members. Seems to me that the government buys the corporations so they can please the unions and it’s a win-win for everybody except the taxpayers who are stuck with both higher taxes and higher prices.


42 posted on 10/01/2024 3:41:10 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: blueyon

In a couple days, Biden will go Hartley and will become our saviour.


43 posted on 10/01/2024 3:41:31 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“But it’s going to be a problem if we have a bunch of corporations controlling everything (think of guys like Zuck and Bezos). This is where we need Unions. Even if they may be SOBs.”

You sound like you’re under the false impression that union members could (or would) somehow ‘reign in’ corrupt guys like Zuck and Bezos. But what if... the reality was (and it actually is)... that corrupt union leaders are the ones in control of the unions. That’s exactly “why” I am anti-unions. The union leaders are bad guys, just as bad as the corrupt corporation heads. Seen it time and time again and the current dockworkers strike is just the most recent, primo example.


44 posted on 10/01/2024 3:42:36 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: MinorityRepublican

“But it’s going to be a problem if we have a bunch of corporations controlling everything (think of guys like Zuck and Bezos). This is where we need Unions. Even if they may be SOBs”

I’m not Union busting, I just don’t think these guys deserve 300-400k plus a year after a 50% increase.


45 posted on 10/01/2024 3:43:00 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: butterdezillion

Are there any laws that prevent non-union workers from filling these positions?
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Laws of Physics and Chemistry, relating to Lead, Chemical propellants, gravity, velocity, momentum, etc.


46 posted on 10/01/2024 3:43:14 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: DAC21
I’m not Union busting, I just don’t think these guys deserve 300-400k plus a year after a 50% increase.

If they're overpaid, the corporation should be able to fire the workers. Then hire replacements.

Ideally, the unions and the corporations will work together. But sometimes that may not work out.

47 posted on 10/01/2024 3:46:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Scrambler Bob

I don’t quite understand that response. Are you being facetious, or am I just being sorta dense? lol


48 posted on 10/01/2024 3:48:08 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: blueyon
... Body of His Co-Defendant In RICO Case Found Decomposing In Trunk

Isn't that part of the standard minimum qualifications for any union boss job?

49 posted on 10/01/2024 3:48:17 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: butterdezillion

Said another way, Big govt and big business go hand in hand.


50 posted on 10/01/2024 3:48:43 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Should we?? The question is "will we"? Of course...

Automation takes different folks. So two things have to happen...to automate...we have to create the automated cycle and then hire a different category of workers.

51 posted on 10/01/2024 3:50:10 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Yes they do.

Which one of the Founders said that the country would be over once lawmakers used their power to help out their friends?


52 posted on 10/01/2024 3:51:15 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Sacajaweau
to automate...we have to create the automated cycle and then hire a different category of workers.

The workers will shut down the ports before we can get them automated.

53 posted on 10/01/2024 3:52:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: larrytown
John L. Lewis he ain’t.

Or Harry Bridges.

54 posted on 10/01/2024 3:55:38 PM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: plain talk

who’s gouging now?


55 posted on 10/01/2024 3:57:32 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: plain talk

After some perceived injustice in the first grade, I complained to my mother. She said Son, life is unfair, you must learn to live with it. I didn’t understand it, but I did do what she said and my life has been okay since then .
Automation is constantly increasing, AI is going to become ever better, Elon Musk has these robots in his factories making electric cars...
Life is not fair all the time for all people... But I’m with Winston Churchill on this when he famously said, “Americans can always be trusted to do the rWinston Churchill is often paraphrased as saying something along the lines of, “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
ut more jobs will be created in other areas. Life goes on.

I looked up at Churchill quote on the ChatGPT app in 10 seconds... 2 years ago I couldn’t spell ChatGPT.


56 posted on 10/01/2024 4:03:33 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavez)
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To: SandwicheGuy

Now I’m learning to proofread...


57 posted on 10/01/2024 4:06:56 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy ("Man is the only pack animal that will follow an unstable leader." Cesar Chavez)
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To: blueyon

The strike well-timed to coincide with the election but after the voting happens the Uniparty will unite to shut it down.

Biden and the GOP shut down the railroad workers from striking at a time when no election was in front of them.


58 posted on 10/01/2024 4:09:29 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: eyedigress

One of my earliest political memories

Even as a young teen I thought ‘that’s stupid.’

I was always being told about the children starving in Africa and India.


59 posted on 10/01/2024 4:09:59 PM PDT by Pontiac (esse welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: plain talk

“Learn to code” J. Biden


60 posted on 10/01/2024 4:11:39 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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