Posted on 10/01/2024 2:46:27 PM PDT by blueyon
On Sept. 27, US Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene warned about the ramifications of a strike in a tweet. Rep. Greene claims, “It’s very important to understand how critical this is given that America is now in a $36 billion dollar food trade deficit for the first time in our nation’s history.
Also, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional out-of-control spending have driven inflation so high that many Americans can’t afford quality of life.
I think this situation is serious and, depending on whether they strike and how long it lasts, could be a crisis going into the election, holidays, and winter.
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If I own a widget factory and the International Brotherhood of Widget Makers unionizes the plant and goes all predatory, I can open a new widget factory in a RTW state. If I don’t, my competitors will. Or my customers will import their widgets from Mexico.
Ports don’t work that way.
We need unions and we need corporations. What we don’t need is government’s thumb on the scales one way or another. Right now those shipping co’s can’t fire a single unionist or feds will drag them into the star chamber. If they bring in temporary workers the local government will look the other way as union thugs assault them, their property and their families.
The longshoremen are an union gone berserk!
They are overpaid like nobody else. Their jobs are actually pretty simple nowadays. Just operating easy to operate cranes.
Running trucks around the shore and latching the containers together.
My buddy was a salaried supervisor in port and showed me the operations. He got paid about quarter what them, rather unskilled union members, did. Thirty years ago, they already made six figures with super benefits.
This job actually goes in family. There is no practical way to get this job, unless you are somewhat related to somebody else. My friend tried to get in and he never managed.
Really, they are like mafia, holding all country hostage.
I, personally, would just fire all of them and get brand new crew.
Really, this job looks like it can be learned by and average Joe in a couple of weeks.
Scumbag POS, leading a bunch of scumbag POS’s.
From this union hand.
All the major corporations are supporting the Biden/Harris Administration. So we might as well as support the Unions.
Elon Musk is the only Titan of Industry to oppose the Biden/Harris Administration.
So this thug boss can’t even pretend to be for his union’s rank and file members. His goal is to cripple the nation that made him rich and powerful.
I say sell him into slavery in Sudan. and let him spend the rest of his life loading and unloading barges in Khartoum by hand. See how he likes that.
Season 2 of The Wire all over.
Ports don’t work that way.
Oh yes they do, by degree. During the last ILWU strike on the West Coast it was made clear that container ports and rail lines from Mexico made it possible to blow off Long Beach. Mexico is taking very seriously the business opportunities in being an option against monopolistic maritime behavior, including at the Panama Canal.
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.
Think back to how scabs were treated.
Combine lead and propellants, confine them, let them produce velocity and momentum, and apply to the non-union workers.
Not State or Federal laws, but kind of Law of the Jungle that Union strike enforcers might have applied in past times.
The man is captured by his drama. But when you have ALL the power, like he does, I suppose he can afford to be dramatic.
Maybe the shipping companies will hurry in some computers while they are out on strike.
The Port of New Orleans is 50% union, so I think the Longshoremen have a leak in their strategy.
Call out the Army Transportation Corpse! Wait, never mind.
Who cares?? As long as it hurts Commala.
bttt
At a big labor meeting John L. Lewis decked “Big Bill” Haywood, the IWW creep.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood
Ah, I see. Mafia laws. What really runs America.
There are laws against corporations forming monopolies. Unions, not so much.
Bkmk
Rob Reiner?
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