So he’s not who he says he is. What’s there to know?
Does it really matter to the left?
A modern day Johnny Friendly on the Waterfront.
Protect the entrances with national guard, all allow all these new immigrants to work. Protect them and if they hurt these new immigrants very bad PR for longshoremen.
Apparently 50% pay increase over six years that is being offered is not good enough for these guys.
At some point increased automation is going to eliminate many of those jobs. If those workers are young they would be well advised to get another line of work.
John L. Lewis he ain’t.
The dock companies might bring in under Temporary Protected Status replacement dock workers.
The shipping companies might use DaVinci surgical-style remote controls of dock cranes run by a worker on board ship.
The Chinese government might ‘request’ Chinese nationals with US work authorization to work the docks verbally guided by a person on a ship being unloaded.
This has the mark of MAGA/Trump.
Take the Deep State Cabal (DSC), and out them to self-immolate. Both sides of the longshoremen and port company dispute are corrupt, and with a crippling strike, the American people get to see it first hand.
You can no longer tell people, you must show them.
Union bosses have nothing in common with union workers.
Ya gotta love America!…
Excerpt:
During that trial, one of Mr Daggett’s co-defendants, a renowned mobster named Lawrence Ricci, disappeared. His decomposing body was found in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner several weeks later, with the killing still unsolved.
The Justice Department, which has reportedly lost two cases against Mr Daggett, has accused him of being an “associate” of the Genovese crime family - one of the infamous “five families” of the US Mafia. Charged with racketeering in 2005, Mr Daggett, took the witness stand and portrayed himself as a mob target, despite evidence against him from a turncoat Mafia enforcer saying he was under the mob’s control, the New York Times reported.
Anyone who would conclude that this is hyperbole on the part of MTG is wildly underestimating the capabilities of the ILWA to throw the current balance of agricultural trade into chaos.
The hourly wage scales these thugs wield with their collective knife at the throat of the American economy are so excessive as to make a mockery of the statutory freedom from monopoly they currently enjoy per the National Labor Relations Act of 1933. This statute as passed by Democrats is at root for many of the reasons the American manufacturing sector has lost its competitiveness.
Unlike many FReepers, I have no problem with unions as a fundamental right of free association. What I do think works against the American worker the way the Statute is currently structured, is its exemption for unions from anti-trust laws. Unions should compete as the corporate entities they are in the business of supplying skilled labor. It would go a long way toward rewarding skills according to individual contribution and toward developing, marketing, and rewarding higher capabilities.
Hey Biden-Harris. The balls in your court. May Joe can unload a ship while at the shore getting a tan.
Just a regular guy then eh?
Harold Daggett, the ILA boss who pledged to “cripple” the United States, owns a 76-foot yacht, a Bentley, and gets paid over $900,000.
He was acquitted on RICO charges after the main witness against him, mobster Lawrence Ricci, was found decomposing in a car trunk in New Jersey.
United States Files Racketeering Case Against the International Longshoremen’s Association and Top Ila Officials
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 06, 2005
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nye/pr/2005/2005jul6.html
The ILA is governed by an Executive Council, currently consisting of 31 ILA officials with broad power and authority to run the operations of the union and oversee its Locals, and is led in all matters of importance by the “big six” ILA Executive Officers, four of whom are named defendants in today’s filing as having conspired to commit acts of racketeering —
President JOHN BOWERS,
ILA Secretary-Treasurer ROBERT E. GLEASON
Executive Vice-President ALBERT CERNADAS
Assistant General Organizer HAROLD J. DAGGETT
Just a common working man.
“He’s a good fella. He’s one of us.”
Ain’t it a shame most labor union members can’t create their own jobs?....
just as they do for their union leaders. /S (I guess)