Posted on 10/01/2024 6:29:47 AM PDT by hillarys cankles
Unionized dockworkers at 36 East and Gulf Coast ports went on strike early Tuesday amid an impasse in negotiations over a new contract with a group representing port employers
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
"Highly paid port workers, who earn between $100,000 to $300,000 per year, are demanding a 77% raise, or over 12% per year. They turned down a 50% offer."
Of course, that's the "highly paid" ones. I don't know what the newbie port workers make.
Unions don’t cause inflation
Already began. Costco is wiped out.
Thanks for sharing the perspective contained in that video - should be mandatory viewing for anyone offering an opinion on this issue.
Just passed them here in the port in Wilmington, NC. Yep- all cranes and trucks at at a standstill and the workers are striking, complete with signs.
Plan accordingly, people - pets’ food and their needs, grocery items, necessities, paper products and things for your car and household.
I remember from the covid shortages that it wasn’t a shortage of products but a shortage of packaging for the goods that was a big part of the shortages.
FJB. Human garbage. I hope people will be lining up to defecate and spit on his family for eternity.
I don’t believe that’s for a 40 hour work week.
I prepped today, paper towels, napkins, plates and the almighty TP
more beer, bring it on strikers
Sounds like a winning situation for any ports remaining open and that port that Mexico just took over.
Give them a week, then pull the Reagan maneuver and fire them. Hire replacements AND automate. Greedy SOBs.
Follow the political campaign donations to see who really runs our nation.
It really is interesting. Biden had no issue, forcing the railroad unions and and making them work, yet he doesn’t want to do it here.
A 50% increase over six years is perfectly reasonable to me based on what I have been able to find in terms of their average income. The fact that they want no automation is absolutely absurd. Having dealt with a unique environment before that allows some automation, the amount of redundant paperwork I ended up having to do a daily basis was ridiculous.
I had to log into about five different computer systems, print five different reports, give it to another person who would enter specific numbers from those reports into a spreadsheet, because you wouldn’t want to steal that job, who would print me out another report, that I would verify, physically print out a sheet saying I verified it staple it, hand it back to them then have them print me a final copy.
Each day, about nine departments would do the exact same thing, each printing between 50 and 100 pages each, at the end of the day, you would only retain about four of those pages, the rest would be shredded. Someone I knew worked in a very similar non-industry and most of that reporting was done automatically. You could log into one, maybe two computers systems, pull up the report on the screen click a few boxes to verify it and click print, and it would spit out a two or three page report that you kept on file
3/4 of US toilet paper is domestically produced.
It is tragic so many have been poisoned in their thinking due to bad unions [like government unions].
A good public sector union knows the importance of and highly supports the success of their employers.
They never bargain for anything that will ruin the business. That would be a deathless. Only insisting on sharing in the well researched success while protecting the employees.
Ensuring a decent living wage, safety, undue loss of employment,and a living retirement.
Corruption and government takeover of industry, has created a tsunami of hate and propganda against any citizen power group the government doesn’t control.
Just try to find a job now that isn’t with the government that offers pension.
A poorly funded 401k and medicare/medicaid is all a great deal of nongovernmental workers have now after 50 years of work.
Sure some hit the jackpot of investments. But for most, it is a hard and terrifying retirement.
Previously, unions insured employees shared in the profits of the company.
Now, the VIPS take the bounty with only the vision to get rich quick with no regard to long-term company success.
[Non-governmental] Unions and their employees have a longterm invested interest to the continued growth and success of the company and their consumers.
It is tragic so many have been poisoned in their thinking due to bad unions [like government unions].
A good public sector union knows the importance of and highly supports the success of their employers.
They never bargain for anything that will ruin the business. That would be a deathwish. Only insisting on sharing in the well researched success while protecting the employees.
Ensuring a decent living wage, safety, undue loss of employment,and a living retirement.
Corruption and government takeover of industry, has created a tsunami of hate and propganda against any citizen power group the government doesn’t control.
Just try to find a job now that isn’t with the government that offers pension.
A poorly funded 401k and medicare/medicaid is all a great deal of nongovernmental workers have now after 50 years of work.
Sure some hit the jackpot of investments. But for most, it is a hard and terrifying retirement.
Previously, unions insured employees shared in the profits of the company.
Now, the VIPS take the bounty with only the vision to get rich quick with no regard to long-term company success.
[Non-governmental] Unions and their employees have a longterm invested interest to the continued growth and success of the company and their consumers.
About right given today's inflation, property and school taxes, absurd federal and state taxation, etc.
Keep in mind that most of these strikes are in the southeast -- read mostly low cost of living areas that don't require 300K per year to raise kids and save for retirement. The workers have a right to strike. I just don't know how much more they can get.
The union head was very vocal about what they would do. He said they would ‘cripple’ the US Economy if their exorbitant demands are not met.
In the southeastern U.S. the grocery store shelves are already short on those usual things one does not want to run out of in an emergency due to the Hurricane. At my northeast GA Kroger yesterday, there were only a few loves of bread on the shelf. The milk cooler was almost empty and there was a lot of empty space on the center aisle shelves (coffee, condiments, etc).
It will not take long for the stores to be completely empty of items that come from overseas (such as coffee) if the strike continues for more than a few days.
The union is seeking wage hikes of $5 more per hour annually for six years, which represents a 77% pay increase over the length of the contract.
Seems they should have had a better contract to begin with. The new demand is a bridge too far.
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