Posted on 09/27/2024 7:48:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
Thousands of dockworkers at key ports along the East and Gulf coasts are preparing to strike early next week, potentially shutting down major trade hubs that handle roughly half of the container goods moving in and out of the U.S. Talks between the dockworkers’ union and a shipping industry group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers have been at a standstill for months, with both sides releasing conflicting statements this week about their readiness to negotiate.
According to CBS News, the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, seeking “immediate injunctive relief” to compel the union to return to the bargaining table, the alliance announced on Thursday. The NLRB confirmed receipt of the complaint, which is currently being processed by its regional office in Newark, New Jersey. The charge will be posted on the agency’s website in the coming days, after which an investigation will be initiated.
Top Biden administration officials, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, intervened with USMX members on Friday, pressing them to negotiate before the contract expires. The last-minute scramble has spotlighted the administration’s poor handling of the situation. Experts now caution that a shutdown could drastically disrupt the flow of goods and escalate shipping costs. Any increase in costs is likely to be passed on to consumers, potentially derailing the normalization of U.S. inflation and complicating the Federal Reserve’s efforts to reduce interest rates.
Kamala Harris has been struggling to uphold Biden’s dwindling political capital with labor unions, lacking his appeal to the working class. Earlier this month, The Teamsters union notably refused to endorse her, showing the dissatisfaction within the labor community. The looming dockworkers’ strike scheduled for October 1 threatens to exacerbate economic instability, further tarnishing the Biden-Harris administration’s standing with pivotal union voters.
The Daily Caller’s Mary Rooke outlined these major challenges Harris could face ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Harris has struggled to gain support from blue-collar workers, and a looming maritime strike threatens to worsen her situation. Rooke, like many others, say that the strike could disrupt American supply chains sending prices soaring and potentially cost the U.S. $5 billion a day in trade. If the Biden-Harris administration intervenes, similar to how it blocked a 2022 rail strike, it risks alienating union workers in critical swing states. If it doesn’t, the economic fallout could hurt Harris’s campaign further by impacting voters across the nation.
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“It’ll be devastating,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told Fox News about the situation. “I think people will not be seeing things on the shelves that they’re looking for. I think prices will go up. Talk about inflationary policy. There’ll be obviously a supply and demand issue that will drive up consumer prices and access to the goods that they need. And I don’t see the administration really talking about this issue. They say they’re looking at it, but we need more than just looking at it. We need them to engage to prevent this.”
The possibility of a dockworker strike adds to voters’ growing dissatisfaction with the economy—a situation that might not sit well with an electorate already on edge. Despite branding himself as the most pro-union president in American history, Biden and his administration have so far opted not to intervene. Yet, should a strike occur, it seems unlikely they would continue to avoid taking action.
White women don’t care. They just want to kill babies. Black women don’t care, they just want welfare.
Won’t that slow down the arrival of the overseas ballots?
Dock workers may be striking there too and the leftist Trudeau "government" is botching it the same as our resident leftists.
Dims want to destroy, destroy, destroy. Crazies on drugs.
Starbuck moms will starve to death as long as they have the right to kill their babies.
Is this Slo Joe’s parting gift to Klammy and Nasty Nancy for kicking him to the curb? Joey boy isn’t going to negotiate with the long shoreman.
Speaking of dock workers and trade hubs, shouldn’t the Transportation Secretary be looking into this? Has anyone seen or heard evidence of Mayor Pete recently? He’s even more invisible than Kammy! Maybe he’s on another hiatus to a distant, tropical island.
They are lame ducks. Ev3n the Haitians won’t eat them. Polio of the cortex.
You constantly post generalizations regarding groups of people. I can assure you not all WHITE WOMEN want to kill their babies! Not all Black women just want welfare! Just stop with the insulting depiction of white and black women! Disgusting lies!
Thank you.
In this case I am statistically correct. the biggest supporters of Harris are college educated white women and the most important issue to them is abortion.
You are realistically wrong! You seek to divide people into groups based on random characteristics! Just STOP IT! There are NO true so called statistics to support your chickanerey. I think you are on the wrong forum in posting this BS.
Amen!
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Hey, that's unfair. Black women want to kill babies, too.
61% of women support legal abortion in all/most cases.
So you are correct. Not all women want to kill babies, just the overwhelming majority.
It is a known fact that a better class of woman gravitates to FreeRepublic.com.
It’s going to happen and the Biden administration is making no attempt to stop it. Now I believe the President can stop any kind of National Strike in the national interests for at least 60 days, but Biden is not even doing that. He is getting his revenge I would say.
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