Posted on 09/30/2024 8:57:10 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Which products will become scarce because of the coming longshoremen Strike?
The port workers union have provided top dollar (i heard six figures) for minimal effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_West_Coast_waterfront_strike
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (also known as the 1934 West Coast longshoremen’s strike, as well as a number of variations on these names) lasted 83 days, and began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every US West Coast port walked out. Organized by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the strike peaked with the death of two workers on “Bloody Thursday” and the subsequent San Francisco General Strike, which stopped all work in the major port city for four days and led ultimately to the settlement of the West Coast Longshoremen’s Strike.[3]
The result of the strike was the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States. The San Francisco General Strike of 1934, along with the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 led by the American Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America, were catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.[1]
“they should think twice about gouging the public for real.”
Price “gageing”, as kaMAla says. She wants to run our economy, but doesn’t even know the lingo we learned in Junior High School.
“ALL OF THE STUFF SHOULD BE MADE IN THE USA!!!”
During PDJT’s upcoming rallies and speeches, I hope he connects the lack of goods with offshore manufacturing. If these things were made in the USA, an ILA strike wouldn’t be as scary. Of course, a Teamsters strike could be a problem.
All of the trains and trucks coming from the west coast will be full. Toilet paper comes west to east. If this drags on just a bit…they will be competing for space with all of the stuff coming through Panama.
If this goes a month or so, stuff could get very expensive.
I suspect that people are ABSOLUTELY CLUELESS to how much of our Industrial Base we’ve sent overseas, and with that how much our Lifestyle will crash if we no longer can access goods from overseas.
Ironically, it was Big Labor that had a HUGE PART in shutting down the US industrial base, and it just may wind up being Big Labor that opens the eyes of Americans to just how much damage they’ve inflicted on Americans - should this strike last a long time.
I wonder if Mexican ports are automated? Because that is where this stuff will come in from.
“Which products will be impacted by the Long Shoreman’s Strike?”
Also, NEVER FORGET, this is the same Labor Union that forced FDR to cut a deal with the Mafia in the 1940s, if FDR wanted the Labor Union to support the war effort.
While not shipping, I can give you an example of automation. I used to run a group of call centers for a top 20 bank. We would receive around 100,000 calls a day; about a million a month.
We installed “on line banking” and promoted the crap out of it. Within a month, our call volume dropped by 60%. By the end of the first year, our call centers were handling about 20% of the previous year’s traffic.
Within 2 years, all of my centers were closed and the traffic consolidated to one modest sized location.
In shipping the automation will come from optimizing the loading and unloading of the ships; the automation of putting containers on trains, and the fact that they can operate 24/7/365.
Obviously, the ports would not be consolidated but the cost per unit could be dropped significantly, and the time in port would be cut. The savings will be HUGE.
They were offered a 50% pay raise, turned it down because they want a 77% pay raise.
They should all be fired.
These people rejected a 50% salary increase! They should invoke Taft-Hartley and call out the National Guard to work at the docks. The last time they pulled this Jimmy Carter was President. Biden is Carter on Steroids.
Buckeye Cellulose is in Georgia, and was in Taylor County, Perry, FL operational until Helene came through.
Paper plants— owned by Procter & Gamble. Making pulpwood paper stock to then make toilet paper and Bounty paper towels and etc.
Sugar in Savannah. Dixie Crystal huge plant.
Whaaaaah? Average pay for Longshoreman (and their ghost workers on their contract list that line the pockets of the union leaders who then spread it to their “people”) is way up there. Hell 15 years ago UAW line people in the US were making 75-80$/hour plus double overtime and benefits out the a@@.
Longshoreman are mafia- pure and simple, and Xiden is one of the mafia (the Delaware crapola mob) and has been his entire stinking stupid life. A thug for credit cards and loan sharks-— a “real good union man” also known as a Mobster.
God please help us clean our house.
There will be many longshoreman repossessed pickup trucks hitting the markets soon.
I was just thinking I’m sure this also happened right before Covid or right as it started they pulled this. I remember lumber prices going up very high and weren’t ships stalled at sea in long lines because of the longshoreman in California on strike? This is probably a set up.
They offered a 50% pay raise. They want 77%.
If this starts hitting Michigan auto suppliers, wow this could backfire on Harris in an incredible way.
The Luddites didn't succeed 200+ years ago! Longshoremen have wages most can only dream of! They will have far more soon!
Training new operators could take months, automation could take years.
In other words, almost all of them.
The lawless one, Biden, said he doesn’t believe in Taft-Hartley Labor Laws because he only honors laws that he agrees with.
That will have an equal or greater domestic economic impact, IMO.
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