Posted on 09/30/2024 7:13:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thousands of workers at more than a dozen ports throughout the United States are preparing to go on strike as the deadline for their union and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) to reach an agreement looms closer.
Dockworkers with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), who work at roughy 14 ports along the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico are set to go on strike as of October 1 if their union and the USMX do not reach an agreement regarding their labor contract, according to the Hill.
Roughly “25,000 port workers employed in contain and roll-on/roll-off operations at ports on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts” are currently covered under the current agreement, according to the USMX.
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We’ll be eating the cats. We’re eating the dogs.
I was deeply disappointed the UAW won their auto contracts with that horrible anti-American Commie Shawn Fain in charge. His shirt said “Eat The Rich.” He thought he was so cute. (spit).
Now the Dems could save their election again. Whistle past the graveyard of the economy before the election if this strike fizzles out. Then just “gas is 50 cents less than last year.” And “most food items are not going up very much higher lately.” Bidenomics cured inflation. Whoopee.
They already got a yuge boost against Trump when that sneaky Fed creep lowered the rate and caused New Year’s Eve style celebration of the stock market capitalists united to sink the GOP in November.
I want the economy to crash hard—BEFORE November. Not after as some are predicting.
Oh good someone else waking up. Too late. Buy TP.
Quick someone wake Joe. Shout something about the Jews striking another cultist hangout and he will shout about Taffey.
You gotta beat the Haitians...
The NLRB will order dock workers back under federal law. Legally, dock workers must return for up to 90 days. How productive will workers be? Probably a lot less, but the contract is then kicked past the election
And the backlog grows. Or do we not mention that?
Implicit in mentioning that is a guess as to the exponential damage this backlog may cause. Don’t sugarcoat this?
I just read on another thread here that the employers of the dockworkers have offered them a 50% wage increase. To avert a strike. How do you reject that kind of offer? Have the unions lost their minds?
I live in Magalia, formally known as Dogtown. So we got that going for us.
The spokesman for the union said he knew nothing about such an offer.
A lot of facts will be distorted in the heat of the moment. Prayers for clarity and reason. Let the hurricane victims not be victim to.politics, please.
Biden told a reporter that his handlers had decided to not force a 90 day cooling off period that they could have imposed. That WAS before the hurricane so perhaps it can change???
Amen to that!
OK. Are you a handler? And why can’t he tell us who these handlers are while he is awake? Maybe we can ask them since Cringe seems to be having problems speaking the King’s English these days.
"We'll go from 30 loads an hour to maybe 8 loads."
they don’t say what they’re striking about...
The simple fact that our own government allowed our own factories and communities die out by not doing anything to prevent with incentives / tax breaks etc... the feds have assisted with tax incentives in the 70’s and 80’s for companies to move overseas for cheap labor and no EPA crawling all over. This has been a true economic move that leaves us dependent on foreign goods to the point where national security is severely jeopardized. The handwriting has been on the wall for decades. D.C. doesn’t care they made their $ nests and we the unwashed be damned.
“Buy TP.”
Bought some. Used up half of ‘em worrying about the strike.
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