Posted on 10/01/2024 2:46:27 PM PDT by blueyon
On Sept. 27, US Rep. Majorie Taylor-Greene warned about the ramifications of a strike in a tweet. Rep. Greene claims, “It’s very important to understand how critical this is given that America is now in a $36 billion dollar food trade deficit for the first time in our nation’s history.
Also, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional out-of-control spending have driven inflation so high that many Americans can’t afford quality of life.
I think this situation is serious and, depending on whether they strike and how long it lasts, could be a crisis going into the election, holidays, and winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
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!…
At all.
I suspect that the automation issue is the biggest point of contention. Would a company invest in both pay increases AND an agreement not to add automation which would be less expensive and more efficient in the long run?
Biden promising that he won’t order the workers back to work for 90 days is basically a threat to hold the whole country hostage for the sake of the union vote for Kamala. But it is short-sighted because the union vote can’t make up for the votes of Americans angry because there are shortages of everything and what is available is even more expensive than it’s been.
I may be with the unions on this.
Should we automate everything?
Right there, we may be at the point where we'll remove 50% of the workforce. Many jobs, you can automate. Soon we won't need computer programmers. AI can write the code for you. That's just one example.
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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.
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