Posted on 10/03/2024 3:49:01 PM PDT by DCBryan1
HOUSTON — The union for 45,000 United States dockworkers agreed to suspend their strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract, according to an Associated Press source.
U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down Tuesday when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. The strike began at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and halted operations at ports from Brownsville to Boston.
The International Longshoremen’s Association wants significantly higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container-moving trucks used in the loading or unloading of freight at 36 U.S. ports.
Those ports handle roughly half of the nations’ cargo from ships.
The contract between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports, expired Tuesday. Some progress was reported in talks late Monday, but the union went on strike anyway.
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Bottom line......No. Also it takes four years to order and install ONE new paper machine. About two years for the converting lines. Four converting lines can keep up with one paper machine output as a rule.
Well, knowing how many things President in Exile Trump has actually BUILT on American Soil he’s had to deal with these blowhards a time or two. ;)
Waiting to see if he’ll admit to making a few calls - on they sly. ;)
Nothing matters when they can manipulate the computers, stuff the ballot boxes, let non citizens and dead people vote and prohibit observers from monitoring the process. Stick a fork in our “Free” republic. Lord have mercy on us.
Right in the middle of fkng winter.
Something weird I never understood. Bath tissue paper products makers PAY THE FREIGHT for the product to be delivered to the warehouses of Walmart, Kroger, Ralph’s, etc.....not the buyer. The cost of fuel and trucking costs had been killing bath tissue makers. Almost all other industries the buyer pays the freight costs, not the seller or producer. $5 a gallon diesel has been killing the paper industry, as have the natural gas, wastewater treatment, and electricity costs. One TAD paper machine uses enough energy to power, cool, and heat 20,000 homes. So much gas is used to fire the dryers and steam boilers that the gas main to each machine has an earthquake vibration sensor that auto closes the supply valve. A break could level a square mile if it broke open inside the plant. That’s how much gas is used per minute. It’s like a giant thermobaric bomb.
(I agree)
There will be a short time of great drama to gather a lot of attention, then Kamalah will ‘save the day’ and ‘personally negotiate an agreement’.
Then the MSM will report nonstop how Kamalah is oh so presidential. And just before the election.
“ There will be a short time of great drama to gather a lot of attention, then Kamalah will ‘save the day’ and ‘personally negotiate an agreement’.
Then the MSM will report nonstop how Kamalah is oh so presidential. And just before the election.”
Exactly.
You got that right.
Yes in the lady’s defense many ran out of tp during the lockdown. Even though it’s manufactured here.
They were ordered by Biden to wait until after the election.
TP is something you should always have cases stocked. Master closet, top shelf, I always have 2-3 cases up there, and that supplies the 4-5 rolls in the cabinets at each toilet. When the CoViD panic hit and Costco was always out, I was good for months, able to wait until they filled back up instead of desperately panic-buying the triple-price 6pack at the grocery store.
That’s why they’re striking. They’re trying to ban automation.
Maybe they can learn to program.
Matt Walsh called it on his show. He said this smelled from the beginning. This was nothing but a scam to help camala. It will come out that she helped find a solution for this strike and she will be heralded as a hero.
Yep. They are going to wait to strike to cripple the economy until just before Trump is inaugurated.
I just got home from Costco. I didn’t buy any TP or P towels. They had them. I didn’t even know the strike was called off until now. Torrance Ca.
The union boss’s just don’t want anything to hurt kamala’s election chances and they know a prolonged strike would. Problem for them is, even the union dockworkers are going to vote for Trump... Because they’re not that stupid.
Festivus must be November 5th, because this is surely a Festivus miracle.
A self-fulfilling prophecy, just like a run on the banks. No one wants to be the last one in line who gets left holding the bag.
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