Posted on 10/05/2024 2:06:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard responded to a question on if International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett’s large salary came up during negotiations over the port strike where higher wages were demanded by stating that “the president thought it was very important to get the two parties back together, to get the collective bargaining process back on track, to get the ports re-opened. He pushed really hard for that and he got it done.”
Host Jim Acosta asked, “Lael, Daggett is facing criticism for giving — for some of these demands of his, companies forking over money, but he makes over — apparently makes over $900,000 a year as a union leader. Was that brought up during the negotiations?”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Salaries? The union boss and his son he hired are barely squeaking by.
“Last year, according to U.S. Labor Department filings, he earned $728,694 as head of the ILA and a further $173,040 as president emeritus of the mechanics local chapter at Port Newark. His son Dennis, who has senior roles in both groups, was paid a total of more than $700,000. “
————Wall Street Journal.
While the current top longshoremen’s wage is around $81,000 annually, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor indicated that about 1/3 earned $200,000 or more last year, but the high earnings come with grueling hours.
The benefits include medical care, disability compensation, and vocational rehabilitation for eligible workers as of Nov 20, 2023.
Pensions for fully vested workers with maximum years of service rose to more than $95,000 annually in 2021 as of Apr 10, 2024
Wiki——Daggett was elected president of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 2011; he was elected to a third term in 2019. In 2023, Daggett earned $901,000 from the ILA, including $728,000 in base salary and $173,000 as president emeritus of ILA Local 1804–1.
Harold Daggett’s son Dennis has also been an ILA official since at least 2005. As of 2024, the younger Daggett was executive vice president of the ILA, and head of the New Jersey local once led by his father.
That cartoon villain made a lot of unforced errors, IMHO:
• Talked about how the strike was going to hurt consumers. (They’re not the ones paying the dockworkers.)
• Talked about how dockworkers worked through Covid. (Millions of other “essential” workers did, too. Some took hard stands and lost their jobs over it. So dockworkers are no one especially deserving for that.)
• Talked about “the malls” going out of business as stores began to close due to supply shortages. (Malls and brick-and-mortar have been closing ever since online shopping became more popular.)
• Issued his threats just as early voting started. (I imagine he thought he’d be hurting Trump but I think it hurt the current administration more.)
• Wanted an end to “automation.” (To close the door to efficiency and record-keeping and give more opportunity to theft.)
• Seemed to think a lot of essentials good would dry up. (The US still produces paper, energy, and food domestically. We’d live. And be pissed off.)
• Forgot that he and a lot of dockworkers do well already. (Are dockworkers really struggling? Doing supremely dangerous work? It looks more like a squeeze-play to me.)
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How many hours a week or day is “grueling?” I’m left to guess but it may not be what I think, remembering that some people work two jobs to make ends meet (or go to school by day but work at night) but rarely describe that as “grueling” but “hard.”
Unloading ships is back-breaking work so working overtime must be pretty grueling.
And yet… They do it. Month after month. Year after year. I would think there is serious compensation already in the equation to encourage dock workers to stick to it.
I never said it was easy. Only I think it stretches credulity to call it “grueling.”
I imagine OSHA makes sure conditions are safe and humane enough for people to do a shift and overtime on top of it. If OSHA is blocked from inspecting dockyards, I’d call that a problem.
But, I don’t know. They may still get everything they demand.
The White House had NOTHING to do with this.
The Governor of Florida said he would send the National Guard and State Guard to unload goods at the ports, and wham-o, we had a temporary end to the strike.
That is called leadership, something sadly lacking in the Biden-Harris-Walz regime.
“Unloading ships is back-breaking work so working overtime must be pretty grueling.”
Yeah, those cranes really break their backs. It isn’t like “On the Waterfront”. It’s all containerized and the bulk stuff like grain and coal have autoloaders.
How do they get the containers down under, out of the ship’s hold?
Being a longshoreman requires unloading cargo, lifting and moving bulky, heavy objects, working at great heights and being exposed to loud noises and dangerous equipment.
Reminds me of the Corleone family.
“That is called leadership”
When Ron D. said/did that, it was leadership on steroids!
You know who million dollar Daggett’s successor is?
Yes. Biden promised him a raise if he delayed the strike until after the first of the year.
Ain’t life grand......... Have a good’en
No. His son?
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