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East and Gulf Coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade
CNBC ^ | October 01, 2024 | Lori Ann LaRocco

Posted on 10/01/2024 2:58:52 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: griswold3

Lower prices for consumers. Not a bad thing.


61 posted on 10/01/2024 6:02:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Red Badger

What they need to do is hire all the illegals to replace them...SHOW them the consequences of voting for the radical left...


62 posted on 10/01/2024 6:07:13 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Red Badger
rejected an offer from the port management group USMX on Monday that included a wage hike over six years near 50%.

They rejected a 50% pay increase. What the hell are they going to be happy with?

63 posted on 10/01/2024 6:16:56 AM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: SunTzuWu

NO AUTOMATION clause in the contract.

Fill the pension fund.


64 posted on 10/01/2024 6:21:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

“What they need to do is hire all the illegals to replace them...SHOW them the consequences of voting for the radical left...”

What they need to do... if Trump gets back in office... is some olde fashioned union busting. Eliminate the power of unions to bring America down. The unions are proving, once again, that they hate America and care nothing for the American people, who are already struggling. Treat them as the treasonists that they actually are.


65 posted on 10/01/2024 6:21:59 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Red Badger

They’re trying to stop automation. Good luck, fellas.


66 posted on 10/01/2024 6:32:52 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C )
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To: Red Badger

“Trump’s fault”
A 50% pay increase?
Who do they think they are...Biden?


67 posted on 10/01/2024 6:36:59 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Psalm 73

I understand what you are saying, but that wasn’t my point...I just want people to understand that all the prep in the world won’t matter if God decides to drop a little humility into your life


68 posted on 10/01/2024 6:41:52 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Vermont Lt

Kamala Harris main politcal talent earned her the nick name “kneebpads.” If she were on the stick , she could exercose her skills on the entore Longshoremans executive council, thereby solving the strile.

But no, they are handing it to B Mayor Pete, whose political skills earned him the nick name “Bend over Booty edge-edge.” If he pulls his usual homo bend over strategy on the Longshoreman’s Union, they will drive a red hot poker home! It would not solve the strike, but would surely purify this administration some what.

Maybe they will send a collection of cross dressers to meet with the Longshoremen. Equity you see.


69 posted on 10/01/2024 7:10:31 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Red Badger

Stupid people.

Labor unions are not brotherhoods - they are powerful and wealthy businesses run for the benefit of the wealthy people at the top, not for the workers at the bottom of the pyramid.

When they go on strike union workers sacrifice wages they will never regain to help their wealthy masters who run the labor unions accrue more power and wealth.

Every vitriolic accusation labor union bosses fire at the managers of for-profit business and industry is what the union bosses themselves are guilty of.


70 posted on 10/01/2024 7:48:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: Red Badger

So? Bring in the military, nah never happen because the communists in charge love it when America is damaged and Americans suffer. Highly paid workers go on strike for what? to stop automation and robotics from making them irrelevant? Someone hasn’t ben paying attention to what’s happening in the fast food industry and the I would say that the union membership is blind to the fact that they are accelerating their replacement by technology.

All these well paid people striking, losing wages that will never be replaced and all because the union knows they will never get dues from robots and automated equipment.


71 posted on 10/01/2024 7:48:57 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Mastador1

It is inevitable that they will be replaced by robots. China’s ports and practically every major port in the world already has. The job is too simplistic and labor intensive not to.

They can’t hold out forever.................


72 posted on 10/01/2024 7:54:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dowcaet

A parting gift from Dr Jill and Co for kicking sleepy to the curb?


73 posted on 10/01/2024 8:12:39 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

I was thinking the same thing too. So many things going wrong in the country and add to that Iran’s imminent attack on Israel. With all this chaos far more Americans will be less inclined to vote for a clearly in over her head Kamala Harris.


74 posted on 10/01/2024 8:18:15 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Vermont Lt

I used to live close to a logistics center. In the early days of Covid, I used to walk by and check the truck traffic. The most frequent trucks were for bananas.


75 posted on 10/01/2024 9:21:08 AM PDT by Tymesup (O )
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To: Alberta's Child

It will be over $500K. But the point is NO AUTOMATION EVER. Simply not acceptable.


76 posted on 10/01/2024 9:38:52 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: mewzilla
The problem is far, far bigger than just the union. The United States does not control operations at many of our major ports.

Let me guess. China?

77 posted on 10/01/2024 2:11:23 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: central_va

“The country is one of the world’s top producers of key grains such as corn, wheat, and soybeans.”

mozt of these comodies are shipped through the great lake ports who are not on strike


78 posted on 10/01/2024 5:08:21 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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