Posted on 10/01/2024 7:40:15 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Roughly 25,000 striking dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. are rallying for higher pay and stronger guardrails around their jobs being automated out of existence.
Members of the International Longshoremen's Association, or ILA, a union representing the dockworkers, walked off the job Tuesday for the first time in nearly 50 years as they push for "the kind of wages we deserve," ILA President Harold Daggett said in a social media post on Tuesday.
Those wages, union officials argue, should factor in the torrid inflation that eroded dockworkers' paychecks under their now lapsed labor contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, known as USMX, which represents ports and ocean carriers. As the industry profits, longshore workers "continue to be crippled by inflation due to USMX's unfair wage packages," the ILA said in a statement.
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But he lives REALLY well. Ain’t living large grand!
$24.75 per hour after two years on the job and to $31.90 after three years, topping out at $39 for workers with at least six years of service. That isn’t bad money for what they do.
There are basically 2000 working hours in a year without overtime. At $40 an hour, an annual salary is about $80K without overtime and bonuses, plus benefits. $80K in California alone doesn’t cut it.
Not near as much as I was expecting.
I was thinking they probably get paid like Broadway stagehands. Guess not.
Maybe it’s a set up so Harris can come in and save the day.
"...Pay for longshoremen is based on their years of experience. Under the ILA's former contract with USMX, which expired on Monday, starting pay for dockworkers was $20 per hour. That rose to $24.75 per hour after two years on the job and to $31.90 after three years, topping out at $39 for workers with at least six years of service.
The union is demanding a 77% raise over six years, or the equivalent of a $5 increase per hour for each year of the contract. Under the union's proposal, workers would make $44 for the first year of the contract, $49 for the second and up to $69 in its final year. .."
I am not familiar with the kind of work longshoremen do.
Anyone here familiar with the jobs?
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/223573572
I worked with the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Those guys were making unbelievable money. I admit I don’t know what their salaries were, and I have been retired for over ten years, but their work conditions exacerbated their salaries. If I recall correctly, when they went to work, if there wasn’t enough to fulfill their day, they would go home on the clock until they were needed to complete their shift. The job was so lucrative It was said you couldn’t become a union member unless you were sanctioned by a union member, so they kept the jobs in their families.
1/3 in NYC ports $200k +, overtime.
Not bad money, but not great. The minimum is less than $50k, The max is less than $80k.
Loading and unloading ships.
Yeah that’s more what I was thinking.
I figured that, and I know that there is heavy machinery involved which is a valuable skill which would pay well, but I reasoned if there are 45,000 longshoremen, there can’t be 45,000 of them all operating heavy machinery like cranes and stuff like that.
I am paid well, and have had a difficult and stressful job, though not a physically demanding one unless one counts working 24-48 hours straight physically demanding...but I don’t make anything near what those guys make. But I work with my brain, not my brawn, and haven’t since I was 21 years old.
It is hard for me to figure, but...I also understand the point that working in a place like San Francisco might require a lot more money that I would consider adequate.
>> That isn’t bad money for what they do.
Depends on where they live and dependents.
Maybe it’s a set up so Harris can come in and save the day.
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But Kamala won’t distribute the wealth equally; she will distribute the wealthe equitably, and she chooses what is equitiable.
She will set the prices, too.
Rd later.
Most of them will be replaced by robots.
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