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How much do dockworkers make? Here are the striking workers' salaries.
Cbsnews ^ | 10/01/2024 | Megan Cerullo

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dockworkers; salaries; striking; workers
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The union boss is real POS
1 posted on 10/01/2024 7:40:15 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What are their salaries?

2 posted on 10/01/2024 7:58:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But he lives REALLY well. Ain’t living large grand!


3 posted on 10/01/2024 7:58:38 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

$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.


4 posted on 10/01/2024 8:00:14 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: roving

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.


5 posted on 10/01/2024 8:03:41 PM PDT by MHT
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To: roving

Not near as much as I was expecting.

I was thinking they probably get paid like Broadway stagehands. Guess not.


6 posted on 10/01/2024 8:05:05 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe it’s a set up so Harris can come in and save the day.


7 posted on 10/01/2024 8:06:27 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
From the article:

"...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?

8 posted on 10/01/2024 8:06:36 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Is it his salary? Because David F Adam, CEO of USMX Makes $675,449 a year.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/223573572

9 posted on 10/01/2024 8:08:54 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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.


10 posted on 10/01/2024 8:09:08 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Steely Tom

1/3 in NYC ports $200k +, overtime.


11 posted on 10/01/2024 8:13:04 PM PDT by sopo
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To: roving

Not bad money, but not great. The minimum is less than $50k, The max is less than $80k.


12 posted on 10/01/2024 8:13:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: rlmorel

Loading and unloading ships.


13 posted on 10/01/2024 8:14:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: sopo

Yeah that’s more what I was thinking.


14 posted on 10/01/2024 8:21:31 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


15 posted on 10/01/2024 8:26:23 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: roving

>> That isn’t bad money for what they do.

Depends on where they live and dependents.


16 posted on 10/01/2024 8:38:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Linda Frances

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.


17 posted on 10/01/2024 8:47:35 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: rlmorel
Most of it is operating machinery. No more cargo nets and baling hooks. No more brawny stevedors.

18 posted on 10/01/2024 9:05:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rd later.


19 posted on 10/01/2024 9:05:44 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most of them will be replaced by robots.


20 posted on 10/01/2024 10:26:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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