Longshoreman Strike - East and Gulf Coast - now features TP shortages
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Who allowed the off shoring?
There are still quite a few of them for those who want to move to the areas of the automotive industry in any of the southern states
Also many occupations available by going to a trade school, which some companies actually prefer instead of a liberal arts degree. IN addition they will pay for further education while you are working for them. An example is the medical field which is horribly short on staff.
Its called a free country
Treaty of the war of 1812 for the East coast I believe. Part of the now defunct USA Corp.
Medical field is good if you actually like what you do.
Unbelievable read, like half the jobs are no-show jobs that they get paid for
https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/busin...orkers-strike-at-us-ports-with-only-25k-jobs/
https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/busin...orkers-strike-at-us-ports-with-only-25k-jobs/
Some unions make sense.
Others are downright dangerous to society.
How incredibly privileged and unbelievably powerful these 45K (apparently 25K actually working) people are.
They get to dictate to the entire country that they have perpetual real and fake jobs with regular raises. Who gets that?
They are allowed to prevent modernization.
They are allowed to threaten the economic stability and livelihoods of 330 million in this country and millions of others globally that depend on commerce to flow. Who gets to do this and get away with it?
If a country attempted this we would declare war on them and be backed by every ally affected by it.
This is simply an unacceptable situation to allow to continue.
Others are downright dangerous to society.
How incredibly privileged and unbelievably powerful these 45K (apparently 25K actually working) people are.
They get to dictate to the entire country that they have perpetual real and fake jobs with regular raises. Who gets that?
They are allowed to prevent modernization.
They are allowed to threaten the economic stability and livelihoods of 330 million in this country and millions of others globally that depend on commerce to flow. Who gets to do this and get away with it?
If a country attempted this we would declare war on them and be backed by every ally affected by it.
This is simply an unacceptable situation to allow to continue.
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I wonder if the ILA backed down because Dagget was exposed for the thug that he is and the publicity was hurting them?
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I read they want a 75 percent pay raise over the next 6 years. I know crane operators that make like $40/hr, so they're either all delusional or 80 percent of the people must not make much, unless you're running one of those cranes, idk.
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I think tp is one of those things that's cheap and they can buy and feel good about themselves without going broke. Most people can't double their usual $400 grocery bill.
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So do they fire all the people who went on strike after a while or not generally?
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Idk, every union has done it in the past in some form or fashion. Look at how many times the auto workers go on strike.
Striking auto workers shut down a few companies.
Striking dockworkers shut down countries.
Ok, want to get really riled up?
Check out the union leaders 7000 sq ft mansion. This is how he lives but he comes across like Joe public to the workers.
I have to agree, threating the country to me is almost like treason. This is one and only one case where I feel the Feds should step in.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/busin...ion-has-bentley-5-car-garage-and-guest-house/
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These guys always pretend to be working men, but in reality live off the workers like parasites. They also end up in jail a lot like the UAW leaders.
I don't care so much the guy has a nice house, but his willingness for everyone else to take a hit while he continues to live like a king off graft that angers me because I saw this fat cat behavior wreck the small town I grew up in as a kid.
I'll never forget the looks on kids faces that would show up to our nuclear groups hungry because their family had to make rent/mortgage/car payment choices vs more food some months while striking. I remember my parents buying presents for other kids to give as presents at events so the kids wouldn't feel any shame for not being able to participate or worse yet withdraw from all social events out of shame of being poor.
This discussion inevitably leads to someone making a parallel between a business owner becomes being rich while theoretically paying his people jack, and that does happen as well, but the big difference is that owner CREATED the revenue stream to begin that payouts with.
The Longshormen dont in any way create the commerce they service, they simply facilitate loading and unloading.
We can automate and retrain, we can make sure the people that install the automation are the people that maintain and run it - we can all make this work, but what we cant do is let this minority decide the fate of our collective prosperity.
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This is like Walmart installing self checkouts thinking they'll save on labor
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Have you watched The Sopranos? Having multiple no-show jobs is like a currency in the show.
"Hey Paulie, I'll trade you 3 no-shows for a a piece of your garbage route"
In fact the indicted mayor of NYC had some of his friends or family (IIRC) as NYC employee no shows.
