Longshoremen Union Suspends Strike Until January 15
You know the election has everything to do with this decision.
Don’t tell me this has anything to do with politics:
The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend their strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract, a person briefed on the matter says.
The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately at least until January said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement has yet to be signed.
The agreement will allow the union and the U.S Maritime Alliance, which represents the shippers and ports, time to negotiate a new six-year contract. The person also said both sides reached agreement on wage increases, but details weren’t available.
The conditional offer is a 62% wage increase.
“The International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. have reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues,” ILA and United States Maritime Alliance said.
VP Kamala Harris has her back up against the wall. The economy is in the crapper.
The striking dockworkers would have made the economy even worse.
Also, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made the Biden-Harris administration look weak when he ordered the Florida National Guard to the ports.
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This is something that can’t be automated soon enough.
My understanding is that quite generous wage increases were offered, the sticking point being the union wanted a ban on any and all further automation of the work. A possible compromise might end up being job security for existing members, allowing automation to take over as members in current positions quit or age out.
Problem being automation is inevitable, if not here then in competing ports in other countries.
‘Quite generous’ is mild.
They TURNED DOWN an approximately 50% wage increase over the next few years, demanding almost 80% increases instead. And most of them already make 6 figures.
The second people find out how much they already make and how much they turned down in favor of this strike, their support evaporates.
Considering that the real inflation rate during the Biden administration has totaled about 30%, I don’t think the longshoremen are being overly unreasonable. And a low ‘six figure’ salary is just about enough, these days, to raise a family in a reasonable neighborhood.
Price doubles in 70 divided by the roughly interest rate in percent years. 5% is 14 years, 10% is 7 years.
Their boss is a hard talking go for blood negotiator. H
We are way behind the curve when it comes to automation in ports. There are fully automated terminals in Europe, Singapore and China while here, we still have dudes with clipboards checking off boxes for $35 per hour.
Automation is already the standard in ports through out China, Japan and most of Europe. It will come here whether those luddites like it or not.
U.S. ports are nowhere near the top of the list of most productive ports in the world.
Let’s face it. The union picked a terrible time for this strike, and it meant a lot of egg on its face. The public viewed the strike as having been intended to harm the average person, and not simply the employers. That much of the country is trying to recover from a terrible hurricane didn’t help.
I think it actually picked the perfect time to pressure Democrats, but things changed rapidly. Harris is in trouble and any damage to the economy such as shortages would be laid at Biden’s (and thus her) feet. Perfect time to push for raises and an automation ban.
What the union goons didn’t count on was the American people’s reaction to the threats made by their leader which went over like a loud fart at a wedding. The idiot said the part out loud that he should have reserved for negotiations in private. The storm certainly contributed. The American people aren’t in a mood for this bullshit right now.
Yup. The optics of a bunch of people who already make more than most of us lollygagging while thousands of people in their “neighborhood” all along the east coast need help also didn’t help with their cause.
So in other words, they got a massive under the table promise that if Harris wins, she’ll give them insane concessions that they can’t give right now without people becoming enraged.
Harris doesn’t pay them so how is she going to give them anything?
Seriously? Do you not understand how POLITICS works?
Kinda but I’m ready to learn more. What is she going to give him?
The shelves near impacted Helene areas were already quite bare. The fact that so much of this is foreign owned AND that Trump is a fan of putting tarrifs on stuff- not sure why the port workers should not get a cut of that.
In the next breath— yes- automate the hell out of it.
would be nice if they said:
djt was behind us deciding to go back to work as to not endanger the american public
Unions are run for the benefit of union officials. There’s no common interest even among employees so officials are always deciding who gets the goods and who gets screwed, among senior and junior members. They all have to pay dues regardless.
Agree.
And, evidence is that most “members” (regardless of union) continue to recognize that “they work” to carry the “deadwood and driftwood” who are employed to pay dues and be “obstructionists” when ordered to be so.
https://x.com/mualphaxi/status/1841148551646286258
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/10/02/dragon-riding-dockworker-strike-underway-as-alinsky-methods-deployed-against-labor-union-head-harold-daggett/#more-264703
Watch the video clip in the aforementioned link. …
Thank God the majority don’t actually have Daggett’s “depraved indifference”.
But, “voluntary servitude” is a common and continual aspect of “human nature”: http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2250/Boetie_Discourse1520_EBk_v6.0.pdf
“You load 16 tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.”
Saint Peter don’t you call me, cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the” union boss…
Just as well. Things are bad enough for people. For Harris & Co, the hurricane response may be the fatal blow. The true consequences of the border are no longer theory, but stark reality, and there should be hell to pay for the way leadership lacks care all the way around.
To Gods ears
But amazingly, no one has taken their Harris signs down in my neighborhood
Correct.
Ukraine gets billions of dollars. Illegals get billions of dollars.
But hurricane relief has to be done by the equivalent of a bake sale (GoFundMe)
Speaking of which. I don’t see GoFuckMe forsaking their cut of the relief pie to help out anyone.
Damned grifters, every on of them
Don Surber
The International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike on Tuesday, a move that undoubtedly can dash Kamala’s hope of being elected president. Harold J. Daggett, president of the ILA since 2011, a job his dad once held, has more power over the national economy than anyone, including the Hobo of Rehoboth Beach and Jay Powell.
In a video, he explained what this strike means: “You know what’s gonna happen? I will tell you. First week, be all over the news every night. Boom, boom.
“Second week, guys who sell cars can’t sell because they’re coming in off their ships. They get laid off.
“Third week, malls start closing down. They can’t get goods from China. They can’t sell clothes. Thy can’t do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They go out of business.
“Construction workers get laid off because their materials aren’t coming in. The steel’s not coming. The lumber is not [coming] in. They lose their job.
“Everybody’s hating the longshoremen now because [they] realize how important our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me. ‘I’m putting a Taft-Hartley on you.’
“Go ahead. Taft-Hartley. Means I have to go back to work for 90 days. That’s a cooling off period. Do you think when I go back for 90 days those men are going to work on up here? It’s gonna cost the companies money to pay their salaries while they go from 30 moves an hour maybe [to 8]. They are going to be like this.”
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Now for the big irony in all this. You know who gave him that power? The Chamber of Commerce and those idiots who bought into trade with Red China under the guise if free market capitalism. There is no capitalism in Red China. It is a communist state that will go Kim Jong-Un on anyone.
Forbes reported in 2011 — a decade after we allowed Red China into the World Trade Organization — “China Executes 14 Billionaires in 8 Years, Culture News Reports.”
Billionaires are just for show. Ask Jack Ma how much his money saved him. And lecture me National Review, once again, about how I don’t understand Adam Smith. We are up against slave labor.
As for the Chamber of Commerce, it has pushed for moving American jobs overseas for 50 years. The chamber cited those darned greedy unions — you know the ones who enabled a man to take a job at a factory, marry, provide for a wife and kids, and buy a new automobile every three years back in the 1960s.
We had it all, like Bogie and Bacall. But the U.S. Chamber of Commerce went international, taking with it our jobs. Inflation in the 1970s forced mothers to work, which disrupted the social compact. There is no direct link of this to today’s licentious lifestyle of sex and drugs and abortion, but that is where we are today.
I live near Charleston, West Virginia. For decades, the chemical industry was the largest employer, not the government which is pretty farout in a small state capital.
But Union Carbide got greedy and moved jobs overseas to places like Bhopal, India. How did that work out for them?
The Department of Motor Vehicles now has more workers than Charleston’s entire chemical industry.
Just after Kamala came out in favor of shutting down commerce again too
The ILA over played their hand. Their union head threatened to ‘collapse’ the US economy even as the union walked away from negotiations with a 50% pay raise on the table. They deserve every bit of scorn. Especially when they timed the strike with a massively destructive hurricane hitting the US.
IMO automation is gonna arrive faster than they want and the monopoly at the ports is gonna be used to undermine their ability to strike in the future. Port operations are too important, too critical to the functioning of the economy to allow a strike. Would they then engage in a deliberate slowdown? Sure. They could also be replaced just as air traffic controllers were.
New woke term- Person of Extended Coast.
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