The massive U.S. port strike has begun
The massive U.S. port strike has begun
Thousands of dockworkers are officially on strike across the East Coast. It could cost the U.S. economy up to $5 billion each day
Power to the workers. God hates a scab.
It's 20 years ago all over again?
War in the middle east and strikes galore. I keep getting older but the problems stay the same, yes they do, yes they do.
To be fair, there's always shit happening in the Middle East and rich business owners fucking over labor.
And we should be glad unions are still strong enough to strike.
If we ever stop seeing strikes, that's a bad thing for that industry.
Good for them! Hope they get what they’re asking for
Be prepared for Vance to hammer Walz over this strike tonight. I am hoping he's prepared for it. He probably is though.
How would Walz be more complicit than Vance? Neither are in office currently. I mean I'm sure Vance will roll all of the Biden admins decisions on top of Walz to try to make something stick.
If there's anything to learn from US politics for the past, well, forever, it's that some politicians and voters don't let the truth interfere with their narrative or perceived reality.
Springfield, Ohio is probably the best evidence of that.
Same way Trump showed pictures of unrest during 2020 and called it Biden's America lol.
A salary maximum (as per the article) of 79k USD per year seems low. This as the accident rate amongst longshoremen can be significantly higher than average. It's often not reported on enough (at least in Europe) but significant injuries and deaths happen often enough. This partly because (obviously) a mistake has way more consequences on a terminal vs e.g. working in an office.
The pay ranges from $20 an hour for junior employees to around $38 an hour for senior employees. Add in overtime and some people push $200k per year.
Nobody is really capped at $79k yearly
One of their demands is stiflingly automation which I can't get behind. That's a stupid way to eliminate efficiency
That's a stupid way to eliminate efficiency
In case of port/terminal automation the workers usually do not benefit. So it seems pretty understandable that they're against it.
In Europe there's way more automation. Still, workers often tried to prevent it.
Well if you don't realize in today's world you are either useful in a way dictated by vastly wealther people or you starve. So in a world with literally zero global compassion (meaning those in power who are in charge of keeping us safe) will cast you aside for an extra buck. If automation and innovation ment the emancipation of all humans to chase their passions, yes I'm all for it. But it's not. The change is to fire the workers to increase profits. That doesn't help anybody.
Fully depends on the way automation is done. But mostly it is to drive wages down and leave the employees left in less safe conditions and doing the very hard jobs which are hard to or cannot be automated wearing them out faster. Just as supporting roles get more pressure with also less means to succeed in their jobs and more stress.
don't hate the player, hate the game
Good. I hope nobody wants bananas for a while.
Simple, this action will make things more expensive for anything that comes in through a port and will bank things up that go out through a port. The flip side is that Walz will say that Vance doesn't understand the working class man. Especially as an 'elite.'