Following the deadly bridge collapse, the Port of Baltimore suspended operations, resulting in 8,000 job losses. Many dockworkers have not been paid for weeks and are waiting for cargo ships to resume operations so they can start working again.
Some are still working at nearby smaller ports or on the little cargo that remains in Baltimore from before the bridge collapsed. But that's nothing in comparison to the flurry of activity this port once was.
Nothing like specializing...
ReplyDeleteThere will be lawsuits flying around everywhere between the ship owners and cargo owners and the government and some people will get a payout and some will get a tax write off and the everyday people doing a real jobs as a dockworkers get screwed. I'm not anti Union but Union rules will keep them from being employed doing something else like helping with the cleanup. I've seen this before when there was a plant fiasco and we couldn't put the laid off machinists to work helping clean up. Pet peeve of mine. Rant Ends.
ReplyDeleteLooks like ol' Joe is going to be buying some votes in Baltimore soon.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe that the longshoremen (union workers) are getting paid. They have one of the best contracts of all unions. Hell, they get paid overtime when they take a shit.
ReplyDeleteThe cargo is not sitting out at sea, they are going to other ports. I'm sure the dock workers at the other ports are loving the overtime/new job opportunities that brings. They never report in that do they?
ReplyDeleteNo job is guaranteed forever. Yeah, it sucks to get let go. Been there, done that. Go find something else to do.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a hard time feeling bad for those assholes.
I've delivered to the docks in more than a dozen places and those overpaid jerks always found a way to delay a delivery.
With the money they make they should have a $10k nest egg for a cushion.
America is the land of opportunity and people gotta be flexible so if, the dockworkers can't learn to "code" because the miners got that career all locked up, there's massive openings in law enforcement agencies all across the country so they can hop into those jobs, or they can check out the military since they can’t meet their recruitment goals.
ReplyDeleteI hear the IRS is hiring for people to fuck over the lower and middle classes.
DeleteThat or they can learn to weld.
Nevermind, that involves actual physical labor.
Eyes must be going bad, at first I saw "Cock Workers" in fear......
ReplyDelete.. started getting worried a bit...
@Luis-20/20
All they had to do was build concrete barriers in front of the bridge pillars to prevent it from happening in the first place. Now it going to cost billions to replace, as Baltimore Dem politics is going to want the cream of the graft.
ReplyDeleteFirst, the ship was completely outside the navigation channel, in a place where they typically can't even GET to due to the danger of grounding. Why spend money protecting a spot where the biggest thing that could normally even reach it is a sailboat or motor yacht...simple answer, you don't.
DeleteSecond, in order to stop that ship with concrete barriers, each tower footing would have to have a concrete barrier on each side using more concrete than used in the entire bridge. Those ships are heavy, and have an enormous amount of inertia, even moving slowly. A simple ring of pylons, or a "wall" would do almost nothing to slow it down.
You don't pour concrete, you pile up a bunch of large rocks. Those take the hit. We do it in Canada, and I'm sure other places that don't want to cut corners do the same.
DeleteTurns out that's a lot cheaper than rebuilding an entire bridge.