A historic United States port strike has been suspended, according to the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance.
A tentative agreement was reached "on wages" and extending "the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues," the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday evening.
Remember in the 60's when Hoffa had all the ducks in a row to basically shut down the country. What happened to him? Prison ,then death.
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase: "We have suspended the strike until after the election, because it would damage the election chances of our Democrat patrons."
ReplyDeleteMy first thought also. they must expect trump to win so he will look bad when the strike happens on January 15
DeleteLet me start with saying I've worked union jobs during my working career so don't start with the scab shit.
ReplyDeleteOk that said I don't understand why the governors in red states that are right to work states stipulate that work will continue while negotiations are ongoing.. It's not like these are high skilled jobs, roustabouts and crane operators unload work boats in the oilfields in the gulf, many times in 10 to 15 foot swells and 20 to 40 mph winds.. Unloading a ship tied to a dock would be a breeze for them..
JD
Unlrealistic overpaid dock monkeys. Automate their asses out of a job then.
ReplyDeleteThat gangster Union boss can get run over by a speeding truck too.
The Union boss makes 900 k a year, His son on another Union, makes I think it was 700k a year. meanwhile starting pay for dockworkers is 20 bucks an hour. Seems to me, they need to start figuring out why the top tier makes such ungodly amounts?
ReplyDeleteForeign ownership of all our ports is not good . return the ports to American ownership , and Then automate everything possible.
ReplyDeleteI'm betting some Demonrat pol or a mafia gangster(I repeat myself) sent that union boss a pic of his house with a target superimposed on it.
ReplyDeleteThat "f*ck you pay me" rant he put on the net the other day certainly warranted it.
Nemo