Where I’m from , you start by getting a twic card. Then head to ILA and talk with the guy running it. Once you get in the system, you have 4 chances to get work. Once in the morning and then different time frames through out the day. But if your a new guyand haven’t earned a number on the floor so your first to get picked for work. They stick you behind a gate, and you literally beg the Forman to pick you and take your number. I’m talking, I seen guy climbing and screaming to get noticed to get picked . shyt was wild!!!!!
So the longshoremen are about to go on strike on the East and Gulf coasts.
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the bossman
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Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Pissed off, they made the stock market drop smh
Piff Perkins
Veteran
You cannot justify this while claiming the workers are being greedy.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
“Industry profits topped $400 billion from 2020 to 2023, which is believed to be more than the industry had previously made in total since containerization started in 1957”
this is just a ridiculous way to frame things. like read that out and actually wonder why it makes sensePay them
pawdalaw
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Yeah, something about dude is off. The delusion of grandeur has already Intoxicated him. watch him, there'smore to his story...
ABlackMan
Superstar
The vain rhetoric of “this gone fukk up things for us boss” with no mention of what will be lost…all this no diddy shyt lol jokes on we the people again.
Absolut
Legal Bookie
He’s straight up giddy to be holding the regular joe hostage a month out from a critical election. He’s got the dem shills like @Pull Up the Roots hook line and sinker though
Smokin Rider
I been official
Ppl dying left and right on the east and the government won't pay and these clowns also won't help. Money true is the root of all evil
At some point these unions need to chill the fukk out. The more the workers gets paid the more leadership has to pay middle mangment more $ to make it worth it for them. That's more $ they have to spend which either is going to get passed off to the consumer or result in layoffs to offset the price. The higher the wages go the quicker they are forcing leadership to transition to automation. If these dudes already making 200k then they need to shut the fukk up and keep their head down for the betterment of everyone. Ask for a 7% raises each year and call it a day otherwise you better believe by the next contract that union workforce will be slashed.
I think it's more about automation. They probably see the writing on the wall that many of their positions will be taken over by automation.
i'm supposed to feel bad for these dudes? what the fukk?
they AVERAGE 200k a year, plus another 100k worth of benefits and pension?
i don't think the public is gonna side with them
Thing with automation though. You can't automate everything without creating a new generation of unskilled labor.
Eventually we'll hit an intersection where customers are to poor to buy products and business gets further consolidated into fewer companies
at people going out to buy stuff to hoard that don't even come from overseas.