So the longshoremen are about to go on strike on the East and Gulf coasts.

[maxamusa]

Some of these workers are about to get replaced by automation so they are trying to get theirs now.

it's shocking the government hasn't busted up every union yet; you know they want 2 so bad.

 

[OneManGang]

Can’t catch a fukking break!

 

[gldnone913]

This is gonna fucc shyt up, brehs. Hope they get their bread, but

 

[Chrishaune]

it's shocking the government hasn't busted up every union yet; you know they want 2 so bad.

Joe said he wasn't going to step in between the labor negotiations.
Now that's what he said.
We'll see.

 

[Chrishaune]

I'm just letting the Coli know.

Ya'll better go to the store tomorrow and stack up on can goods and non-perishables.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

A statement from union president Harold Daggett suggested the union may be seeking a $5-an-hour increase in each year of a six-year agreement, raising the top hourly wage from $39 to $69 by the end of the contract.

Wage increases under the current contract, signed in 2018, were far more modest, with only $1-an-hour increases in four of the six years. That contract, which expires Monday, spanned the pandemic, when dockworkers stayed on the job, and months of soaring inflation.

The U.S. Maritime Alliance says its current offer includes "industry leading wage increases." West Coast dockworkers got 32% raises in their contract negotiations last year.

The union is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and moving containers in the loading and unloading of freight.

You want to keep the flow of goods moving? Give them what they want.

 

[maxamusa]

You want to keep the flow of goods moving? Give them what they want.

they're only getting $39.00 an hour for that work RN

 

[Chrishaune]

You want to keep the flow of goods moving? Give them what they want.

They are going to use this as an excuse to replace them.
It won't all happen now, but the automated gates are already in place and haven't been brought on-line yet.

They are working on the other stuff.

 

[maxamusa]

They are going to use this as an excuse to replace them.
It won't all happen now, but the automated gates are already in place and haven't been brought on-line yet.

They are working on the other stuff.

such as?

 

[Chrishaune]

such as?

The automation of the cranes and ability to move containers, even though all of it can't be automated, but they can take some jobs away.

Having a robot working all day and night moving containers off ships and onto trains sounds like a money maker.

 

[42 Monks]

They better be at the table 24/7

Puerto Rico is going to be fukk as well as us state side…

I already know the republicans are preparing to blame Biden/kamala and Trump will say he would have solved the situation within a hour

i mean yeah but honestly biden realllllly shouldn't just let this one happen because its not going to be one of those cute self-contained strikes

everyone knows that he wants to maintain the 'most pro-union president in history' thing, but this isn't a situation you can stay passive/reactive on

 

[Canada Goose]

69 an hour to live in a low COL Gulf coast state!?

I'd be living like a king if I had that hourly wage I hope these brehs get that 69 an hour.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Got like 3 close homies that are longshoremen.

 

[OsO]

Good luck to them

I hope they get what they derserve.

 

[popogogo]

Used to be a great job.
My homeboys dad had a 9th grade education and put 4 kids through college, had a nice home, new cars all the time and took vacations twice a year. Moms was a stay at home mom. Kids are a dentist, lawyer, petroleum engineer and a college dean. One kid did not go to college bet he excels at being in jail.