United States port workers strike

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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    Get to work
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    But, really...

    I read they want a ban on all automation???? WTH??? That should be a non starter.
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  • Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


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    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    I wonder what the retention rate was for employees…I mean, why would you raise wages so much if you aren’t losing employees?

    I also read they were offered roughly 50% pay increase vs the 60%+.

    ultimately this is about automation though and they are trying to raise wages to make automation less attractive 
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  • teskeinc
    teskeinc Posts: 1,784
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    That’s what he promised them when their union president visited Marlago! 🍊 piece of 💩 started with torpedoing the border bill and now he wants to reek havoc by getting these idiots to strike at this very convenient time right before election! It’s all about cheating he doesn’t know any other way to win 
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    lol...there will be no overtime with Project 25...and there's a nice new clip of trump bragging on how he never paid overtime...classy
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  • The Juggler
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    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    my man gets duped left and right


    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-proudly-brags-got-paying-160333816.html

    Watch: Trump Proudly Brags About How He Got Out of Paying Workers

    Hafiz Rashid
    Mon, September 30, 2024 at 12:03 PM EDT
    2 min read
    961

    At an Erie, Pennsylvania, rally Sunday, Donald Trump let slip how he really feels about workers, telling his crowd of well-wishers how much he hated paying overtime at his companies.

    “I know a lot about overtime. I hated to give overtime, I hated it. I’d get other people—I shouldn’t say this, but I’d get other people in. I wouldn’t pay,” Trump said, basically admitting to wage theft and hiring scabs.

    Kamala Harris’s campaign immediately attacked Trump’s statement, with a spokesperson telling The Daily Beast that “Donald Trump is finally owning up to it: He’s built an entire career on screwing over workers. It’s exactly what he did in the White House—trying to rip away tips and overtime pay for millions of workers–and exactly what he plans to do in a second term.”

    Indeed, Trump’s statement exposes the truth behind the GOP effort to woo working-class voters. The former president’s running mate, J.D. Vance, along with fellow Senator Marco Rubio and others, have long made token statements supporting workers and unions. But, as with Trump, it doesn’t take much to reveal these statements as hollow.

    Conservatives actively work against unions and organizing, voting against pro-labor bills in Congress, with Republican-led states seeking to undermine organized labor with so-called “right-to-work” bills. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien caused a stir by speaking at the Republican National Convention over the summer, only for his speech to be met with crickets from the audience when he criticized corporations and championed union rights. 

    The Trump campaign, along with Republicans in recent years, has made inroads with working-class voters, even polling well with them. But as The New Republic’s Timothy Noah points out, every time the Republican Party regains control of the House of Representatives, it changes the Education and Labor Committee’s name to the “Education and the Workforce” Committee, going out of its way to dissociate itself from organized labor.

    Republicans, including the ones who feign support for workers like Vance and Rubio, also oppose the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which would ease restrictions on forming a union, strengthen protections for labor unions, and eliminate right-to-work laws. Trump was anti-union long before his Saturday speech, going back to before his time as president. Democrats and those who support workers’ rights need to sound the alarm to prevent Trump and the GOP from making the lives of working people much, much worse.


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  • teskeinc
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    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    That’s what he promised them when their union president visited Marlago! 🍊 piece of 💩 started with torpedoing the border bill and now he wants to reek havoc by getting these idiots to strike at this very convenient time right before election! It’s all about cheating he doesn’t know any other way to win 
    At what point do you stop blaming Trump for everything? 5, 10, 20 years?
  • teskeinc said:
    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    That’s what he promised them when their union president visited Marlago! 🍊 piece of 💩 started with torpedoing the border bill and now he wants to reek havoc by getting these idiots to strike at this very convenient time right before election! It’s all about cheating he doesn’t know any other way to win 
    At what point do you stop blaming Trump for everything? 5, 10, 20 years?
    At what point do you stop crediting POOTWH for everything? 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 years? Walking talking failure on everything remotely legitimate except scamming people.
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  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,221
    Not even on page 2 and here we are…….. let’s try and stay on topic for once. 
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    teskeinc said:
    teskeinc said:
    Get to work
    From what I've read the last couple days.
    Top wage is basically $39 an hour, and they want the new contract to add $5 an hour, each year, for 6 years. Bringing their wages to $69 an hour. 
    I've read that as of now with their overtime, many of them are making $150k a year. 


    They will get a big raise when Trump wins with no tax on overtime.
    That’s what he promised them when their union president visited Marlago! 🍊 piece of 💩 started with torpedoing the border bill and now he wants to reek havoc by getting these idiots to strike at this very convenient time right before election! It’s all about cheating he doesn’t know any other way to win 
    At what point do you stop blaming Trump for everything? 5, 10, 20 years?
    How about never go ahead prove us wrong! Did he not tank the border bill? At what point will you trust him with your daughter? I know I wouldn’t trust him with a roll of paper towels 
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,408
    nicknyr15 said:
    Not even on page 2 and here we are…….. let’s try and stay on topic for once. 
    There's only one reason, the troll who torpedoes every thread with BS. If only people would quit taking the bait...
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,221
    tbergs said:
    nicknyr15 said:
    Not even on page 2 and here we are…….. let’s try and stay on topic for once. 
    There's only one reason, the troll who torpedoes every thread with BS. If only people would quit taking the bait...
    I agree. 
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1fts9sc/harold_daggett_the_striking_international/?rdt=39178
    They are very good friends since the old days in hanging out in Queens 
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    What do you all think about demands for no automation? 
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  • What do you all think about demands for no automation? 
    Absolutely ridiculous 
    Pure fantasy
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    What do you all think about demands for no automation? 
    It’s like trying to stop the tide from rising!
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    What do you all think about demands for no automation? 
    one of those crazy demands like "remove the letter Q from the English language"
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,408
    What do you all think about demands for no automation? 
    Really unrealistic and outright ignorant. They also know that's not happening so what's their real goal? Staggered implementation at certain positions with protections for future guaranteed workforce percentages that won't be replaced?
    It's a hopeless situation...