I have outlined my general opinion about labor unions [HERE]. Now we are going to focus on the realities, politics and economic outcomes from an International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike.
I mostly support the strike. I even mostly support ILA President Harold Daggett, a man of notoriously intemperate and sketchy disposition. Daggett grew up in Queens, New York, directly at the same time and place as another wildly attacked industrialist turned titan of politics. It is safe to say, they know each other; but I’ll get to that later.
Let’s turn to the issues that matter. The dockworker strike has the potential to have major ramifications against the U.S. economy. If the docks don’t work, the imports and exports don’t happen. This could be a big mess, a really big mess if it goes on for a long time.
“People never gave a sh!t about us until now, when they finally realize that the chain is being broke now. Cars won’t come in, food won’t come in, clothing won’t come in.”
This union leader makes $900,000 per year. Maybe not the best spokesperson.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 1, 2024
U.S. MEDIA – The US port workers launched the strike due to a labor dispute with employers’ group United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), after their six-year contract expired.
For their new contract, ILA wants USMX to increase wages by 77 percent over six years and bar any automation, which they believe threatens workers’ jobs.
While USMX offered to raise wages by 50 percent and keep current automation checks in place, ILA said that was not enough, especially in light of the industry’s massive profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, and inflation that has affected how far their previous paychecks went.
“We are prepared to fight as long as necessary, to stay out on strike for whatever period of time it takes, to get the wages and protections against automation our ILA members deserve,” ILA head Harold Daggett said in a statement Tuesday. (read more)
Notice how the media always present the verbiage of the dockworker’s employers as “employers’ group USMX,” without actually noting the employers’ group are the port owners, multinational shipping conglomerates and as a consequence, foreign countries.
In material fact, most critical ports in the USA are owned by foreign entities. As a result, the ILA are striking against the ideological, political and financial interests of mostly foreign entities (USMX).
Also, the ILA wage increase demand is spread over six years and vehemently opposed by the same people who tell me I just need to accept the 70% price increase in food, insurance, housing and general stuff I use all the time. I digress.
Yes, it is true that Harold Daggett is not exactly the Lech Walesa of organized labor. The ILA president is reported to earn $900,000 per year in salary, drive a Bentley and even own an expensive 76-foot yacht. There is also a better than average likelihood he may be familiar with violence.
Obviously, Daggett’s propensity toward foul language infers he did not attend Harvard and Yale, and his compensation in representing 50,000 members is heretofore designated as mafioso type income. Because only those of high-brow disposition who sit around mahogany desks in pin-striped double vested acumens, should be afforded such financial indulgences as they shuffle papers electronically to generate such personal revenue.
I understand. No, really, I do.
Remember, back when the people in Chicago were orchestrating the rise of Obama, we were confronting the purple orcs of the SEIU and AFSCME. Back then, I often said that opposing or supporting organized labor is akin to riding a dragon.
The organized labor dragon holds a self-interest that can turn quickly against any short-term issue of unified interest. It is impossible to avoid risk of getting burned, when you accept the risk of dragon-riding. Barack Obama knew how to ride dragons. Until 2016 and the rise of President Trump, our team had no dragon riders.
On the demand side of the equation, beyond the compensation demand of the ILA (Daggertt), the ILA wants to eliminate the threat posed by automation. Many voices say this is a ridiculous demand; after all, when you combine artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and remote access capabilities, it is clearly predictable that a time will come when 80% of the ILA jobs can be replaced by remote controlled operational systems.
In China, many industrial ports are already fully automated and operated remotely by people using what look like gaming consols, robotics and computer screens.
US #Port Strike by 45,000 Dockworkers Is All but Certain to Begin at Midnight who doesn’t want automation. Meanwhile in China – pic.twitter.com/4C8p1eCT8H
— sceptical_panda (@sceptical_panda) October 1, 2024
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This brings me to the main point that most overlook.
In Asia and Europe, port automation is happening rapidly. However, in Asia and Europe they have rules and regulations against foreign ownership of their ports. In Europe, Asia and particularly China, ports are considered critical national security infrastructure by the politicians who represent the people. In the USA our politicians represent the multinational corporations and as a result we have sold the majority of our ports to Saudis, Qataris, Europeans and Chinese owners.
If Chinese ports are automated in China, they are operated by Chinese owners. If American ports are automated in the USA, they are operated by Chinese owners. It doesn’t take a genius to see the problem.
Fast forward to 2035, all of our critical ILA members have given up and gone to work for Wal Mart in the face of overwhelming opposition against them by a short-sighted American electorate. The children of the dockworkers are now addicted to prescription narcotics, and the docks are automated by German industrial machinery, facilitated by Chinese technology that was purchased by Chinese owners. The machinery is operated remotely by Chinese, Indian and Pakistani workers getting $5/hr.
After seamless integration, China decides to take the geography of New Zealand as the latest strategic notch in their Belt and Road initiative. Wait, wha… the American politicians shout, “this cannot stand.” But it does, because if the USA tries to make a move against it, the docks in the USA are brought to a halt by China.
Sound crazy?
‘Crazy’ was 9-years ago when CTH was warning about a weaponized FBI operating like the Russian FSB. ‘Crazy’ was our warning that a DC-based intelligence apparatus was conducting surveillance of a presidential nominee. ‘Crazy’ was our alarms ten years ago that various interests of the DoS and DHS were deep inside the mechanisms of social media, controlling the content of private conversations. THAT was then considered “crazy.”
What we are talking about now against the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and remote automation, is not crazy; it’s predictable reality if the efforts of the ILA fail.
Now do you see why I support them.
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We have a dragon rider who not only understands the stakes. He’s also smart enough to ride the dragon while wearing an invisible suit. That invisible suit is why we call him the “blue-collar billionaire.”
Just because Silicon Valley has shifted to replace wingtips with sneakers, doesn’t mean the outcome changes. And yeah, keep using class warfare in your arguments and efforts to make me hate Harold Daggett, and I’ll pretend not to notice the Balenciaga label on your T-shirts.
Perhaps the best compromise would be a two-issue dynamic:
♦ First, all foreign ownership, influence and control over USA ports must be eliminated. ♦ Second, 100% of all equipment, machinery, hardware and software, used in every aspect of the port automation process, must be manufactured inside the United States of America.
Put those two qualifiers into the port contract negotiations as expressed by ILA President Harold Daggett, and watch what happens.
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Longshoreman’s wife speaks out about the port strike.
⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ej6sFtlrq3— Jen (@JPo1369) October 1, 2024
Yes. But we must resolve to only buy American, local source goods and services. Yes, that costs a lot more. But as long as we continue to choose to buy the cheaper, Made in China/India/Pakistan/Vietnam/Anywhere but US products and services we’re still empowering and funding our oppressors.
I get it, we’re on a budget and all, and it’s hard to find local source products, often impossible. But we need to resolve to local source or do without. As long as we buy imports we’re the biggest source of the problem.
I consider our corrupt politicians, evil bureaucrats, and all of the other sell outs to be the biggest source of the problem.
I am an American. We built a economic powerhouse country and used to be able to live comfortably quite easily. We should not have to “do without”.
THEY are turning my lifestyle into a “getting by or barely getting by”.
Now, you want Americans to “go without” any comforts, luxury, or necessities if we cannot find it American made. Thanks for advocating for Bill Gates/WEF “You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
They want to deprive us of gas stoves, regular freon, gas vehicles, real meat, washing machines that actually clean clothes, fuel to heat our homes, and other necessities for a modern lifestyle.
“…local source or do without.” You want us to suffer but do you really think that the elites are going to join you in your monastery/hut living lifestyle?
Enjoy your velvet-lined yoke and chain. Don’t forget your slave mask.
That America you describe is gone. It was an illusion in the first place. You’re stuck in Imagination Land, wanting all your comforts without doing the work yourself. Fat, lazy Americans, bourgeoisie class, make the best slaves, imagining themselves above sacrifices. Wanting cheap imported goods – cheap because they’re produced with slave labor in oppressive, corrupt nations – as their right. Oblivious to the fact that structure is what makes them comfortable slaves, so comfortable they won’t rebel. Being a rebel means hardships will be your reward. Keep fighting for your oppressors to protect the gilded cage they’ve created to contain and impoverish you.
The smart frogs are jumping out of the warm pot of water. The not-so-smart frogs are about to get boiled…sipping champagne and eating escargot. Watching themselves on the Food Network show playing on their Made in China 82″ Plasma TV mounted above their “hot tub.”
So PDJT is lying about Making America GREAT AGAIN??
It never was GREAT??
I’ll stick with his vision of the USA rather than your negative, poverty driven mindset.
H/T Billy Joel:
I’d rather laugh with the Winners than cry with the Ain’t-s.
Nice volley, guys. FF had me thinking but OurLastStand with a nice return takes the set.
I don’t think you’re an enemy of the values I have and share with most Treepers. But you’re hung up on some language or other issue that’s causing this rift. This is a no-pretending site. I read your words as being stuck in pretending.
What was ain’t what is. That’s fact. That’s always the fact of life. Especially when what was was built on illusion, unsustainable. Your description of a USA that was is a description of what most of us not pretending have come to learn the hard way was an illusion.
Can America be great? ABSOLUTELY! Again, the way it was? Nope. That’s gone. Illusion shattered. Never coming back. And we shouldn’t want it. That was an America where our ignorance was bliss. It has its appeal. Like it was for Cipher in the first Matrix film. But it wasn’t real.
How does America become great, truly great? By building the best America we can be. Using the abundance of the natural resources found in our own nation, with the inventiveness and productivity of strong, self-sufficient Americans. Who value freedom and independence, embrace risk in order to achieve reward. But for real. Sustainably. Not built on outsourced slave labor. Not over-regulating industries out of business. Without global elitist parasites gorging themselves on our innovation and toil who then let the real producers fight over the table crumbs they leave us.
Reality checks kinda suck. Like learning that Santa Claus wasn’t real. Or there was no tooth fairy. Growing up into a grown-up mindset and understanding of the world as it really is, not as we imagined it is a buzz kill. But when we come to terms with what is versus what we thought it was is when we can go about creating a reality that lasts, where we have the most power and influence over our lives and world around us, and aren’t reliant on systems others built that benefit them more than us.
Grief has a lot of stages. I’ve been through most of them. Sounds to me like you’re still stuck in one of the earlier ones. It’s ok. It’s a hard process. I know that your being here on CTH will help you with it, you’re further along than most of your friends, family and neighbors. I believe in you! You got this! Go, team reality!
I think you gave me a clue as to your age range: “But for real. Sustainably. Not built on outsourced slave labor. Not over-regulating industries out of business. Without global elitist parasites gorging themselves on our innovation and toil who then let the real producers fight over the table crumbs they leave us.”
We didn’t used to “outsource labor”. We did it ourselves. All of it. We weren’t over-regulated either. We built stuff and it worked and we made a living.
How old are you? Maybe too young to remember what we had and why we are so angry.
I’m old enough to have slept with your mommy before you were born. Kiddo.
We DID outsource our labor. That’s exactly what the Bush Dynasty was all about. Put up by the Rockefeller’s and Carnegie’s and all of the same banker industrialist Fascists who invented and funded Hitler, who profited off the wars, spilled the blood of Americans from the Heartland, Flyover country, the Deplorables. Same elitists class of eugenicists who Hilter modeled his mass murder model after, Buck v. Bell and all. Same elitists class who built up Mao on one side of the ledger while funding the Nationalists. Same who fund Israel on one side as they fund Palestinian terrorists. War is good for business. Ask Schumer and Lindsey.
Yes, OUR government regulated businesses off shore. Regulatory and compliance policies that are too expensive and too restrictive to make the profits the big multinational corps wish to keep for themselves and their BlackRock/Vanguard investors. Environmental regulations that make it impossible to do business economically. Labor requirements. Health and other insurance mandates placed on employers as if that’s a part of making a product.
Yes, built on slave labor. Chinese labor camps where the disobedient are sent, work for 5 cents a day. Other nations that do the same. Because slavery is the most profitable economic model ever invented by man. Our system that built the US to be the Global American Empire (GAE) that made its fortune getting other nations to use their own populations as slavery…so we can have cheap televisions and plastic crap that constantly breaks, planned obsolescence, good for business and all.
You gave me a clue that you’re an idiot and buffoon who still drinks the Kool-Aid you were raised to believe was our nation, our propaganda told you was so. While those in the shadows were violating every single thing they say they and America stands for. You must’ve been born yesterday to believe that problems just started in 2020, or 2016, or 2008 or 2000. or 1992, or 1972, or 1963.
This shit has been going on a long, long time. The illusion. It was comfortable for a long, long time. The illusion. Back when I was sleeping with your mommy before you were born it was comfortable. But it was an illusion. Kiddo.
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Black pilled FF. I’d place him as a “Boomer” from the liberal side of politics. Nothing is “gone.” It simply has to be restored or rebuilt. The constitution is still valid without our courts and within law. All of the violations simply have to be addressed and corrected. It’s only gone and never to return if you’re dead or don’t care to fix anything.
Realist. Lifelong liberty and freedom fighter. Volunteered on Ron Paul’s first presidential campaign in 1988. You’re not very good at reading people. I’d stop trying if I were you.
It’s tragic to see so many people still clinging to the myth of our nation instead of realizing it’s always been a myth. Even from the moment the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay, wrote “Those who own a country ought to govern it.” The owner class. BlackRock. Vanguard governing the US is the nation envisioned by one of the most consequential founders of it. How’d that much vaunted US Constitution protect you in 2020? And since? How’s it protecting free speech? National borders? Free and fair elections? The whole “cruel and unusual punishment thing working out for J6’ers? Right to speedy trials for them?
Address the violations? Ha! Years after the injuries and indignities are suffered, after we’re all dead, maybe. Maybe not. But the Constitution works? Ha. Ha. Ha. Make my belly ache from laughing so much.
Situational awareness doesn’t mean you don’t work to address a foul monstrosity of a governing system that’s been built around you. Especially when we realize after the curtain is pulled back that it’s been like that since before any of us were born.
What situational awareness does is allow us to create the system we thought, we imagined we had. But for real. Not illusion. You and your ilk are still desperately clinging to the illusion. Because you’re unwilling and unable to do the really hard work of building a system that we only imagined we had. It’s so much easier to reach for the curtain and try to pull it back in place so we don’t see how hard it will be to make turn the illusion into reality.
From The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance:
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
You and your ilk want that legend to be fact so much you’ve printed it in your heads. But it’s not reality. Not pretending is a lot harder than going back into the illusion like Cipher in The Matrix. A whole lot of Cipher’s out there. Who should’ve taken the blue pill if they couldn’t handle the truth.
Crap – stirrer.
Whether is WAS better or not, the Constitution and the belief in something better is enough to make the country what it should be. It doesn’t actually matter whether we are going to Make America Great or Make America Great Again. We know what needs to be done.
It’s not just about being greedy Americans. We buy cheaper imported goods because the U.S. no longer manufactures almost everything we use. What limited manufacturing we still have costs more and almost all of them also depend on imported goods to manufacture their products. We’re way beyond the Buy American slogan.
Look for the Union Label.
Classic ad. Imagine if we actually did that instead of embracing “global trade” as our business model. Because it was cheaper.
This is true. Which underlines why we must make American. Even more. At the local level. Every community should have blacksmiths, woodworkers, supply chains of ore, timber and other raw materials. Machine tools, etc. We need everything it takes for modern life replicated in our communities, trading as locally as possible if we lack. Reinvest in America is our only way out of the global dystopia planned ahead. The best time to have planted the seeds for this restructuring was twenty years ago. The next best time is today.
Gear down to gear up…
That cheap slave labor exists in the very country Joe Biden took millions from so that when he got into office he could acquiesce to China and give them favorable policy. But millions have no problem with Biden. Dems are liars and hypocrites.
Corruption is a problem of opportunity.
1) We aren’t WATCHING them all that closely
2) They see their buddies getting their “extra” and will actually be foolish if they don’t participate (think about how drivers violate safety and law in their driving and commonly benefit from it… you’re a sucker if you don’t do it too)
We individually might be watching and pushing, but the public at large don’t care and will disinvite you to family gatherings if you talk about it. As a society we’re responsible for it. No more “bread and circuses!” We have problems to address.
Maybe we need to get worse than now before people will understand. As it stands, the majority of people with which I have contact not only have no clue, but are violently ALLERGIC to wanting to know or understand any of it.
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appreciate this article and your comment a LOT!
i can 100% support this strike if it eliminates:
avocados from peru (not even mexico!),
oranges from south africa,
honeydew melons from honduras,
mandarins from argentina,
apricots from Kazakhstan,
ditto myriad produce from costa rica, chile, etc., etc., etc.,
and keeps our USA grown food here in America!
no imports needed!
But agriculture experiences seasons. Growing season, harvest season, fallow season. It makes sense to go where the harvest season produces the product in demand at the time.
Many crops can still be grown out of season in greenhouses.
Enough demand for domestic produce might be incentive enough for entrepreneurs.
I even know of one such business in Maine that cultivates tomatoes year-round.
https://www.backyardfarms.com/
perhaps, but so often imported produce isn’t worth the money at ANY price –
most often noticeably lacking in taste, texture, degree of ripeness.
even wholesomeness is problematic as third world standards for growing and harvesting are not as strict as they are here (and even then, we have recalls).
so, unless you cannot survive without a tasteless, rock hard lemon from brazil in january,
seasonal shopping is very doable.
plus, many American farms and produce growers have online stores now.
and, as RFBurns points out, greenhouse growing is a booming market in the U.S.,
and not just for niche or exotic items.
it’s really sad what american consumers are forced to choose from.
california, texas, florida, many other states grow the best-of-their kind produce in the world.
i think we should have first access to our own products.
(want to know what a peach REALLY tastes like? try a South Carolina peach in season.😊)
And seed must be Heirloom seeds. The frankenfood seeds that aren’t Heirloom end up being about as flavorless and nutrient-deficient as what Big Ag grows today. Heirloom seed that you can use to grown new crops. Natural soil and fertilizer, glyphosate-free. Made with love and care (plants take on our energy, impacting flavor and nutrition.)
The imports may not be tainted with mRNA or Apeel coating. Yet.
Perhaps nightsoil though
Always wash before eating.
i would think they would be the FIRST to be affected as imports are the products of multi-national corporate
growers which wouldn’t blink an eye if those additives improved their profit margin.🥴😳
Glad you get it. Many stuck in the illusion who’ve responded under my comment missed the point.
kind of you to say.
let’s call it “hopeful pragmatism” . 😁
We’re not “stuck in the illusion.”
We’re ignoring your obnoxious arrogance and bile.
Wow, it’s a wicked world? Everybody else is stupid?
Jeez, you sure are smart.
Yes, it’s wicked, yes, we were lied to, yes, we are stupid and trusting.
That’s the facts on the ground, those are the conditions you have to work with.
So deal with it as it is, smart guy.
Are there exceptions to your buy local rule? Think medications. The best readily available source for Ivermectin is India. I’m not traveling from WA to TN to get it over the counter. TN pharmacies do not provide mail service. Most of my medical specialists are Chinese, Indian, Korean. Would you consider their services “local?” Many prescribed meds are not manufactured in the U.S. Shall I advise my health insurance company I only want meds made in America?
Yes, I have deliberately taken your premise to a somewhat ludicrous length. You may want to reconsider your somewhat Draconian parameters, because there are exceptions that would prove lifesaving for many Americans.
“Yes, I have deliberately taken your premise to a somewhat ludicrous length. “
Somewhat?
One must apply common sense to everything. There’s a big divide between needs & wants.
Medications?!?!?! LMAOROTFL!
How about calling them what they really are: Poisons! You want your poisons, you need your poisons, you believe your poisons are saving lives. Because the propaganda-driven Rockefeller chemical-industrial model of “health care” told you that their products are saving lives.
They are poisons! Do you understand? Is it even possible to break through the brainwashing that allopathic medicine is death medicine even to the freedom supporters on CTH, even after pandemic masks, deadly biotech forced injections, medical system that cuts off boys penises and girls breasts to match their psychological illness, you still give that type of medicine any credibility?!?!?! It takes a whole lot of willful ignorance and denial to still think that Big Pharma medications are anything but poisons or that your medical doctor actually cares about your health and life.
I can’t fathom how so few took a look around the last few years and still put their faith in a system that wants them sick, sick, sick, And dead, dead, dead. By every measure of financial profit and loss. If there was ever a time to step outside the lies and poisons and find true health and wellness in the natural healers its been since 2020. Homeopaths, Naturopaths, Ayurvedics, Herbalists, TCM, all of the natural healing arts are leaps and bounds superior to allopathy. Without the iatrocide body count (2nd leading cause of death in the US is death by doctor.)
These disruptions are opportunities to restructure our lives to more natural ways, more harmonious with the natural world, provide better health, longer lives, superior products that last, aren’t disposable, provide dignity in working hard, providing for self and family with something made by ourselves or our neighbors. All of these disruptions to what was have been forks in the road that we get to decide to travel down. We can decide to go back to the illusion of ease and comfort that the GAE gave us, our Global American Empire that requires the slavery of others to serve us, our needs, only to find out that we ourselves are who’s being enslaved. Or we can decide to recognize the real world as it exists and build our future on what the rugged individualists who first settled these lands did, provide for themselves living off the land, not getting into anybody’s business around the world, trying police and exploit it.
Yes, there are some exceptions to my premise that come with benefits, though we must question at what cost. But I can assure you that your example of medications isn’t one of them. Those who want them are no different than the junkies who hit up their dealers for their daily fix. Only difference is the lobbyists for Big Pharma drug dealers in DC make their poison drugs legal.
Small note, the best readily available source for Ivermectin is your small, local feed store.
Or rather, was, I believe the pajundrums are messing with that too.
I bought my horse paste and liquid surrounded by hay bales.
Agree, Fionnagh, Himself is demanding people reinvent their entire lives, or kill themselves.
If only this one would learn to package his ideas without spitting on the audience,
(as many small producers doing their part are already doing.)
I try to buy American, but not American that forces its workers into Unions. Unions put a stranglehold on the company by demanding salaries, pensions and healthcare for life. Unions raise the costs of products for the consumer. If their demands aren’t met, they try to strangle you.
This is not patriotic talk from a patriot–that they’ll put the country in a world of hurt. I wish all of them would be fired and new dock workers, non union, added to the labor force. Their buts deserve to be out on the streets.
Consumerism is highly overrated. It keeps people poor & makes oligarchs filthy rich.
There’s a great big divide between what people need & what people want to have.
Being ruled by consumerism is not different than being ruled by genitalia & they end in the same place. An empty & unsatisfying existence.
Buy American & keep your fellow citizens working!
Wow! This changed my mind. I had thought that automation was inevitable and the East Coast workers didn’t necessarily need to be paid like West Coast workers. However, anything that rakes the globalists over the coals, I’m for. Gig ’em
I’ve been virulently anti-union since my teen years when AFL-CIO had the auto industry in its grip at a time the environmental movement was nascent and the “oil crises” made high-MPG cars desirable. I was an early joiner (14 y/o) in the environmental movement (sorry! so sorry!!!) and was PO’d that auto industry would be prevented from competing to produce high-MPG cars because the unions (were reported) to be asking for wages that would cut that possibility (as my adolescent mind understood and believed). At least that is the way I remember it. I’ve marveled at my mixed up thinking for so many decades: pro-competition, anti-union, yet supporting f*ng Dems for all those years. SORRY!!! (PS, I also read one of Ayn Rand’s novels, I think Atlas Shrugged but I can’t recall…influence??? Maybe so.)
Anyway, Sundance has helped me to think about unions differently. I can see the usefulness in the private sector, and I can see the usefulness of this strike. So appreciate the manner in which Sundance sets forth the political and economic realities. There are never any easy answers.
I read the link that explains the photo of DJT & Daggett. I strongly object to removing Right to Work, or at least any provision that requires union membership in a unionized workplace. I understand that non-union members may benefit from union negotiations. But requiring my participation in an organization whose politics and methods I disagree with seems to me to be un-American.
Between my sophomore and junior year of college I got myself a restaurant job; when I completed the employment paperwork upon starting my first shift, I noted that I was REQUIRED to pay union dues even if I didn’t become a member of the union. NFW was I going to accept that condition, and walked away from the job after my first shift. Later, I was invited to interview for a high level job in a unionized workplace and I said “no thank you.”
I don’t know what the solution is. Unions brought to the US workforce many benefits, such as limited working hours and time off, and child protection (although this latter thing may be a mixed bag). Clearly this strike has its points in terms of the US workforce. What might happen in a truly free market environment???
I am going with what Treeper Mr. Kitting says: Trust God, Fear Not.
Unions are where you go to lose your individual right to negotiate your own salary based on your merit.
We are not in a good place right now to get our republic, as intended, back
Unions are fine, if not for everybody. I belonged to 3 of ’em, as a young man. Bad in government, obviously. But elsewhere, collective bargaining is a good thing.
Again, they are fine, yes…if you want to give up your natural right to negotiate your own rate of pay based on your own merit.
If you leverage collective bargaining to get your money, that’s a good thing.
I choose not to, but that’s me.
We make choices. They can all be good, for each of us.
Yep, everything is a tradeoff.
How much of that negotiating was going on before the advent of labor unions?
Asking for a fren.
The answer to everything is God and our adherence to Biblical morals. Without that-the sinful nature of man will corrupt and destroy everything it touches. Yes Unions can be very beneficial -unfortunately when we don’t live in a society guided by morals, law and Justice- well you see where this all goes.
Maybe 20 years ago, I was talking to a young man visiting from another country. He told me that he found it strange that Americans seemed to think membership in a union was a bad thing, whereas at home they thought it was a good thing.
I told him that I believed the public perception of unions went sharply downhill when the auto workers, who were at the time making maybe 17 bucks an hour, at a time when some people made maybe three dollars, kept going out on strike.
Those “agency shop fees” you mention are another reason.
I’m not positive, but I think the Supreme Court just ruled against those.
I know teachers had to pay union dues whether they joined or not, but they would get blamed for the excesses of their unions.
There always has been and probably always will be a tug of war between labor and management in one form or another.
Unions brought us “weekends”, but those and holidays are a thing of the past for many Americans.
“I know teachers had to pay union dues whether they joined or not, but they would get blamed for the excesses of their unions.”
When I think of all the money teacher unions spend on demonRat issues and candidates, I feel sick. It is because of their power that they closed down schools during covid. Conservative teachers (there’s many more of them than you think) must grit their teeth knowing their dues support demonRat causes. Yes, I realize this is a public union but a prime example of how most unions have outgrown their usefulness. It’s just politics.
I was working with a community college years ago and I had to deal with 3 unions at once, all demanding something different. These reps were justifying their existence by creating issues that didn’t exist. Horrible experience! I don’t know about private sector unions, but I imagine they suffer from some of the same issues by virtue of being a union.
Trump needs a picture of Xi Jinping’s house.
Actually he needs Klaus Schwab’s, Larry Fink’s & any number of sellouts both in public office & private industry.
Without them, nobody would know who Xi is.
Thank you, Sundance. I got very angry when I watched the Daggett interview. But now I have a better perspective.
Just an FYI: Here in Central Texas there is currently a panic and people are buying up toilet paper again. A man at the grocery store today told me that the Houston Wal-marts have been cleaned out of everything – not just toilet paper. My friend in Arkansas says the toilet paper panic is there as well.
Panic buying is incredibly foolish. The majority of TP is manufactured in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
I think the toilet paper panic buying ahead of covid was orchestrated, to gin up fear.
What a great point, Clarion. Now it totally makes sense.
If they can organize Floyd riots as far away as Finland, sending out a few agents to start buying a mini-van’s worth of TP would be easy duty pay.
Just as mask wearing was to visibly gin up a very public sense of fear & foreboding.
That same idiocy happened here in our Walmart – N E GA mountains. Many Floridians here at the moment … and quite a few people from two counties to our east in the NC mountains.
Remember when the cell phone service in rural Northeast Georgia went bust because there were so many cell phones in the area bc of storm refugees from Florida that the towers couldn’t handle the load? On top of that, Georgians in surrounding metro Atlanta have the mental mindset that, “it’s not far, we drive faster,” and the slow poke Floridians driving at 35/45 mph were clogging up the roads. It was a nightmare that was as bad as a snow day in ATL.
Happening in Tennessee too, but our problem is compounded by the fact that we are purchasing and trucking into East Tennessee and Western North Carolina to help people.
I am trying to understand the impact on the election. If biden Is pressured to invoke Taft Hartley to stop the strike then trump gets more votes from union workers.
If Biden does not stop the strike then gas prices soar and trump gets more votes from consumers
Before Trump, it was a win-win for Dems and RINO’s because our frustrations multiplied on every stunt they foisted on us! Now, we have a useful way to harness that frustration, turning it into a very good voice for CHANGE!
Second thought: Maybe we’re seeing the end of some “phases” like; Bigger is always Better! Don’t buy quality, buy cheap more often! Democrats are the party for the Working Man! Foreign Aid is good so they benefit from our success!
Yes, I think Biden/Harris are going to reap what they’ve sown. Which is why Alinsky tactics are in high gear. The people at the tippy top are getting upset. LOL.
My thought is that Biden and Harris have absolutely no intention of doing anything to make anything better. How can they hand us over to their Chinese masters if we have a thriving economy?
Unconfirmed
But here is a grenade…
https://x.com/RealRawNews1/status/1840857856083472642
The child trafficking is the Diddy story the media just won’t cover. I love the dock workers raising the issue here!
There is a reason, RRN gets it wrong 99% of the time;
https://realrawnews.com/about-us/
“This website contains humor, parody, and satire.”
The editor/owner created the site to mock MAGA/Q and others, per his own words in an interview.
For those who didn’t or won’t click on the link — some longshoremen want to know why they hear screaming children inside some of the containers.
The fact that that is “a parody site,” is real, raw evil…because in foreign ports, they HAVE been finding piles of dead bodies in containers. That mockery is meant to dismiss the very real industry of Satanic human trafficking, organ harvesting, and adrenochrome addiction as just another “conspiracy theory.”
Big Corporations have known about this
possibility for months.
From reports, those with the funds and
space have already stockpiled their
warehouses….
It is the small business owners who didn’t
have the funds or space, or the knowledge
that the contract was expiring on Sept. 30
that will be hit the hardest.
I am wondering how much this stockpiling
helped Biden economy numbers. 😡😡
I am also wondering how much the big
corporations like Lowe’s, Home Depot
and Amazon…basically the same players
who made out like a bandit during Covid hoax
will be jacking up prices.
I am seeing the small businesses being the
ones suffering once again, if the strike
continues for a long period.
I am with Sundance, Riding the Dragon.
This is much more than the Longshoremen,
but who owns the ports, and the shipping
companies.
I supported Truckers, and I support the Longshoremen.
💁 🤷♀️ 💁
Just because they don’t wear a fancy suit, have a
college ed-u-ma-cation 🤢 doesn’t mean they
should not be paid for a more vital job than
a cube rat paper pusher.
This. The Blob long ago set out to destroy small business. They can manipulate this strike to help their death quest.
Hey Horseface, we got a floater.
Sorry, but there is NO SUBSTITUTE for humans in almost any interaction, especially with a transaction that involves the internet, money or real intelligence as opposed to AI.
Everywhere I go they are trying to replace humans with robots and it ain’t working.
I go to Acme or other supermarkets and it’s self checkout all the way, no employees in sight. I refuse to self check out and have walked away from my shopping cart if I can’t get a person to check me out.
Same thing with Home Depot, Michael’s, Shop Rite. Also refuse to deal with ANY merchant who will not accept CASH.
My dad was a longshoreman back in the day and I can tell you whatever these guys make, they’re worth every penny. It is truly dangerous work that can literally kill you.
Thanks very much to Sundance for pointing out things that nobody else wants to mention in this dispute.
Literally ever since Stalingrad in WW2, the military has tinkered with weather control, for originally possible battlefield use.
The weather defeated the Germans, not the Russian defense. Today, the weather is being manipulated by both the U.S. and the Untied Nations via a “cover” treaty.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 9, No. 8 Publication Date: August 25, 2022.
Collapse of Earth’s Biosphere: A Case of Planetary Treason
Find and share this. Among all the other issues that Sundance eloquently brings forth, this discussion of ripple effect,
and prior socio-communist decisions ( Port National Security ) is paramount to understand. Be blessed.
One way to see what you’re talking about for oneself is to go to the official NORAD or possibly the National Weather site. (A contractor working at my house showed me some years ago.)
It had a real-time feed showing live cloud cover. The clouds over an entire region were moving in the same direction, of course…
But then he pointed out weird “stations”- neither of us had any idea what they were- in different states, mid-South.
Zoom in, and around these stations, and only there, the clouds were standing straight out, like spokes in a wheel, completely contradictory to the larger cloud masses moving around them.
What the heck?! What WAS that?
Where in our society did citizens adapt to the Biden/Harris inflation regime the quickest? Which group responded immediately by raising prices to match inflation…even skirting by a few percentage points for more profit?
A natural response, if one has a somewhat “monopoly” within our business community. I would say the “professional class” went first, followed oh so closely by big business. Think of a flowing river…and who is downstream?
The workers, laborers are downstream…they get the crumbs to adjust for inflation, along with those on fixed incomes (read social security, or other government handouts…including the base workers in government). Simple math tells anyone with a pencil that if inflation is now at 20% (or higher) yet one’s income has only been increased (adjusted) by 8%, they are behind by 12% in real dollars. Aggregate numbers for sure, but when grocery shopping there are lots of items up by 50 to 125 percent; so it’s a game of picking and choosing how one spends his/her income.
When you show no respect for those who use their muscles to do work…what do you expect to happen? Ergo, they band together (forming unions, a group dynamic) and push back. The Longshoremen have such a leader it appears!
She makes some good points but PLEASE, lets not make the Longshorement out to be “heros” and breaking their backs for the American People. Thats not why they work. ALSO what will the 1) strike 2) the no automation clause and the 3) who knows how much of a raise do to the Prices of the goods we purchase????
In my opinion, and your questions are valid, that’s not the point. Someone, somewhere, has to make a stand against what the Globalists have in store for us. It’s been one long chain of abuses. I would be happy to suffer or be uncomfortable for however long it takes to break the backs of the politicians and globalists. They do whatever in the hell they want regardless of how we vote or what we want or need.
I hope that a few fat cats can’t get what they want for dinner. I hope they run out of really important, to them, stuff. I hope they can’t supply their bunkers or fuel their private planes. I hpe service people far and wide stop servicing them in particular. I hope the whole thing grinds to a halt. Yes, people will die, but we’re gonna die anyway if “they” have their way. LOL.
America held hostage: Day 2.
Biden can simply invoke the Taft-Hartley Act and impose a 90 day cooling off period where the dock workers return to their jobs and negotiations continue.
Biden said he wouldn’t interfere!
Only a federal judge can order them back to work. If it happens, then they will just work slower.
Nope! Biden can invoke the provision of the Taft-Hartley Act that gives the President the authority to enact a cooling off period in matters involving railroads and ports.
It’s been law for a long-time. If the longshoremen continue with a slowdown the IKA Union will be fined millions of dollars until it stops!
Throwing sand!!!!
Also called “Irish democracy”!
Biden is too busy, mobilizing FEMA and miliraty assets to respond to the crises in the NC and TN mountains. /s
The Taft Hartley Act won’t do much to alleviate the problem. According to the union leader, instead of his people moving 30 pieces an hour, they’ll just move 5.
Something will be moving, that is the point.
♦ First, all foreign ownership, influence and control over USA ports must be eliminated. ♦ Second, 100% of all equipment, machinery, hardware and software, used in every aspect of the port automation process, must be manufactured inside the United States of America. – Sundance – Amen and Amen!
Third all farmland owned by China, other foreigners or Bill Gates must be returned to American farmers.
Fourth “Big Ag” must be must broken up and farming returned to farmers.
Fifth all life saving pharmaceuticals must be manufactured here not in India or China. JMO
Longshoremen wages?
These people are retired. They are the protected class. They do not work. Their pensions are free from city and state taxes, their medicare premiums including IRMMA are reimbursed by the state and their health insurance is free.
https://www.seethroughny.net/pensions
You should look at Railroads…
“ The ILA president is reported to earn $900,000 per year in salary”
That’s only about 15 times what the average American (that he’s holding hostage) gets.
This is the salary of the CEO who sells mostly imported goods that are shipped in from foreign countries
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon’s total compensation for the last fiscal year was $26.9 million, which is 976 times the median compensation for Walmart employees. His compensation package includes:
Base salary: $1.5 millionStock awards: $19.6 millionOther compensation: $5.8 million
“Employers group” triggers the same red flags as do other euphemistically flavoured, Globo-fascist engineered words.
“Birthing people”
”Chest feeders”
”Front hole”
”Bonus Hole”
”Minor attracted persons”
”White privilege”
“Undocumented immigrants”
”malinformation”
Etc.
Words invented by degenerate zeros, for use by even bigger zeros..
Oh my God, Sundance… THANK YOU.
I hadn’t yet posted anything online, or even talked with people in person about any of this. All I had said was a couple remarks to my wife that a 70% raise seemed outrageous. But that was because I was led to believe (by much of the media) it would happen all at once… but now thanks to you and some other reading I’ve done over the past few minutes, I realize that raise would be spread over a 6 years, and it might not wind up being the full 70% in the end anyway. HUGE difference, and so that part of the longshoremen demands is now okay with me.
Similarly with the automation part. I just kept thinking that fighting increased automation was a losing battle, since almost never in history has that been successful. As technology advances and spreads, it WILL be adopted more and more, and most people will eventually come to support it. So I felt similar. HOWEVER now that you bring up the fact that so much of it is owned and controlled by foreign companies/countries, I totally understand what you’re saying. And so THAT part of the contract negotiations — the automation part — I now understand too. The question is, can the ownership/control aspect really be addressed here? Can the union actually demand changes be made so that everything eventually reverts back to American ownership/control? If so, then yeah… this strike could wind up HELPING in a lot of ways.
You do realize ownership and automation are two separate arguments? One is about who sets policy/receives the spoils/controls, the other is about competitiveness.
A US firm that cannot produce low cost (comparatively), quality products will still lose out in the long run. From just the raw economics of it, labor costs are generally the highest cost center in any large enterprise. While corrupt politics/business market power has been part of the reason for the migration of industry overseas, so was the inordinate influence of union/labor pay demands (everyone is aware of the pension for life deals after 20 years employment auto unions were able to demand during the halcyon days; I had HS friends in the auto industry who used to joke about the neighborhoods in Detroit lined with these fortunates at 40+ years old). That’s a fact. At some point, it could not compete. Luddite approaches to technology change eventually backfire as well – see Bessemer versus basic oxygen furnaces to understand where the decline of the US steel industry began.
Reality is that this ILA sideshow is somewhat about standard-of-living and very much who pays for it. Whether anyone acknowledges it or not – it is also about redistribution of income. The union decided to strike at a time when it could threaten greatest damage. Good for them! But if it lands up costing me in the long run – folks like me will migrate out of the slogans and join forces with folks (non-leftists, Marxists – they exist) who will fight what they see as trading one power node overburdened with hubris by another. Don’t ever kid yourself: if this turns into real class warfare (what the rhetoric implies), all sides can do damage but none have the power to prevail in the long run. Permanent class warfare. No one “wins”.
Fire away “great Americans”. I don’t care at this point. I can sense when the loyal opposition is morphing into what it despises.
Rid the system of corrupt politicians. Check.
Restore rule of law. Check.
Clear the bureaucracy of recidivists and Deep State agents. Check. Though this will me much harder to do than some imagine.
Restore accountability. Check.
Reduce the huge inequities in wealth distribution. Check. Though how this will be done should prove interesting.
Restore the security of our borders. Check.
Restore security in our cities. Check.
Restore the integrity of key societal systems (e.g., voting). Check.
Restore affordable Federal/State/local budgeting. Check.
Reinstate the historical mission statement for our military. Check.
Remove political/cultural warfare from key institutions (e.g., education). Check.
Other gripes on the list I believe we share common ground on.
A full agenda as it is.
But dictating where capital should flow? Managing the economy (what is implicit in many comments here)? Getting into the weeds of who should own what? That’s been tried before -and we all know not only by whom but how that worked out.
Good luck!!!
Capitol should flow back into the country, as should tax spending.
“In the USA our politicians represent the multinational corporations and as a result we have sold the majority of our ports to Saudis, Qataris, Europeans and Chinese owners.
If Chinese ports are automated in China, they are operated by Chinese owners. If American ports are automated in the USA, they are operated by Chinese owners. It doesn’t take a genius to see the problem.” [From this Article]
*****
America and Americans are slowly being choked to death economically. … Vote Donald J. Trump in 2024, otherwise its death for Americans.
😎👏😎👏😎
I immediately saw positive potential in the capacity for the strike to remind Americans of their power to organize, stop working and get the government’s attention. We all bellyache about the abuse we take from our government. Not enough of us recognize or focus on where our power lies:
1. We are major consumers. We can bring down Anheuser Busch’s best selling product by organizing and not buying it. Ditto for Target and any company, brand, or product we choose.
2. We are major producers. We can bring the US economy to a halt with strikes, “sick outs”, etc.
3. We are the source of funds in the U.S. Treasury. If we were organized and had the dragons and dragon riders we needed, we could do much more to affect “the power of the purse” than kibbutz online and talk to the deaf ears of our elected representatives.
Cheers to the ILA for reminding all of us we have far more power than we have been willing to tap into so far.
Best comment of the day!
That’s what Solidarity did in Poland.
One million upvotes for your comment, Austin. I have been telling people we need to organize, choose 2 weeks a month to go on strike as workers, students, no buying or selling during those 2 weeks. This madness could be stopped dead in its tracks, yet no one hears. Maybe this strike will do the hard work for us, work that we were unwilling to do, each one of us.
ILA workers at Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles make $250,000 to $300,000 a year and steal anything that’s not nailed down.
Ask me how I know??? My next door neighbor is one!
Interesting claim since ILA only represents the East and Gulf coast longshoremen.
The ILWU represents the West Coast.
Different unions!
Different unions? It’s the ILA on the West Coast too. His T-shirts all say ILA. It’s different locals and management bargaining groups but the big ports all make the same kind of $$$, BK.
you must live in a nice neighborhood.
Well, it would be a whole lot nicer if the asshole moved and took his three tosix attack dogs with him!
Is there something wrong with that?
Many EO’s in place to allow biden/harris to take over everything by delegating it to fema in a national emergency.
The union got a good last minute offer but refused it.
This strike can be used by the regime to stay in power by proxy via fema.
In a national emergency EO’s are in place to give the head of fema total power.
The president is not n conttol any longer nor is congress.
This is why the fbi spook said to arm yourself, stock up and pray.🙏🏻
Oct surprise?🦨
If the FJB/Harris admin tried to do this, there’s a risk of a cascading event where the rail and trucking industry joins in solidarity with the longshoremen, then it becomes national and out of their control.
3) Every aspect of U.S. port operation must reside in the U.S. (preferably in the same state as the port.)
In China, many industrial ports are already fully automated and operated remotely by people using what look like gaming consols, robotics and computer screens.
I would imagine it would be easy for an antagonist to shut it all down. EMP weapon do it in microseconds.
You’re conflating two different things: peacetime conduct of business/trade – and warfare.
In warfare, employees can be killed pretty easily also.
These guys make upwards of over 135k. And they want an 80k increase??? They can kiss my ass.
Try $250,000 a year!
But operating a fork lift takes 8 years of collage.
You cannot imagine how dysfunctional the guy is, too. He can’t even put his two garbage cans out without falling over one of them!
“…we have sold the majority of our ports to Saudis, Qataris, Europeans and Chinese owners.”
If I were a country that wanted to weaken and destroy the US economy and I owned the ports or had influence over the owners. Why would I allow any deal?
Listen to what Daggertt says will happen as the weeks go by. The union will end up doing the dirty work for our enemies. Let the U.S. economy collapse. Win the war without firing a shot. America destroys itself from within.
I am so old I remember when Chuck Schumer stoofd up to foreign control of American ports.
Chuckie was just negotiating the price of his cut.
If the strike continues past January 20th, can newly-inaugurated President Trump nationalize the Ports (the way Truman did the steel industry)? It would be temporary, but then he could orchestrate American companies taking them over, and then work out the automation issues over the next few years. Could be a tremendous boon for the American economy and our security in the long run.
From Sundance article:
Perhaps the best compromise would be a two-issue dynamic:
♦ First, all foreign ownership, influence and control over USA ports must be eliminated. ♦ Second, 100% of all equipment, machinery, hardware and software, used in every aspect of the port automation process, must be manufactured inside the United States of America.
Put those two qualifiers into the port contract negotiations as expressed by ILA President Harold Daggett, and watch what happens.
EXACTLY!!
Looks like America first policy doesn’t it?
A Port strike doesn’t just stop imports from coming into the United States, it stops our exports from going out. This is not just going to inconvenience consumers. It is going to put a lot of American workers out of work. When the exports start backing up in the ports, the workers who make those exports will be laid off. All because a fifty percent increase in pay for people already making $40 an hour isn’t enough? Sorry, this strike is evil, exactly as you would expect from this wannabe mobster.
Shipping companies have the HOUTHIS to thank for this:
Container lines make $5.4bn profit amid Red Sea disruptionAfter six consecutive quarters of falling profits, container lines rebounded in the first quarter 2024 with rate support from geopolitical disruption.
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/containers/container-lines-make-5-4bn-profit-amid-red-sea-disruption
I don’t support the strike
they don’t need an increase in pay when the economy
is in shambles and people can’t afford the goods they are off loading
they already make more than most other blue collar workers
the union is against progress, meaning automatic loading
and unloading systems. the union bosses want to keep their
thousands of employees so they can get the union dues
however, automatic systems would get the process moving
more quickly and should also afford higher paying jobs
keeping the machines running smoothly
anyone who loses their job should be trained for another of
equal or better pay
SD you’re not crazy. You’re just smart. I mean not “make all the money I want and screw everyone else” smart. But you’re smart! 😉
“Now do you see why I support them.”
Yes, clearly, thank you.
Stack up cash, and the ILA will settle, including the automation issue. This Daggett guy has 45,000 members. He needs 22,501 of them to vote yes. Classic labor relations here. No tricks here, other than by the owners who violated the last contract.
Our host is right, it’s the larger issues that should concern us. I recommend some massive antitrust actions with our ports, and the rest of our economy, too.
Blow it all up. Blow up BlackRock. No way should they control $7-8T of wealth, not in the US for sure.
Give me 1 honest antitrust court, a dozen forensic accountants, and a dozen federal marshals. I will create some competition, and kill off some political corruption, too. The Deep State will likely be firing bullets at me too, though.
The globofascists use these massive multinationals to usurp our Constitution, and buy our government. Let’s break that party up.
China owns ports in Europe already. Germany and Greece.
They also run the Panama Canal.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many of the illegal aliens that are coming into this country are starting off from Panama.
Incredibly good point, Rix Six. When Mayorkas last went to check up on his facilities in the Darien Gap, the Chinese compound there was off-limits to Westerners.
Never mind the victims of the hurricane, has anyone started a GoFundMe for these poor destitute strikers yet?
But why at end of this administration? What do they hope to accomplish? War yes? Historically, it used to bring the country together. Now it doesn’t. Seems all these really bad things are just before the election? Weird timing? I know they want to put it in Trumps lap.
Basically make it where he can’t move. Then get 2026 midterms.
Does the media still think people will blame Trump if they bleat it out 1 week after inauguration?
Oops. This was reply to Dallasdan below.
This is not a traditional and legitimate labor dispute and strike, it is a carefully and purposely timed hostage negotiation in which the American economy is the victim.
Thoughtful, as always.
The man-against-machine battle has been fought for centuries. This is another skirmish. The people who figure out how to solve port logistics problems will make a lot of money while the longshorman watch their jobs disappear.
Next is figuring how much of those pensions are a Ponzi scheme; if there aren’t enough union dues paid in, will the retirees’ pensions vaporize?
I’m blown away by this Sundance. I read this site and still sometimes fail to comprehend. Thank you for pointing all this out!
I stand with the longshoremen. Our economy and country has been destroyed by outsourcing everything to (pardon my French) freaking China. The goods that we are now forced to purchase are pure crap. We have overflowing landfills because stuff doesn’t work and constantly has to be replaced. It’s all crap. I don’t think it’s possible to explain to my children just how far we’ve fallen as a country. They just think, “There goes mom again on a rant.”
Automation solved NOTHING. Outsourcing solved NOTHING. A.I. will only exascerbate the problem… you’ll be complaining to a freaking computer. Let that sink in. EXCEPT for those at the tippy top who became rich at our expense, the rest of us got shafted. And now we have a country and infrastructure in shambles with very stupid people at the helm.
People who do not understand this are stupid and hopeless. I am prepared to hold out as long as the longshoremen need.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!! Hey Liberals, isn’t that what you used to shout??
Where are the chips coming from for all this automation?
Taiwan and Israel.
Fun fact, the first union was organized by Karl Marx for longshoremen in Munich.
Note that our government is rushing to make sure that the remaining manual labor jobs are filled by foreigners at low wages, should any American workers such as coal miners or longshoremen become obsolete.
“Learn to repair robots” is the rightwing version of “learn to code”.
As if everybody was a blank slate with the same talents.
Really now, people are getting too upset about some maritime transport interruption that Pete Buttigieg will take care of right after he completes his important work of repairing roads and providing essential goods to North Carolina! Trust the process! Give the man some time. /s
etc.
He’s still racing to repair rail transport of hazmat chemicals!
The MSM hasn’t prepared the sheep for the BRI yet.
This lying by omission and flat out lying, similar to when Walz knew he’d have the last word during the debate and his CBS gatekeepers would turn off mics and otherwise help prevent Vance from fact checking him, is interesting in that it gives a timeline of when BRICS and the BRI will start effecting our economy and must be mentioned.
Clearly it will be after the election, but depending on who wins, the sheep may find out sooner rather than later how much the dollar has been ravaged. Watching just the MSM and propped up stock market, the sheep may be in for a shock.
Yep, my neighbor drives a truck and pulls from Charleston SC port. It’s all about the automation to replace workers. It’s already happening in China owned Long Beach CA ports. They’re trying to stop it from happening on the east. God Bless em but I don’t see it happening. People woke up too late to stop the globalist push across our country.
Maybe the only way to maybe stop the bleeding (of foreign ownership) at this point is to have real inspectors (in a Trump administration) go over every square inch of ports and find a million violations no matter how petty.
Because you know foreign owners will never sell back to US based companies. Not even for triple the price they paid.
JMQ: The longshoreman’s union needs to seperate the automation issue from the globalism issue. Globalim is the problem, not automation. A lot of new jobs will be needed to automate ports and keep all that technology running properly.
You know, that’s right, the other half of union services is providing skills training.
Johnny Cash live John Henry Steel Driving Man
HUNTSMAN
@maphumanintent
No one in the ILA/USMX labor dispute is acting honorably, or in recognition of their critical role in the US economy.
Biden-Harris doesn’t have the stones to leverage Taft-Hartley four weeks ahead of the election, and Daggett knows it.
He also knows that ports are an abstract concept to most Americans, and to the extent Americans know anything about ocean carriers, it’s due to the piles of containers in terminals, ships anchored offshore for weeks, and massive supply chain issues from 2020-2022.
USMX will probably bend the knee here and play petty games for years while our un-automated ports continue to age into obsolescence and spend upgrade capex on Chinese-built cranes, control systems, and other infrastructure.
All of this is aided and abetted by the China-controlled Jones Act lobby and a few ruthless SES sprinkled around the Navy and Coast Guard who hamstring any legitimate effort at reviving the American maritime industry.
If Trump is elected and doesn’t go scorched earth on the whole rotten maritime system, it will be our wasted final chance to avoid sinking into second-tier status as a global power.
https://x.com/maphumanintent/status/1840953812351099082
I don’t care what our status as a global power is. We have mostly everything we need right here. While I agree it’s a tremendous resource we have in terms of consumers, we’re destroying our consumer resource with inflation, poverty and homelessness. It’s only getting worse.
We have lost pretty much EVERY technological advantage we’ve ever had already. It’s already Trump’s missing to bring back things to the USA for many reasons and especially national security reasons. If this isn’t on the agenda, we have to MAKE it his agenda.
Automating the ports would solve another messy issue for the regime…
https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/1841226069975973911
Exactly! AUTOMATE the ports and fire 90% of the overpaid drug-smuggling thieving criminals in the ILA! Ports in China and the Netherlands are completely automated with robots and computers. They still need thousands of highly paid port workers but the criminal element is gone!
SO what Your saying is the same drug cartels who are loading fentanyl into container ships with automated cranes wont be able to unload the container ships with automated cranes? How is that an argument?
SD told us why that’s not a good idea.
I agree with him.
We’ll say the same thing when they automate your job
Omg
“We have mostly everything we need right here.”
Including lithium and quartz, which are definitely on someone’s agenda…
Biden I the fog of dementia probably thinks Taft- Hartley is an ice cream flavor