As noted yesterday, President Trump has announced his full support for the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) trade union position in defense of their members. [SEE HERE]
Today, ILA Executive Vice-President Dennis Daggett releases a statement following his meeting with President Donald Trump.
To many people this confrontation over foreign ownership of critical port infrastructure seems detached and complicated when contrast against efficiency, lower prices for transportation and, essentially, a vital national interest. However, in the bigger picture President Trump has been consistent with a position that U.S. companies and labor organizations must look out for American interests first and foremost.
The chase for price, cost and Total Cost of Production (TCP) has led to our nation losing jobs, losing wealth, losing manufacturing capability and ultimately losing control over our own vital interests. The prior chase for less costly goods was a road paved with intentions that ultimately created negative outcomes for the American people (ex. The Rustbelt).
President Trump represents a new era of political leadership where the priority of the American economic system must be balanced with pragmatic economic principles extending beyond the singular issue of price. This is best understood in the phrase “economic security is national security.”
Decades of traveling down the path of lower product prices has led to this well-known destination, a service driven economy. President Trump represents a moment in our economic lifecycle where we finally revisit the consequences of this path.
Yes, a “service driven economy” it is sustainable in the short-term and provides benefits to both companies and consumers in lower priced goods. However, we eventually realize the absence of vital products creates a dependency model that can have major negative consequences.
The shortage of products following the COVID-19 pandemic should have taught us lessons about the dangers within our dependency supply chain. Alas, we escaped the worst outcome due to some quick thinking and reorganization of the limited production capabilities that remain in our national control.
The larger MAGA movement understands that we must ensure America-First is applicable to all aspects of our economic supply chain, and that includes both manufacturing capability and unilateral control of the transportation system therein.
We have discussed these issues on these pages for decades, and quite frankly I am thrilled to see a public debate now taking place thanks to President Trump and key figures within labor and logistics.
Within the role of organized labor, the leadership must turn away from the corrupting influence always made possible with enhanced power.
A transformative President Trump represents a very unique and altruistic support arm of government, a servant leader. Now the issue of altruism must also manifest in the intents and obligations of union leadership. Altruism, moral behavior that benefits our great American economic enterprise, is the core element of a partnership that can change the direction of our economic priority for generations.
Make America Great Again!
The American Awhackening begins!
The double entendre strikes again! Great job sir
American Ports. American workers. American ships built in America. American made ships staffed with crews from the American Merchant Marine. The American Longshoremen are part of this process.
Oh….I want my Canal back!
There might be another avenue that has been overlooked in the discussion of “tariffs” and foreign entities.
Biden has been in Congress since before the Panama Canal and Neutrality Treaty, where we turned over that magnificence to Panama on 10/1/1979.
When it was being ratified, for most of us down there…there was no mention of “Neutrality”…it was known as “The Treaty”….The one aspect was that the Canal was open to all nations and would stay that way.
https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/editorial/american-influence-needed-latin-america-now-never-combat-china
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3262984/management-panama-canal-ports-hong-kong-firm-poses-risks-us-house-panel-hears
Congress worked on the Canal Treaty in the early 70’s, a long term project of Henry Kissinger.
But of course he was involved in that treason, gifting the ports to China.
He opened China, elevated Klaus Schwab to be the face of the New Fascism.
WEF is a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
In service to a plan created by The City.
So true. The “Arsenal of Democracy” conversion of the peacetime manufacturing base to war production to supply WWII, would be very difficult in the USA today, after decades of offshoring.
In 1945, 25 out of 26 of the largest steel mills in the world were located in the USA. Gradually, we gave it all away. Why?
Why? This native Pittsburgher points to the greed of both steel CEOs and union brass. No investment either in new production processes nor in modern equipment. Very few labor agreements allowing blending of crafts to reduce workforce redundancy.
Isn’t U.S. Steel still operating blast furnaces built in the 1930’s? I am sure there is lots of improvement to be had there.
Nucor Steel based in NC is the largest steel manfacturer in the country. They have modern furnances and modern equipment. And, they are profitable. So, it can still be done in the USA!
I worked the mills myself, Irvin Works, Christy Park Works, and Clairton. The issue to me was the election to use cheaper foreign steel! In the 50’s and 60’s, no one could touch the quality of U S Steel! They even created a new port on Lake Erie in Ohio to get the iron ore shipped from Wisconsin and Lake Superior ports! The mills had a connection all the way back to Andrew Carnegie with the Union RR, Pennsylvania RR, and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR! The cheapest mode of transportation was by river barge! Union RR was owned by U S Steel! I can never forget the horrible smog problem the mills created! On days of a temperature inversion, one never saw the sun shining! The mills paid a rather healthy wage though. Made it a bit more bearable! I can well remember the pipe from National Tube from a good 3 miles away as well as an orange sky at nioght from the Blast Furnace! Oh the memories!
Your last sentence,”Very few labor agreements allowed the blending of crafts”, resulted in ridiculously unproductive labor in many of the production facilities. Kaiser Aluminum was one of the worst. On average 3 hrs work 5 hours doing nothing at the end of one such plant in Spokane Washington.
It was all intentional.
Period.
Exfiltration of Independence.
Long in the execution, longer in the planning.
Furthermore, I consider that the Derp State, writ Global, MUST be destroyed!!
I blame the Harvard (mostly) MBAs and the Soros types of the world. Their only loyalty is to more money for themselves and their arrogant egos. They call it good business. If you’re a stockholder you can go along for the ride until the degradation of the country ends up affecting all but the most alpha predators.
When we recognize the genuine who’s and the when’s of our plight, we can cease blaming nebulous blobs of corruption and deal with the ancient conspiracy to upend this entire world and all humanity.
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+ McKinsey & Company
One of my best friends is a CFO of a mid sized multinational corporation. He travels regularly to China, Brazil, UK, Germany, Italy. It took me 7 years but I finally red-pilled him to support Trump and acknowledge the existence of and damage caused by the Deep State. As a direct and enduring beneficiary of Globalism, he still trumpets the benefits of Off-shoring manufacturing and “free trade.” Call it a blind spot on his part or pretending not to see things but it’s difficult to persuade him that Globalism is destroying our country.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
“…it’s difficult to persuade him that Globalism is destroying our country.”
It’s not a blind spot. It’s self-interest. He doesn’t give a darn about “the country.” Corporate Globalism is making him and his partners & large shareholders rich so he’s not about to kill the goose that keeps laying golden eggs for him and his cronies.
Facts are Globalism is the new age term for communism.. example: it was once called personnel it’s now call human resources.. The redefining, or renaming of terms is a very common practice for the liberal mind and they have done a lot of it.. don’t let him forget what blow-bull-izm truly is..
I pray that President Trump will be able to show people like this that there is a better way.
We rebuilt the steel mills we bombed in Japan and Europe, then handed over the keys.
To give third world nations a chance at globalism?
In the mid to late 70’s I traveled to and worked in most of the big mills still operating in PA, OH and MD. I’m sorry but it was extremely rare to find an employee who gave a crap about the financial health of the company. The press worked overtime to foster distrust between executives and the balance of the company. It worked. I met hundreds of people in dozens of companies and maybe a dozen total individuals spoke like they were members of a team. The focus became how an employee could do as little as possible during their shift and still keep their job. Guys used to stop by the bar I worked at in evenings and brag about sleeping for 6 of their 8 hours on the clock.
Union members?
We had a company that hired from 4 different unions but we had to train the men to do our work – the unions really didn’t benefit us at all except they were supposed to give us job site access. Frequently our customers looked the other way when they could hire competitors who were non-union and therefore cheaper and the unions didn’t bother to enforce this despite my attempts to get them to enforce their contracts. This eventually made our situation untenable.
I wanted to convert to a non-union company and give profit sharing but it proved a too difficult to transition. There is a business in the NW called Les Schwab tire store that gave its workers a % of the profits and it really paid off. The mechanics would run – not walk – to the cars and you could always get good work done and the company expanded a lot. Seemed like a good model to me.
Oh well – we moved on to another business eventually where we hired independent contractors. It was a lot less harrowing.
Yes and since the Les Schwab tires always came/come from overseas / china, Schwab made his millions by participating in the globalism
Are there even US made tires available?
I was actually focusing on the employee’s attitude more than the product. Non-union employees can be fairly happy if the employer makes an effort.
Yes, continental is made in Oklahoma
Funny you should ask. I bought tires for my wife’s car and insisted that they be American. Bought a well-known American brand name. The day the tires were being installed I noticed that “Made in Mexico” was engraved on the sidewalls. Started to complain but thought what’s the use? I was wrong. I should have bought Michelins. Made in South Carolina.
I use a Les Schwab in Redding Ca. and I talked with the guys working there. The profit sharing results in the average line employee to retire as a millionaire at retirement.
There were always those types, but if it happened, then it was prolly night shift when it happened. They could well have been “inspectors” as they would check out the product every couple of hours. The mills I worked at, if you were caught sleeping, it was a firing offense! You could make real nice money if you chose to “double out” but your rear end was dragging by the end of the second shift you worked. That might well be where the sleepers were at and it was hard to do that consistently. The rate for general labor back then was in the ballpark of $8 an hour! (later 60’s) Nice money back then and if you doubled out it was time and a half or double time for holidays. Overhead crane operators had the best chance to get some zzzzs! Work your tail off for the first half of your shift allowed you to cvruise the second half if you had a good job, but most of those were taken by the older workers! (Seniority) Back in those days a new VW Beetle was just over $2000 range That was the era of the proverbial “Detroit roll” which was a roll of money ( lots of $1 bills surrounded by a ten and a twenty dollar bill).
Stupidity?
“Atari democrats”. I witnessed our deindustrialization. The Atari democrats thought we would be better off as an agricultural superpower and passed legislation to deindustrialize the USA. I used to listen to their speeches on a new service called C-SPAN. It took nearly 50 years to accomplish their goal and they have been successful beyond their wildest dreams. Too bad that we could be defeated by an enemy without our industrial base but, hey, we will have plenty of crops!
That’s it – that’s the term – the “Arsenal of Democracy” – I think that was in our Civics textbook!
“Of all the cheap ways to make a quick buck! ”
Industrial capacity is golden.
We were systematically and incrementally robbed by those who hold this, our Republic cheap.
Foreign countries and multinational corporations should not own our critical infrastructure, our land or our Congress for that matter. Many representatives have made it plain they do not represent the people.
Remember long, long ago this country had municipal utilities that looked out for the community rather than corporate profits on ledgers.
The problem of high electric bills in Norway as their hydropower is exported has them looking at nationalization.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/norway-considers-nationalizing-power-limiting-exports-amidst-european-price-surge
Thanks Sundance!
And I remember hearing….that automation-doesn’t pay taxes!
Longshoremen do!
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Good point – and they invest money back into the economy, too.
And automation doesn’t spend money.
My dad belonged to a different union back in the day…but I always remember snippets of discussion he and my mom would have about the time the Longshoremen in LA would go on their ‘annual’ strike. From what I gathered, others in the maritime industry were not fond of the Longshoremen. I don’t know who it is today but this gives them some serious legitimacy as hardworking Americans.
The docks were always a tough place to work, at least in NYC. That they didn’t work hard is just silly.
There also was always some amount of “breakage” off loading the ships. When the Irish controlled the docks
“breakage ” was widespread, but kept at a certain level.
The Italians came in bringing a gun to a knife fight & succeeded in taking over the waterfront.
Trouble was, they were better organized & started robbing the place blind, forcing the shipping Co’s to
switch to containers. Thus ending a very colorful period in dock working.
BCR = Blue Collar Republican
That should drive Schumer and all the Dems over the bridge!
I REALLY hope that schumer can’t swim!
He can’t cook burgers on a grill so he probably can’t swim either…
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Thank you to our VSGPDJT for having such affinity for the American worker, for loving our country in its entirety, and for being such a stand-up guy!
Automation would replace the crane operators, who are in the highest pay brackets. The multi-national shipping companies are concerned about their profits as much as efficiency. Maybe more.
And Chinese venues operate both ends of the Panama Canal.
If people were locked inside a shipping container screaming and banging on the walls, the automation would not hear them.
Service economy never rang true to me. It has actually worked out to the rest of the world pilfering our nation and destroying our middle class, all to save a few pennies on products that aren’t produced here? Only the rich oligarchs benefit while Americans are reduced to impoverished slaves.
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Yes! “Service economy” never rang true to me, either – it was and is a repulsive phrase. Anathema.
I believe it was an effort to ‘bring down the middle class of America’ and our standard of living… while giving a hand out and up to the HIB1 visa types and immigrants. The way they sold it to us…to make our lives easier while we chased jobs and incomes as it was rolled out. Yeah, they tricked us on that one.
Lower product price is not the actual purpose of Democrats selling our critical industries and assets to foreigners and enemies. That’s just a cover story. The purpose is to find a source willing to pay in such a way that Democrats make huge money as a side benefit. Democrats will sell their mother if it will make them fat fees. They have hollowed out America of its most strategic and economic industries and in the process created several rust belts. Yet the victims have followed Democrat criminal union bosses to keep supporting their betrayers in elections. Fortunately, that support is beginning to falter.
I hope that someday that the great achievements of Warren Buffet in being a part of hollowing out the textile industry will be reviewed.
Yeah, NAFTA and the “huge sucking sound!”
I could write entire books on the destruction of both textiles and furniture as industries. We lived it.
You must’ve forgotten the crucial fact that globalism was initially championed by the country club Republicans because the majority of Democrats in 1993 were still trying to appeal to American blue collar workers.
EXAMPLE:
NAFTA, Nov 17, 1993 at 10:36 p.m. ET. On Passage of the Bill H.R. 3450 in the House:
FOR:
All Votes – 234 (54%)
Democrats – 102
Republicans – 132
AGAINST:
All Votes – 200 (46%)
Democrats – 157
Republicans – 43
BJ Clinton gave lip service to the working class but he signed NAFTA. Obama actively led the transformation of the Democratic Party into abandoning the working class and aligning itself economically with the Globalists (via the large Democrat-majority federal Administrative State), but also expanding it’s radical socialist agenda as well.
“You didn’t build that”
-Obamboozler
The Jones Act and lack of automation is costing us a lot of money that’s getting passed on to everyone in higher prices. Ideally we’d look at ways to address this which don’t involve just laying off a ton of people, though. It’s worth enough to the country that we should just consider paying them off, as it were. We could actually essentially give them a fat sack of cash, have them help the transition and wind things down without sending any people to the poorhouse and still come out ahead by being able to do more business to get people the things they want cheaper.
I wonder if you will feel the same when white collar jobs disappear to AI.
It’s simply not possible to prop things up that aren’t productive long term. China’s ports are all automated and you can only resist economics so far, just ask the USSR how that worked.
You’re right that we’ll probably all end up unable to produce more than a machine eventually, but ideally that would lead to us all being wealthy and having leisure than being paupers with nothing. There are real questions about how to get there, though.
I’m not unsympathetic to what this does to people, which is why I was suggesting a way to unwind this, not actually harming the existing longshoremen, but trying not to leave us in the position of supporting it forever.
The problem is that we’re looking at the average person not being able to be economically productive at this rate and I don’t quite know how we manage the transition. I’m not sure anyone does. And you’re correct, it will come for me just like it will for everyone else.
The problem is that everyone else is already doing this. Our ports are the least efficient in the world. Maybe you don’t mind paying 4% more here, but do that enough times and nobody will be able to afford stuff. It’s already bad enough with Bidenflation, we need to increase total wealth.
And I think we could do that without hurting the existing longshoremen or just kicking them out of a job. They could be given good pensions and help the transition for the cost of this. But we probably shouldn’t encourage things to stay that way forever. It’ll be much nicer for everyone if we let it unwind gently, even if we literally pay all the existing people like they’re paid now, lay off nobody, and still automate.
I’m hearing echoes of the “learn to code. Get an education. Get out of the trailer park” kind of arrogance that I started hearing 40 years ago when companies began “offshoring” for slave labor.
I’ve retrained 3 times in those 40 years for a total of 4 careers. Always starting at the bottom again & always losing income. All so you a 🕳s could buy cheaper junk from slave labor around the world.
ScrewYou & establishment republican’t horse you rode in on. I’ll stick with PDJT.
Mom…buying lots of that ‘cheaper junk’, consumerism and planned obsolescence was part of the ‘deal’…I am in the same realm…only after all that moving around…then one gets faced with discrimination due to one’s AGE!
And those powers that be, get away with it.
I’m with you AG. Consumerism is highly overrated. It makes oligarchs obscenely rich & keeps the people poor.
I never bought into that lifestyle, even when I could. I’m still a simple person with simple needs that was raised by a farm girl. I still shop local, fix what breaks & pay a little more wherever possible to keep my fellow Americans employed. God Bless PDJT, America & my fellow Treepers.
In my line of work, I hire older people whenever possible. Dependable, got sense about them and know how to work. They tell me the same thing when applying.
Too much emphasis is being put on getting a 4 year college degree. The majority of them are worthless. We need to put money in trade and technical schools… Plumbers, electricians, welders, and auto mechanics are In monster demand and all of those can easily make over 6 digits a year. Build up the middle class and you build the American dream.
Kind of difficult to comply with the Jones Act without a robust ship building industry within the U.S., and enough U.S. flagged and/or operated vessels.
The disparity of shipbuilding and repair facilities within the U.S. as compared to China should be garnering more attention then it does.
What good is it to have a ton of cheap sh!t to buy if the only jobs available to Americans are $20/per hour BUT a home costs $450,000?
I am tired of people thinking that cheap sh!t equals affordable life, national security, stable supplies, save for retirement, and happy populace.
Go peddle your garbage elsewhere before you try to tell me that eating bugs, riding a bike to work, and living in a tiny home is higher culture and indicative of a successful nation.
Cheap stuff fills an emotional need while struggling.
> I am tired of people thinking that cheap sh!t equals affordable life
Making the country more productive is the only way to counter the Bidenflation we suffered.
The Jones Act is reportedly of historical significance, going back to the country’s early days. There are some interesting tidbits if one reads down the thread.
https://www.americanmaritimepartnership.com/u-s-maritime-industry/jones-act-overview/
You should remember that the cheapest labor is ALWAYS slave labor. That is what the multinationals would wish on the entire world, not just 3rd world countries and China. If these people had their way there would no longer be a “middle class” in the United States of America, or in any other “first world” country for that matter.
That’s a good argument for tariffs on places using slave labor, like China.
I’m not sure what it has to do with an idea to preserve the jobs of this union while still doing automation so that the ports become more productive and we reduce the effects of Bidenflation.
covid-19 pandemic? Lets be serious.
A beautiful example of how our President is fighting for American workers, not international bankers and billionaires.
Wow. In so many ways the second Trump tern (47) has already begun, and at warp speed.
I’m so proud to have voted three times for this amazing man, who cares so deeply and is dedicated to us.
Trumposaurus Rex is coming to town and all the commies are going down. Fa la la la la ,la la la la. Merry Christmas to all.
Deck the Halls!
The key to President Trump’s success is that he understands who keeps America running.
He is the staunch ally of the men and women who do so. The ones who Democrats ridicule and sneer at as “Walmart shoppers”.
Dennis Daggett gets it now.
The first time I have ever seen that man smile.
John L Lewis (if you aren’t a coal miner look him up) and my dear Grand Daddy, a 39 year veteran of pit mines and life long Democrat, must be rolling in their graves today. This support for labor coming from a Republican! My my how times and parties have changed!
When my husband was growing up (coal miners, eastern KY) a picture of John L Lewis was hung in the living room and I remember seeing it when we were dating (over 55 yrs ago).
Yes, they must be rolling!
Unions were started as a means for the worker to have a say. Just like government they have morphed into totally corrupt entities. Hopefully with Trump that will change.
That has been my view, as well. Good intentions often result in bad results when corruption/lack of Principle emerge.
The ILA appears to be tired of business as usual. If they truly are willing to work for moving America ahead and not for selfish enrichment, that would be huge and maybe spread to some of the other unions too.
Hopefully we’ll see pharmaceutical production come back home.
It’s crazy to think that we trust countries like China with the production of our pharmaceuticals.
Although as it turns out, our own glorious Big Pharma is at least as dangerous as CCP-manufactured pharmaceuticals.
My sister was in a hospital getting worse and worse. The doctors kept increasing her medication as she got worse. Finally the hospital pharmacist noticed her huge doses and said what the #@&% is going on??? He tested her medication. Sure enough. Made in China. Pure garbage. He whipped up the proper medication and she improved overnight, getting better and getting discharged. Who knows what we are getting in our medications?
PDJT is assembling a team of Americans who go beyond mere profits and stock prices. They are now including American workers and national security into the equation.
Instead of just chasing the almighty dollar at the expense of Americans, businesses doing business in the USA are going to have to provide job security, good pay, and become part of the communities in which they do business.
Gone are the decades of human exploitation in foreign nations for cheap payrolls, turning American towns into economic deserts, and only selling their products in America without any commitment to enhancing America.
Their CEOs are going to have to pay themselves a fair wage and give themselves fair bonuses based upon treating Americans fairly as well.
Hallelujah!
I have always been of the opinion that the head of a company should not be paid more than 100 times the salary of the lowest paid employee.
They sit on each other’s boards and give each other outrageous salaries. Some of them are totally incompetent and finally after the company is a mess they get a big golden parachute.
The company has to charge big prices for their product to pay the exorbitant salaries of management while they refuse to pay the workers actually making the company money a decent salary.
Absolutely! Maximizing profits to the detriment of national security, American workers (if the business even is open in the USA), and cities/towns of America is the way that all of these CEOs have squeezed out every penny from everyone in order to get their gigantic salaries, bonuses, and stock bonuses.
This has resulted in CEO salary/perks inflation driven up by exploitation and their contempt for the working and middle classes.
Their love of money has resulted in them having only tunnel vision in their pursuit of riches.
I know we are not supposed to comment off topic but it would be a good thing if a Sundance could comment on the drone swarms and what is happening. My husband and I saw the video shot by the Governor of Maryland and it was concerning. My husband is a research scientist and not prone to the fanciful but he was disturbed to see these “drones exhibiting non ballistic motion.
Fear Not.
Trust God
Project Bluebeam?
Imagine that, a man who spent his working life building, developing projects is respectful to those who use their hands, etc. to make a living.
Could it be because nothing would have happened if workers didn’t show up? Or is it he knows who to motivate people, he knows how to get things done?
Keeping working on your vision, I have had respect for Trump for decades…he learned how to be a winner years ago, now he is sharing his knowledge with all who will listen.
Donald Trump is my kind of guy!
I am suspicious of this development. Sure Trump wants the support of the union but, fighting automation is detrimental to the economy as a whole. Unloading/loading cargo is a hazardous and time consuming activity when it’s a manual process but automate the process does eliminate some jobs but it creates others too. Automation increases the amount of cargo that can move thru a port in a given day which reduces shipping costs to shippers and consumers which can reduce prices for everyone.
They need to revisit this on 1/21.
So, a Chinese company owns a port, they automate…. guess where the automation is HQ’d? China….
Now, consider that President Trump is going to want to impose some tariffs, Chinese Port Company decides to mess things up at the port they own and then what? No goods.
A war breaks out between China and USA…. oh dear, the ports are shut down.
So many reasons why we would not want a foreign power controlling our ports!
Is the answer having Americans own all our ports, and then, automate them?
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the port is on our soil, not really a problem
Not so. Container cranes are built in the PRC. There is a worry that spyware is embedded in the electronics and could disable the cranes. Time will tell.
to hell with unions, nothing but bunch of lazy a– commies…
President Trump has built a lot of buildings with union labor. They are not all as you describe.
I have first hand knowledge of how union locals can be totally opposite in ethics. I installed flooring with a local out of Brooklyn, NY. Lazy and thieving was the rule.
Years later I worked for a union out of Albuquerque, NM. We worked 8 hours a day. No one tolerated anyone trying to stretch coffee or lunch breaks beyond the allotted time. No one stole anything, period.
Strange too that everyone at the NYC shop was White and the Albuquerque shop had only 2 Whites, myself and another. Everyone else were “Spics” and “Greaseballs” … you know … everything wrong with the world. They were all patriotic, hard working, honest family men.
I think there is an east / west, union, nonunion dynamic that transcends race. The larger west was in my experience NON-Union. There is a vast cultural distinction between the unionized urban port city ethos, and the open rural west that I observed over a lifetime.
I concur with your east west experience, different tribes.
My husband is NOT a lazy A** commie, thank you very much! He worked damned hard his entire working life.
This is such great news – thank you, Sundance!
There are things that you encounter, that you are told are “better for everyone” – like “a service economy”
or “you need to put him in a nursing home” or “you need to let her go and her organs will benefit others, isn’t that what she would want”
that you have a reaction to like chalk in the mouth – I think that is in the Bible somewhere – the thing suggested, promoted is not coming across as beneficial to the people involved, whether you have generations of people in your family who have been longshoremen, stone masons, machinists, tool and die makers, steel mill workers whose current generations are now being told it is a “service economy” that we are now going to have here in America . . . a steaming pile of mendacity . . .
or the “heartfelt advice” given by “people who care” when you know your dear stepdad would be so scared in a nursing home, yes he has dementia but he gets along pretty well at home and as it turned out, he kept going for fifteen years after being diagnosed with “dementia, possibly Alzheimer’s” . . . the “upside” of sending him to the nursing home is that you and your Mom can go on with your lives, get more sleep, do other things . . . uh, no, how would we sleep at night, not knowing what was going on with him that very night . . . nothing would taste good in life, it would be chalk in the mouth . . .
or your precious grandmother, 90 years old with a fractured pelvis, having developed pneumonia unfortunately but you are told you need to “let her go” and sign this paper so that her organs can help other people . . . “that’s what she would want you to do” . . . well, my Grandmother isn’t done with her organs yet, she needs them because she is going to get well and back home and she did (for another nine years, cozy at home and living her life, almost made it to 100 by three weeks, was looking forward to her big party).
The so-called “benefits” proffered by those in a position at that moment to “offer them” (at your expense or that of your loved ones) are no more substantial than a harvest of chalk and no more nourishing.
Remember that picture of granny in a wheelchair, being pushed off a cliff?
Donald Trump understands the pride working people take in their labor and he respects it.
Trump understands the real bottom line and if he can bring manufacturing back to the USA’s rust belt, the South, the oil fields he will heal the soul of a lot of desolate parts of our country.
I guess hitler understood the concerns of the longshoremen too.
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Interesting? Explain yourself?
Wow, just Wow!!
I have always said I would be willing to pay more for my products if the result was my neighbor has a good job.
“Decades of traveling down the path of lower product prices has led to this well-known destination, a service driven economy. President Trump represents a moment in our economic lifecycle where we finally revisit the consequences of this path.”
A Service Driven Economy with NO SERVICE. We have Too Big To Fail in every sector of industry. Do you call Service having to call a toll free number and talk to a Bot about an issue or having to Hold for an HOUR because all agents are busy.
We have an UNSERVICE ECONOMY run by Oligopolies.
Trump’s DOJ needs to break up all the BIGS. We need small busniess to be about 90% of the economy. We need competition and innovation.
Worse than the bots is having to get your problem resolved by a man with a heavy Indian accent ‘named’ Fred.
Having worked on the Brooklyn waterfront for years and being vey familiar with the power of the unions in NYC it is no surprise to me that PDJT is for the working man. He could NEVER have accomplished what he did in NYC if he didn’t know how to deal with the unions. NEVER!
Amazing how so many so-called intelligent human beings just now get what we at this ‘house’ have known for a decade. Damn, it’s all so frustrating.
If only we could apply current day automation and tomorrow’s AI to bear onto America’s overwhelming and chronic problem of political corruption, political greed and political stupidity! AI can write legislation better than anybody on K Street, that we can even understand.
Our blue-collar billionaire Potus Trump.Hes always been #AmericansFirst.
We are blessed that God has given us a reprieve
Common sense, humanity, family, way a living finally in play .. Thank God Thank President Trump especially the millions of Americans who went to work to elect him .. Providential you betcha ..
The United States must automate and robotize the entire economy. Get rid of the Unions
Gee, that carpet sure looks familiar.
Since we are on the topic of de industrialization, unions and ports. Didn’t we used to have a large fleet of US flagged merchant vessels? What happened to those?
We can’t even manage to haul cheap foreign goods to our shores on our own ships. An economy rooted in buying cheap junk, you don’t need with money you don’t have. Failure by design.
This is a great choice for now, especially given China’s control of port automation equipment.
That equipment should be considered weaponized.
American manufacturing will fix this.
Longshoremen=slugs and thugs. Learned them trucking into NOLA in late 70’s
So the “real” president of these United States has taken his place as the steward of this nation.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6478/longshoremen-daggett-statement-pdjt
Pres Trump knows how to talk to the working man. He also knows about the logistics of sourcing and obtaining building materials in his long career as a property developer and builder.
He’s done it his whole life.
Career politicians like the Bushes, Clintons, soy boi Marxist Hussein and senile bumbling grifter and pedophile Biden do not know what it takes for a working man to put food on the table for his family. All they know is how to exploit the poor American worker by outsourcing stuff to slave workers in Chyna in return for money
I’m pretty sure Trump didn’t want to begin his term with a longshoremen strike. Trump, and his team, have a huge agenda to pass and very little time to do it in so he must choose his fights carefully. This one can wait.
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I agree that there should be no foreign ownership or management of ports and their operations. But, the Longshoreman’s union is mafia controlled and as recently as last year showed its willingness to strangle our supply chain. They need to be dealt with, Bobby Kennedy, Sr. style.
Nah. The Mob wants the billions of dollars the ILA Pension Fund has. Every so often the Feds lock up a couple of guys with no necks who get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. That’s where the real action is On The Waterfront!
The war against automation started the day the first machine came out…
It is what it is.
My thoughts, it just brings productivity at lower costs.
Needed will be techs to keep it all going.
But the trouble too is that our ports that are automated, use technology with imbedded Chinese hardware and software.
So, it is a National Defense and Security issue as well.
So, judgement would dictate we do not automate without complete and total security.
The president of AFLCIO is the one who bosses the U.S. FEDGOV unions. Her name is Liz Shuler. She might be a puppet for Richard Trumka Junior. DJT should have a discussion with Liz Shuler.
Years ago, I was the flak for Rep. Charlie Taylor of NC.
With a few Southern homily’s throw in, he chided the moneyed elite at an American Banking Association conference: If you’re not growing it, mining it, or building it, you’re just washing other people’s laundry.
Perhaps we’re relearning this lesson.
It’s their insistence on a 75% pay rate increase that disgusts me
Wrong. That is the favorite tactic used by management to divide union membership. Appeal to their greed. Has not worked so far. Membership are satisfied with their salary and understand that automation will do away with their jobs.
If you REALLY want to turn things around and take back the power Wall Street stole from individual corporations….
…..to change the MINDSET AND ATTITUDES in the corp suites…
….congress must pass a federal law making it ILLEGAL to compensate executives with stock and stock options.
MAKE EXECUTIVES EMPLOYEES AGAIN, NOT SHAREHOLDERS WITH EQUITY STAKES IN PROFIT!
There was a time when most corporations were run with mgmt’s #1 focus on customers, and employees were a close #2. Example: Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines.
Guess who was left out of that positioning? The investor class. Read: fund managers.
Guess what executives were? Employees who were paid salaries they paid yearly taxes on, same as the janitor.
But the Gordon “Greed is good” Gehkos of Wall Street HATED that. They wanted PROFITS to be the #1 focus of mgmt. But they didn’t control the corporations. Until they realized…
They held the majority of the shares oitstanding. They could vote in the board of directors they wanted. And most importantly….
If they changed the compensation of the executives from SALARIES TO SHARES, they could change the attitude and mindset of the executives to MATCH THEIR OWN.
Today’s corporate executives are not employees of the companies that they work for, they are shareholders in those companies and have nothing in common with the employees who work for them.
If Trump truly wants to bring back a PRODUCTION BASED economy to America, he MUST address the mindset and attitudes of the executive suites….to bring them back in line with the line worker.
Trump must force executives to be employees again, not “stakeholders” in the companies they run.
OUTLAW EQUITY COMPENSATION FOR CORPORATE EXECUTIVES, WITH NO EXCEPTIONS OR EXEMPTIONS.
Yes, it really is that simple.
YES!!!