Dockworker’s strike

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The unions are not showing up for Harris anyway.


Fire them all, and replace them with African American workers. It’s time for someone else to get a turn at these 300k jobs.

Stronger together; diversity is our strength.

Replace them with immigrants. We need to give new Americans a boost.

In the port area I'm from, most of the best longshoreman jobs are filled by white workers who are there because they have an in somehow. Some of my relatives are among them, and they are all Trump supporters.

I say replace them with black Americans and poor white (or other race) American citizens who need these well paying jobs. Lots of people from the mountains are going to need jobs now.

Latinos are already a larger and still growing demographic than AA’s. We need them. Those jobs should go to new immigrants, not people that have been here for hundreds of years.

No "people" have been here for hundreds of years. Everyone needs jobs. Being a new immigrant doesn't entitle someone to a particular job.

I don't know. They might have something here. The government doesn't need to run businesses. The government could provide lists of people that are allowed to work and where they are allowed to work. Companies can then choose their employees from those lists.

[Anonymous]

Part of the strike is to disallow automation. This is crazy.

Ports in Asia are heavily automated and move more goods then we do.

[Anonymous]

From Globe.com

By Hiawatha Bray

The Port of Boston closed on Tuesday morning due to the biggest longshoremen’s strike in decades. The shutdown could take a significant toll on local companies and retailers that depend on the port for access to international markets.

The strike by 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association was expected to close down Boston and other seaports on the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts, which handle about half of all US seaborne trade. The work stoppage will idle 300 ILA workers at the Port of Boston, which is small compared to other East Coast ports including New York and New Jersey. It normally serves four container ships per week, two from Europe and two from Asia.

The dockworkers union couldn’t come to terms with the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports, over pay increases and proposals to automate cargo handling, which could lead to job losses.

Some local businesses, from wine importers to furniture stores, have been on edge in anticipation of the strike.

“It’s costing us money and it’s costing us our international competitiveness,” said David Shipps-Kelly, director of transportation and logistics at International Forest Products in Foxborough, a worldwide dealer in recycled paper and lumber products owned by the family of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Shipps-Kelly said that even a brief strike will drive up shipping costs, which will be passed on to consumers. And the longer the work stoppage lasts, the worse it will get.

In the runup to the strike, companies scrambled to find ways to get merchandise ashore ahead of the upcoming holiday season. Jennifer Mehigan, spokeswoman for Massport, which operates the Port of Boston, said that traffic at the port picked up earlier this year, as companies stocked up on imported merchandise. “We already saw the surge months ago — our spring and early summer volumes were strong,” said Mehigan. “Importers have known about this for quite some time.”

But others waited until too late. Al Brari, owner of AJB Transportation, a trucking company in Beverly, said on Monday that he was getting frequent calls from desperate importers asking him to pick up their loads from the port before the Tuesday strike deadline. “They started on Friday,” Brari said. “Now they’re bugging me every minute.” But Brari said he has only 12 of the trailers needed to haul shipping containers, and all had been spoken for by his regular customers.

Robert Hurley, president of Cynthia Hurley French Wines in Newton, said it would have cost too much to buy extra supplies of imported wines, and pay to have it stored in a warehouse. “It’s not that drastic,” Hurley said. “We have lots of stock.”

Still, he said the strike would hurt. “This is the busiest time of year,” said Hurley. “Absolutely we’re going to lose sales and lose money.”

The Port of Boston is dwarfed by other US ports. Its Conley Container Terminal handled 145,000 shipping containers in fiscal year 2024 ending June 30. The combined port of New York and New Jersey, by contrast, handled a little under 4 million containers in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm all for unions, but we have a problem with this guy and the dockworkers strike with 45,000 longshoremen striking from Maine to Texas, don't we?

This is our “October Surprise.”

"ILA President Daggett enjoys a long relationship with Donald Trump going back decades in New York City. Both Trump and Daggett are the same age and were both from Queens, New York.

In late November 2023, former President Trump invited the ILA president to meet with him in Florida at Mar-a-Lago,

'We had a wonderful, productive 90-minute meeting where I expressed to President Trump the threat of automation to American workers, said ILA President Harold Daggett.

'President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S. Mr. Trump also listened to my concerns about Federal 'Right To Work' laws which undermines unions and their ability to represent and fight for its membership.'"

This was written on the ILA's website from an article in July when he told people to pray for Donald after his assassination attempt.

Notice how he called him "President Trump."

Daggett also turned down President Biden's offer to help mediate the dispute, "We will not be interested in Biden sending us a mediator if negotiations are not going well.”

If this is what’s going on, karma’s gonna hit daggett badly if Trump gets elected. All those tariffs will kill import demand and we have nothing to export. A lot of dockworkers will lose their jobs if there’s no work to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm all for unions, but we have a problem with this guy and the dockworkers strike with 45,000 longshoremen striking from Maine to Texas, don't we?

This is our “October Surprise.”

"ILA President Daggett enjoys a long relationship with Donald Trump going back decades in New York City. Both Trump and Daggett are the same age and were both from Queens, New York.

In late November 2023, former President Trump invited the ILA president to meet with him in Florida at Mar-a-Lago,

'We had a wonderful, productive 90-minute meeting where I expressed to President Trump the threat of automation to American workers, said ILA President Harold Daggett.

'President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S. Mr. Trump also listened to my concerns about Federal 'Right To Work' laws which undermines unions and their ability to represent and fight for its membership.'"

This was written on the ILA's website from an article in July when he told people to pray for Donald after his assassination attempt.

Notice how he called him "President Trump."

Daggett also turned down President Biden's offer to help mediate the dispute, "We will not be interested in Biden sending us a mediator if negotiations are not going well.”

Yep. Basically most are Trumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse - Biden mentioning collective bargaining yesterday or both sides meeting last week for the first time since June?

Since JUNE??

It is clear now that the head of this union is a Trump supporter and has not been negotiating in good faith and wants this work stoppage to make Biden look bad.

Every longshoreman I know is a Trump supporter, which is really ironic, but they don't see it that way.

Because they’re morons who can’t do regular careers because they dropped out of school and became dead-enders. Uneducated blue collar morons who never made anything of themselves but are now trying to overthrow an election by destroying the economy.

Basically it’s another J6 attempt. Same type people though. Thugs.

Anyone who doesn’t have a college degree shouldn’t vote. We need to have IQ tests before you pull the lever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm all for unions, but we have a problem with this guy and the dockworkers strike with 45,000 longshoremen striking from Maine to Texas, don't we?

This is our “October Surprise.”

"ILA President Daggett enjoys a long relationship with Donald Trump going back decades in New York City. Both Trump and Daggett are the same age and were both from Queens, New York.

In late November 2023, former President Trump invited the ILA president to meet with him in Florida at Mar-a-Lago,

'We had a wonderful, productive 90-minute meeting where I expressed to President Trump the threat of automation to American workers, said ILA President Harold Daggett.

'President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S. Mr. Trump also listened to my concerns about Federal 'Right To Work' laws which undermines unions and their ability to represent and fight for its membership.'"

This was written on the ILA's website from an article in July when he told people to pray for Donald after his assassination attempt.

Notice how he called him "President Trump."

Daggett also turned down President Biden's offer to help mediate the dispute, "We will not be interested in Biden sending us a mediator if negotiations are not going well.”

OMG a Union leader trying to lobby a politician. Should Union leaders be barred from lobbying anyone except Democrats? Seems like a ridiculous strategy for their members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse - Biden mentioning collective bargaining yesterday or both sides meeting last week for the first time since June?

Since JUNE??

It is clear now that the head of this union is a Trump supporter and has not been negotiating in good faith and wants this work stoppage to make Biden look bad.

Someone needs to disappear this union president, ala Jimmy Hoffa. This mfr needs to die

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse - Biden mentioning collective bargaining yesterday or both sides meeting last week for the first time since June?

Since JUNE??

It is clear now that the head of this union is a Trump supporter and has not been negotiating in good faith and wants this work stoppage to make Biden look bad.

Every longshoreman I know is a Trump supporter, which is really ironic, but they don't see it that way.

Because they’re morons who can’t do regular careers because they dropped out of school and became dead-enders. Uneducated blue collar morons who never made anything of themselves but are now trying to overthrow an election by destroying the economy.

Basically it’s another J6 attempt. Same type people though. Thugs.

Anyone who doesn’t have a college degree shouldn’t vote. We need to have IQ tests before you pull the lever.

Do you realize what you sound like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm all for unions, but we have a problem with this guy and the dockworkers strike with 45,000 longshoremen striking from Maine to Texas, don't we?

This is our “October Surprise.”

"ILA President Daggett enjoys a long relationship with Donald Trump going back decades in New York City. Both Trump and Daggett are the same age and were both from Queens, New York.

In late November 2023, former President Trump invited the ILA president to meet with him in Florida at Mar-a-Lago,

'We had a wonderful, productive 90-minute meeting where I expressed to President Trump the threat of automation to American workers, said ILA President Harold Daggett.

'President Trump promised to support the ILA in its opposition to automated terminals in the U.S. Mr. Trump also listened to my concerns about Federal 'Right To Work' laws which undermines unions and their ability to represent and fight for its membership.'"

This was written on the ILA's website from an article in July when he told people to pray for Donald after his assassination attempt.

Notice how he called him "President Trump."

Daggett also turned down President Biden's offer to help mediate the dispute, "We will not be interested in Biden sending us a mediator if negotiations are not going well.”

OMG a Union leader trying to lobby a politician. Should Union leaders be barred from lobbying anyone except Democrats? Seems like a ridiculous strategy for their members.

Should a union leader act in bad faith on behalf of their members to wreck the US economy to the benefit of one man?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blue collar have the power in the end. They are the only truly “essential” workers with the only “essential” skillsets. They are armed, have hunting skills and man the police and armed forces.

The slightest level of organization and they could empty the bank accounts and assets of the parasite class and correct the allocation of resources.

A garbage man has a more difficult and valuable job to society than anybody in law or finance.

Bullcrap.

Try having the garbage man doing doc review on a $1.2B acquisition. He probably couldn’t even read the cover sheet.

Stop with the trumpian working class hero tripe, it doesn’t sell here. We’re too smart to be swayed by that maga crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The unions are not showing up for Harris anyway.


Fire them all, and replace them with African American workers. It’s time for someone else to get a turn at these 300k jobs.

Stronger together; diversity is our strength.

Replace them with immigrants. We need to give new Americans a boost.

You and the PP before you don't represent the Democratic party. Which party do you identify with? Just curious

I assume you’re addressing me? I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I consider myself pretty moderate, actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse - Biden mentioning collective bargaining yesterday or both sides meeting last week for the first time since June?

Since JUNE??

It is clear now that the head of this union is a Trump supporter and has not been negotiating in good faith and wants this work stoppage to make Biden look bad.

Every longshoreman I know is a Trump supporter, which is really ironic, but they don't see it that way.

Because they’re morons who can’t do regular careers because they dropped out of school and became dead-enders. Uneducated blue collar morons who never made anything of themselves but are now trying to overthrow an election by destroying the economy.

Basically it’s another J6 attempt. Same type people though. Thugs.

Anyone who doesn’t have a college degree shouldn’t vote. We need to have IQ tests before you pull the lever.

+ a MILLION.

I’ve been saying this for years. You should have at least a BA, or score at least a 140 on the standard battery IQ tests in order to be allowed to vote

Simply doing this one thing would eliminate 90% of republicans from being able to vote. There needs to be an executive order for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blue collar have the power in the end. They are the only truly “essential” workers with the only “essential” skillsets. They are armed, have hunting skills and man the police and armed forces.

The slightest level of organization and they could empty the bank accounts and assets of the parasite class and correct the allocation of resources.

A garbage man has a more difficult and valuable job to society than anybody in law or finance.

Bullcrap.

Try having the garbage man doing doc review on a $1.2B acquisition. He probably couldn’t even read the cover sheet.

Stop with the trumpian working class hero tripe, it doesn’t sell here. We’re too smart to be swayed by that maga crap.

I hope you're trolling. Doc review on some monopoly-creating, competition-stifling acquisition between two financialized, rent-seeking companies does not add value to anyone's life.

It may help some executives get an extra vacation home though. Oh, and I guess you'll get a bigger biglaw bonus. Well done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's worse - Biden mentioning collective bargaining yesterday or both sides meeting last week for the first time since June?

Since JUNE??

It is clear now that the head of this union is a Trump supporter and has not been negotiating in good faith and wants this work stoppage to make Biden look bad.

Every longshoreman I know is a Trump supporter, which is really ironic, but they don't see it that way.

Because they’re morons who can’t do regular careers because they dropped out of school and became dead-enders. Uneducated blue collar morons who never made anything of themselves but are now trying to overthrow an election by destroying the economy.

Basically it’s another J6 attempt. Same type people though. Thugs.

Anyone who doesn’t have a college degree shouldn’t vote. We need to have IQ tests before you pull the lever.

+ a MILLION.

I’ve been saying this for years. You should have at least a BA, or score at least a 140 on the standard battery IQ tests in order to be allowed to vote

Simply doing this one thing would eliminate 90% of republicans from being able to vote. There needs to be an executive order for this.

Bring back literacy tests! Only landowners must vote! We are the party saving democracy!!