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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is about unions trying to sabotage the economy in order to throw the election to trump. That’s ALL this is.

[b]The average dock worker earns $300,000/yr!!! [/b]I have an advanced degree and work in public service and I don’t earn that much! These are basically knuckleheads with no education who operate equipment, they’re overpaid as it is.

This is political interference. The DoJ needs to look into this immediately. [/quote]

So this is a lie. Under the current contract, the top rate is $39 an hour.  The top, not the average. At the top, a longshoreman would need to work 16.5 hours a day, every single day of the year to hit $300k.  And that’s assuming 1.5x once you hit 40 hours. Come on man. At least lie better.

Starting wage is $20 an hour. At that rate you could work 24/7/365 and not get to 300k.

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You're not including bonuses and profit sharing.  [/quote]

$153k in bonuses and profit sharing?  Part of the reason they are striking is lack of profit sharing during a period of record profits. [/quote]

There was profit sharing.  They just want a larger piece of it.

The reason their share isn't bigger is because the longshoremen don't share in the downside.  Shipping was hurting pretty bad in 2018-2020 before massively rebounding in 2021-2023.  It does not have record profits right now.[/quote]

How much do the company ceos and top management make?[/quote]

The CEO of Hapoag-Lloyd makes $3 million, of which 1/3 is stock, and the captain of a Maersk ship has a starting salary of $27 an hour.[/quote]

And they can probably live in any country they want to. Remember that when you think you're going to tax people to death.  They surrender and leave.[/quote]Where do you think they are going to live, while paying less taxes and having the same safety and freedom as here in the USA? Also we tax US citizens even living overseas. If they want to become citizens of South Africa, good luck to them.[/quote]

You mean you can’t just sneak across the land or sea border and go live with your cousin, pop out anchor babies, put them all on welfare, and work cash jobs there for decades and decades?!? [/quote]

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