CNBC – U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers are set to go on strike at midnight on Monday with no talks currently scheduled to head off a stoppage threatening to halt container traffic from Maine to Texas and cost the economy as much as $5 billion a day.
The labor contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union representing 45,000 port workers and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) employer group expires late Monday, with negotiations at an impasse over pay.
A port strike will go ahead starting Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET, the ILA said on Sunday. The USMX “refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation,” the union said in a statement on Sunday. more
Gosh, they only want a 70% raise.
Their desired rise is merely 70%.
The union leader uses Marxist vocabulary and is making demands he knows cannot be accepted.
The Dems must be desperate, creating a bidenomic crisis for an early October surprise…though I’m not sure how they think they benefit from appearing ineffective, distant and callous. Oh. Right. They’ll blame it on Trump.
Wouldn’t it be funny (not haha funny) if they replaced them with illegal aliens?
70% raise over 6 years. Nothing like leaving out an important piece of info…
I haven’t and won’t do the research on how many raises, and what they were, over the life of the union.
But, in this f’d up economy it might be devastating for those who actually work for a living and have families to provide for.
I am no fan of unions as they don’t readily allow increased wages for people that work their ass off which in turn encourages laziness. But a strike now of this magnitude would result in people being laid off in a multitude of indrusties.
And yes, the union has the USMX and our country over a barrel, and they know it.
Reference article I neglected to include:
https://apnews.com/article/port-strike-ila-dockworkers-begins-e5468e760f46a64e4322d1702beb1f72
Fire them all and hire illegal aliens for five bucks an hour with no benefits. After all, that’s what the union toadies voted for.
They know they can’t win in November, so they are going to create as much turmoil as possible so it will take President Trump’s whole second term to get it all straightened out again.
Can’t imagine what Trump will get done in 4 years with our full force of a government that hates him. Even the military does all it can to not do their jobs, along with border guards and their BS. Crash and burn for the US may be the only way to get things fixed right.
Do what the socialists do: start hanging them until the rest return to work.
Simple solutions for simple problems.
They’re a bunch of over-paid, lazy, cry-baby mother-fuckers – all tough guys until you put nooses around their necks.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
All of set up for October surprise. Commie-la will swoop in and settle it and everyone will say “she’s so presidential “
Meanwhile Jackass Joe sez he’s settling the Israel/Hamass crisis with collective bargaining…
Alot of US Ag is shipped out via these ports.
Eventually the entire world will hate us. Thanks Brandon!
Dumb ass union boss gave an interview, and he was all decked out in the “Mr. T starter kit”.
Not a good look in this economic climate.
I guess the narcissistic jack ass never heard the name Hoffa.
No one is home in tje biden white house, except biden’s crazy idiot wife trying to play “president”.
No one in the ‘biden’ admin cares. They’re busy destroying from within. Biden’s idiot wife is playing ‘president’.
It’s hard to believe how suicidal dem voters are.