I’d compare negotiations for this strike to be somewhere close to the Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal. Impractical stipulations that are unobtainable. The longer this goes on the worse this will get the worse it will be domestically and internationally. Implications unknown other than adding to already a basket of inflationary pressures. Grab your 🍿 we have front row seats to the shit show. 😅
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Soft landing cancelled? Recession incoming with mass inflation and huge layoffs?
Why cant they route the ships to Mexico, unload them there, and then truck them through the southern border?
If I were a businessman I’d make a Mexican trans-American shipping company to cash in on this.
Hell I could even claim they were “hencho en Mexico” and avoid China tarriffs. And I wouldnt have to pay American dockworker wages.
3 for 1!
Imagine proving the necessity of automating your job by striking because you don’t want your job to be automated.
I think these threats and actual harms will make people realize how important it is to automate these vital functions ASAP, and there’ll be little public support against it. I don’t think it’ll be a win for them in the long run.
Dude has a gold chain, you know he means business and eats gabagool.
I swear ive sat next to this guy in every casino ive ever been to. And he’s always equally as entertaining
This almost sounds like economic sabotage and blackmail. Knowingly planning to hold parts of the USA hostage. Short term they make get some crumbs, but long term they’re going to get fucked for it.
Guarantee that the ports are doing cost analysis while they’re striking, to calculate the costs of going fully automated.
I think the dealerships are good… LOT of inventory on their lots that ain’t moving. Fuck these guys, automate the shit out of the ports, probably less smuggling as a lot of these guys have records. The Mexican Mafia owns Port of Long Beach.
Knee cappin, toe tappin, hoe slappin
this reminds me of a Joke, about all the body parts, that think They are the most important Part.
The Brain, The Heart, The Liver, But in the END (IT”S always the Asshole) the most important part
Criminally underpaid at $900,000
The high your labor cost the greater the incentive to automate. Why do you think this dude wants to stop automation in his contract? He sees the ominous threat on the horizon.
Great. I’m gonna lose my job because of this fucking tool. Maybe they really aught to automate the ports
He has solidified the case for automation.
Asking for a 77% pay increase over 6 yrs is very aggressive
As soon as those longshoreman scab contracts reach 100k I’m down.
All the more reason to automate these jobs. No one should have the power to shut down the supply chain.
Straight Gangster? this guy is a modern day union thug. This signals that automation is going to be a top priority for the ports, to avoid this mess in the future.
The wage improvements are a bonus, the real battle here is against the automation. But I think the real problem that they want to address is that the government has no plan in place for when there will be mass unemployment due to automation. Neither do any of the presidential candidates. And companies are sure as hell not going to pay you for life if your job gets automated. Any physical labor, low skill job will be automated in the coming decades. What is the plan in place for when that happens? Should we just have less kids so they won’t end up on unemployment? Should we have UBI? Should we regulate automation, or have half-n-half automation and subsidize people labor? Nobody is giving any plans for this inevitable outcome. And I say inevitable because AI is here to stay. It’s clear that companies are more worried about under-spending than over-spending because they don’t want to spend that money on hiring new employees, only on training models and data centers. They want to obsolete people as soon as possible.
Then you might say, “well if people can’t work, how will they spend money to buy the products these companies produce?”. Well remember we have the money printer, we’re already in over our heads in debt, we can get into more debt if it keeps the economy going. It then just becomes theater, bread and circuses, the late stage of the empire.
I know guy who worked as a longshoreman. It is literally a mob or gangster job. You can only get the job if you are ” in the family”. You can’t get the job if you don’t a have a referral from someone in the job. Those that retire will only give the job to someone they know or referred by someone else from within. The guy I know is retired and doesn’t have to worry about money. When he retired, someone within his family got it, no education needed. Want to know how the guy I know got the job? Ask his father. Want to know how his father got the job? Ask his grandfather.
Starting salary for these guys isn’t $63K like what’s posted online, it is maybe double. There’s a fucking huge amount of corruption and nepotism at these ports and most people would never think about it. Now that automated machines are coming after their jobs, they are afraid of the castle crumbling.
“Third week: malls start closing”
Are there still malls?
This guy just said a mall will close in the third week without receiving clothes lol
These guys are making 6 figures and this A hole is close to 1M a year. I hope they fire all of them. This is greed nothing more.
He sounds like delusional egotistical fuck.
This guy is nothing but a greedy piece of shit. He’s gonna end up hurting his own personnel in the union. If everybody else has to go without do they think there is some magical wand that’s gonna provide them with the goods we all want. What a dope.
1st week, negotiate to end it
2nd week, scabs
3rd week through 8th week, scabs
9th week, workers come crawling back and get worse terms than they have now
85th week, headcount is drastically reduced by automation, as the strike made it clear there is an unacceptable vulnerability in their business model
Welcome to playing hardball when you’re unskilled, replaceable labor. What a moronic thing to do.
Fuck this stupid cocksucker. I have a 1 month old who needs a specific formula and guess what, it’s already wiped from the fucking shelves with no restock in sight.