America is facing a nightmare scenario with a looming strike and wrecked infrastructure after Hurricane Helene
America is facing a nightmare scenario with a looming strike and wrecked infrastructure after Hurricane Helene
A looming port strike and the Hurricane Helene fallout could disrupt US supply chains, cost $5 billion daily and drive prices up, fanning inflation.
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As an American who will be negatively affected by this...
Great! Seems like the perfect time for a strike. I hope they get what they're asking for, but if they don't, I hope they keep it up as long as they need to.
No. No you don’t. They were offered a 50% wage hike tonight, yes, FIFTY, and still declined. I import for my job. There’s SO much that comes from all over the world. It will in turn make factories come to a standstill here. Trump will blame it all on the administration, people will believe him and then we are ruined for good.
Is it 50% over 10 years or something like that? Edit: I just looked it up it's over 6 years which is 7% annual raises. This barely catches up to the past 3 years of inflation l not to mention as you work at a place you should be getting better and more useful so should be making more. 50% is a bare minimum offer and sounds like turning it down makes sense.
So they were offered a 50% hike, so what? When was the last time they got a meaningful pay increase? And if it's not the money, it's got to be something else: remember when the rail workers were on strike and the bosses made big noise about the pay increases they were offering, only it turned out that the workers were constantly expected to work double shifts on no notice, with no real option to refuse, and they had no time off for months on end? Fuck that shit, pay the workers what they're worth. If I can't buy a brand new car or some bananas, so what?
If I pay you 8 dollars and a fair wage is 15, a 50% raise is still a slap in the face.
They're not asking for a 50% wage hike. They're asking to have their pensions, which were taken from them a decade ago, to be restored.
They were offered a 50% wage hike tonight, yes, FIFTY, and still declined
If they still declined, then it pretty clearly wasn't good enough. Unless you're a longshoreman and have anything meaningful to add to the conversation, you should probably stop just blindly repeating corpo talking points.
i want them to have the entire company
Ok. And?
He's not gonna win based on that.
seems like these articles feel its always a bad time for a strike. ef off.
Won’t these workers think of Wall Street!
Striking is like adopting a pet or having a kid - there's never a perfect time, which means it's ALWAYS the perfect time! Arrange a strike and adopt a puppy today!
Seriously sensationalist headline here
It's Business Insider, that's what they do.
Well those Port Authorities better fucking pay up then I guess.
A big thing labor is asking for is a ban in automation in the port which is a totally absurd demand. Trying to hold back progress is always a losing position.
While I agree that automation seems inevitable, I know that it will be used to create downward pressure on the number of employees and their wage.
If you're competing against a machine, eventually you lose. Engineers find the solutions and fix them.
Sounds like the solution is everyone just needs to be engineers.
Defeat the fuckingcapitalists
Sounds just like a typical day in the good old USA.