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Black Hat or White Hat? This didn't materialize out of thin air this close to the election.

Ceffer says

Black Hat or White Hat? This didn't materialize out of thin air this close to the election.

Both sides did it. The ports think Biden will cave on invoking Taft-Hartley or whatever while the unions are prepared to slow shit down otherwise anyway, as that guy in the video sez.

It's totally lose-lose for Harris & Democrats.

If Biden intervenes, Trump will blast them as pro-Chyna, anti-American worker so that college elites can still get their spoiled brat goodies. If Biden doesn't and the ports shut down, Trump will have even more ammo to throw at Harris because the spillover job losses.

While the media has conspired to keep this off the air as much as possible.

Making imports more expensive is a good thing, as we need more manufacturing jobs in the US.

The fight against automation is absurd, just pushes our ports further behind.

Ports make a fortune.

RC2006 says

The fight against automation is absurd, just pushes our ports further behind.

Other countries have automated their ports. Unions fight it because scabs can't easily do their jobs in a strike but probably could if it were more automated.

RC2006 says

The fight against automation is absurd, just pushes our ports further behind.

Yep, and why should these assholes be protected from tech? Everyone else has been dealing with tech advancements for decades. This should be handled the same way Reagon handled the airport strike back in the day. Fire all of these fucks and put in scabs. If I understand correctly, most of these guys make well into the 6 figures with bennies you'd die for. Longshoremen don't work hard any more than a truck driver works.

zzyzzx says

Making imports more expensive is a good thing, as we need more manufacturing jobs in the US.

You'd have to change regs and increase competition. Lots of entrenched players in America and too many regs/red tape.

GNL says

Yep, and why should these assholes be protected from tech? Everyone else has been dealing with tech advancements for decades.

Agreed - these are guys are total asshole thugs.

Yeah - total scumbag.

"Harold Daggett, the ILA boss who pledged to "cripple" the United States, owns a 76-foot yacht, a Bentley, and gets paid over $900,000.

He was acquitted on RICO charges after the main witness against him, mobster Lawrence Ricci, was found decomposing in a car trunk in New Jersey."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1841157562344833334

GNL says

Longshoremen don't work hard any more than a truck driver works.

Truck driver works harder. It's more like an airport baggage handler. Truck driver is putting in max hours or he doesn't get hired if they're independent contractors. Of course within limits of the hours they can drive in 24 hours.

I know we have one on the board here, longshoreman, but can't remember the user name. Out in CA. The comparison to baggage handlers for flight is they load and move, then pause for the next plane and walk around. They get more breaks than anyone by default.

If there's not a container ship in port that YOU are unloading, what are you doing? It's not a constant flow. No different than the post office. Light mail day and you done in 6hrs instead of 10. But get paid 10. That's how it works from my understanding. They get to strike at least. USPS can't.

I not a fan of unions. I can live with prevailing wage laws though. Certain jobs should be higher than minimum wage. Unions are a racket. Wife's company had to drop 6 figures to make the unions go away even though they were paying the laborers the same amount as a union member. They were just trying to get union members jobs. It's legit mafia style. Legit threats. It's not Hollywood movie bullshit. It's real.

Unions made sense at one time, but those times should be done.