International Longshoremen's Association Strike

[Ernie]

International Longshoremen's Association Strike.
Strike began October 1, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-eas ... 024-10-01/

[R7ehr]

International Longshoremen's Association Strike.
Strike began October 1, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-eas ... 024-10-01/

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

I’ve drove container trucks to the port and had to deal with their infantile petty behaviors.

They should all be fired.

[Signtist]

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

I’ve drove container trucks to the port and had to deal with their infantile petty behaviors.

They should all be fired.

Meaning unclear.

[Ken]

International Longshoremen's Association Strike.
Strike began October 1, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-eas ... 024-10-01/

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

I’ve drove container trucks to the port and had to deal with their infantile petty behaviors.

They should all be fired.

They did destroy container shipping in Portland and killed all their own jobs over a long fight with the electricians union over who gets to plug in refrigerated containers. Different coast and different union though.

[R7ehr]

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

I’ve drove container trucks to the port and had to deal with their infantile petty behaviors.

They should all be fired.

Meaning unclear.

It is a matter of some difficulty to regard with esteem the manner in which certain labors at the docks are conducted, nor can I find much sympathy for the remuneration they receive. From my own encounters, having once been engaged in the conveyance of goods to those quarters, I observed behaviors that were, at best, unbecoming and rather trifling in nature.

One might be inclined to believe that a thorough reordering of such affairs is long overdue.

[Ken]

It’s too bad BOTH sides can’t lose this one.

Because the shipping companies they are striking against did an absolute enormous amount of profiteering during the pandemic by tripling shipping rates and pocketing hundreds of billions in windfall profits and being a major cause of the inflation spike we had in 2021.

[mike]

It’s too bad BOTH sides can’t lose this one.

Because the shipping companies they are striking against did an absolute enormous amount of profiteering during the pandemic by tripling shipping rates and pocketing hundreds of billions in windfall profits and being a major cause of the inflation spike we had in 2021.

Shipping and trucking rates were crazy for sure - leading among other things to a large influx of new truck drivers to the industry, which was then part of the reason for the subsequent crash we have seen more recently. Plenty from every type of trucking business, from owner operators to whole trucking companies, have gone out of business. I.e. Yellow Freight, the largest bankruptcy filing in trucking history.

It evens itself out. Let the market do its thing, the money they have made can be lost pretty quickly.

[Grace]

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

The White House Press Secretary disagrees with you. Today she said these very hard working longshoremen deserve better wages, better benefits etc.

[R7ehr]

I’ve no respect for longshoremen’s work ethic, nor pity for their pay scale. They are a bunch of overpaid babies who haven’t put in an honest day of work for decades.

The White House Press Secretary disagrees with you. Today she said these very hard working longshoremen deserve better wages, better benefits etc.

I don't know who the White House Press Secretary is, and it is obvious that she knows the longshoremen the same.

Or...maybe her job is even less of an honest job than theirs, and from her perspective they are working hard.

[Ken]

It’s too bad BOTH sides can’t lose this one.

Because the shipping companies they are striking against did an absolute enormous amount of profiteering during the pandemic by tripling shipping rates and pocketing hundreds of billions in windfall profits and being a major cause of the inflation spike we had in 2021.

Shipping and trucking rates were crazy for sure - leading among other things to a large influx of new truck drivers to the industry, which was then part of the reason for the subsequent crash we have seen more recently. Plenty from every type of trucking business, from owner operators to whole trucking companies, have gone out of business. I.e. Yellow Freight, the largest bankruptcy filing in trucking history.

It evens itself out. Let the market do its thing, the money they have made can be lost pretty quickly.

That is what is happening. Labor is part of the market too. The relationship between the longshoremen and shipping companies is just a market relationship like the relationship between the shipping companies and their customers.