Dock Workers Start Strike Tomorrow... Ports from Main to Texas Effected (Stock Up, Basic Goods about to Triple in Price)

«They carry the goods 100 feet with minimal risk and think they're more important than the truckers and seaman that face much greater risk for lesser pay? They're like waiters in restaurants thinking they deserve 25% of a products value just for carrying it ten feet.»

«All of these unions are corrupt. Kevin Piper, the "president" of local 269 Longshoremen is one of the worst offenders. He receives bribes from local businesses while acting like John Gotti. These are not good people. These are some of the worst, most corrupt people running industries like this. They need to be stopped from tanking this country.»

«Kevin Piper, the president of Local 269 Longshoremen is a corrupt asshole. He is legit taking bribes from local businesses. These unions are corrupt to the core.»

«But if we stop bringing in goods on the east coast while continuing , or worse, increasing our imports into the west coast, I heard from a reliable, anonymous source from the 4th congressional district in GA that the US might tip over and capsize! »

«Fucking mobsters.»

«Fuck all unions the only good union is a union based off of fucking other unions»

«LOL, yeah, 69/hour in CA probably isn't "much", but along the gulf and east coast it is!

Under the current contract, longshoremen earn a top rate of $39 an hour. The I.L.A. has been asking for a $5-an-hour raise for each of the six years of the new contract, which would put them at $69 an hour in the final year of the contract, a 77 percent increase.»

«# affected»

«Fire em all
Send in the national guard»