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

«Here, ports hire their dock workers daily so no strike will be effective in doing anything but assuring you don't get hired again.»

«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.»

«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»