New YorkCNN —
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/business/us-port-workers-strike-tuesday/index.html
Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are
on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, according to the union, choking off the flow of many of the nation’s imports and exports in what could become America’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades.
The strike, which was also confirmed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as well as the Port of Virginia, began at midnight. There appears to be a wide gap between the union’s demands and the offer of the United States Maritime Alliance, which uses the acronym USMX. The maritime alliance represents the major shipping lines, all of which are foreign owned; as well as terminal operators and port authorities.
crossbody said: Just as Jehu remained in power for 28 years, Trump likewise must be in power for 28 years. Trump was in power running the Trump Enterprise for 20 years and president for 4 years. He is still due 4 more years in power as president. That is why the democrats throwing everything at him including the kitchen sink cannot stop him- they cannot stop God.
NotfooledbyW said: I’m for American Longshoreman and every working class American who deserves better than what Republican billionaires like Trump has given them.
New YorkCNN —
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/business/us-port-workers-strike-tuesday/index.html
The union says it has continued to talk with the USMX, just not in face-to-face negotiations. Ahead of the strike, it said management knows what it is demanding in order to get a deal done and that any strike would be management’s fault, not the union’s. It said its demands are reasonable given the level of profits in the shipping industry.
Daggett, wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the words “The Docks are Ours,” addressed the strikers outside of the Port of New York and New Jersey, in a video posted to an ILA Facebook page.
“I want to tell you all what you’re doing is right. This is going down in history, what we’re doing here,” he said. He recalled the union’s last strike when he and other union members were on strike for three months to earn an extra 80 cents an hour.
“Now they’re making billions and billions of dollars, through the pandemic, when all of us were working. Who’s the greedy ones here?” he said. “We’re’ going to get show them…because nothing’s going to move without us.”
NotfooledbyW said: If God and Don Trump are for the USMX. maritime alliance that represents the major shipping lines, all of which are foreign owned; Well then fuck God and Don Trump if they are favoring foreign price gouging billionaires over American workers.
