Experts warn store prices will soar and shelves will be empty as greedy dockworkers strike over 80% pay raise

[Frankenstein]

MSN

US ports from Maine to Texas could shut down Tuesday if a union representing about 45,000 dockworkers carries through with a threatened strike.

A lengthy shutdown of 36 ports - which handle half of America's cargo from ships - could raise cause shortages and price increases at big and small retailers alike as the holiday shopping season approaches.

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Walmart, Home Depot, Ikea and Amazon - who import tens of thousands of containers a year through ports on the east coast - would be worst hit. Empty shelves have not been seen in the US since the post-pandemic supply chain crush in 2021.

The International Longshoremen's Association is demanding a pay rise that works out at about 77 percent over six years. For union members on a typical rate, their wage would go from $81,120 to around $143,520.

Retail expert Neil Saunders of Global Data told DailyMail.om that the strike will cause two main problems - shoppers will face higher prices and empty shelves.

 

[sealybobo]

MSN

US ports from Maine to Texas could shut down Tuesday if a union representing about 45,000 dockworkers carries through with a threatened strike.

A lengthy shutdown of 36 ports - which handle half of America's cargo from ships - could raise cause shortages and price increases at big and small retailers alike as the holiday shopping season approaches.

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Walmart, Home Depot, Ikea and Amazon - who import tens of thousands of containers a year through ports on the east coast - would be worst hit. Empty shelves have not been seen in the US since the post-pandemic supply chain crush in 2021.

The International Longshoremen's Association is demanding a pay rise that works out at about 77 percent over six years. For union members on a typical rate, their wage would go from $81,120 to around $143,520.

Retail expert Neil Saunders of Global Data told DailyMail.om that the strike will cause two main problems - shoppers will face higher prices and empty shelves.

God you sure hope the shit hits the fan huh? October Surprise?

But don't forget how Trump handled his crisis. He ignored covid like it was the dinner check.

 

[Frankenstein]

God you sure hope the shit hits the fan huh? October Surprise?

But don't forget how Trump handled his crisis. He ignored covid like it was the dinner check.

Unlike you, I do not want fellow citizens to suffer, so it can be used as a political tool as covid was by democrats, the very people who released it to harm trump!

 

[sealybobo]

Unlike you, I do not want fellow citizens to suffer, so it can be used as a political tool as covid was by democrats, the very people who released it to harm trump!

No better example of how your side has lost it and you are living in an alternate reality. We released it?

And why didn't you see it when Dick Chaney released anthrax on Democrats and media who were threatening to expose the Bush regime? Remember these guys were fighting the Patriot act? You remember don't you? You're either with us or against us.

• Senators: Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy
  
  
  
• NBC News anchor: Tom Brokaw
  
  
  
• News outlets: The New York Post
  
  
  
• Postal facilities: New York Post offices
  
  
  
• Capitol Police Officers: Exposed to anthrax
  
  
  
• Senator Russ Feingold staffers: Exposed to anthrax

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Every one of them should be fired and replaced with people who want to go to work.

 

[Frankenstein]

No better example of how your side has lost it and you are living in an alternate reality. We released it?

And why didn't you see it when Dick Chaney released anthrax on Democrats and media who were threatening to expose the Bush regime? Remember these guys were fighting the Patriot act? You remember don't you? You're either with us or against us.

• Senators: Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy
  
  
  
• NBC News anchor: Tom Brokaw
  
  
  
• News outlets: The New York Post
  
  
  
• Postal facilities: New York Post offices
  
  
  
• Capitol Police Officers: Exposed to anthrax
  
  
  
• Senator Russ Feingold staffers: Exposed to anthrax

Yes Fauci is responsible for the release he predicted it and made it come true!

 

[sealybobo]

Every one of them should be fired and replaced with people who want to go to work.

What is unemployment in the area?
How much do dock workers make?
Please tell the teamsters what you Republicans want to do to them.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

America is under attack

Democrats are working with the WEF on a plot to intentionally collapse America.

Democrats = traitors

 

[sealybobo]

Yes Fauci is responsible for the release he predicted it and made it come true!

I don't see it. But it is odd that you see the conspiracy theories now but you didn't put two and two when Chaney was mailing anthrax to the media and Democrats who were fighting the patriot act and were going to tell that Bush lied us into Iraq were the only ones that got it.

You think 2020 was stolen but everything Trump tried in 2020, Bush tried and got away with in 2000 to steal Florida.

You were told falsely that Dominion Voting Machines were shady but you ignored Diebold scandal after scandal. A very shady company. Who's owner was the head of the Ohio Re Elect Bush 2004 committee. WTF?

You're a hack. Partisan hack

 

[roderick]

Oh, 80% only. Seems reasonable.

 

[Frankenstein]

I don't see it. But it is odd that you see the conspiracy theories now but you didn't put two and two when Chaney was mailing anthrax to the media and Democrats who were fighting the patriot act and were going to tell that Bush lied us into Iraq were the only ones that got it.

You think 2020 was stolen but everything Trump tried in 2020, Bush tried and got away with in 2000 to steal Florida.

You were told falsely that Dominion Voting Machines were shady but you ignored Diebold scandal after scandal. A very shady company. Who's owner was the head of the Ohio Re Elect Bush 2004 committee. WTF?

You're a hack. Partisan hack

Anthrax did not shut down the entire country, and harm people, especially children, and our economy ! The mainstream media skewed the vote in Florida in 2000, by calling it for Gore before the panhandle voted causing may to leave their polling places in the panhandle and not vote

 

[sealybobo]

America is under attack

Democrats are working with the WEF on a plot to intentionally collapse America.

Democrats = traitors

You guys are all in with the doom and gloom. I guess we kind of own the positive vibe so I guess you always take the opposite approach. We go high you go low.

What sucks is if Trump wins and the unemployment number goes down even .001%, he will claim he's the greatest of all time.

 

[sealybobo]

Oh, 80% only. Seems reasonable.

Have you read Trump's art of the deal? Where would you start? A 1% raise?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

What is unemployment in the area?
How much do dock workers make?
Please tell the teamsters what you Republicans want to do to them.

The union is demanding $69 an hour, base pay. That's just greedy.

 

[citygator]

You guys are funny. Half the imports come from the west coast and most essentials are not imported. This is definitely an inconvenience but blame greedy companies for not working with their labor.

 

[roderick]

Have you read Trump's art of the deal? Where would you start? A 1% raise?

Have you taken 4th grade math?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Have you read Trump's art of the deal? Where would you start? A 1% raise?

If I were management, I would start with an 80% increase in automation.

 

[Frankenstein]

Have you read Trump's art of the deal? Where would you start? A 1% raise?

They weer offered 50%

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

You guys are funny. Half the imports come from the west coast and most essentials are not imported. This is definitely an inconvenience but blame greedy companies for not working with their labor.

The union boss is promising to cripple the country. Should he be able to do that?

 

[citygator]

The union boss is promising to cripple the country. Should he be able to do that?

Yes he should. It’s a worker’s right to work or not work. Not working is leverage over employers and I support. Now, in this case the union boss is a Trump buddy so I suspect his reasons may not be 100% aligned with his workers but, in fact, divided along politics, but I don’t know that for certain. He may be a great leader for his peeps.