Lazy crane operators

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Interesting take on this...what should the Fed Govt to do fix this problem?

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.

www.yahoo.com

The finger-pointing at the busy Los Angeles County ports comes as scores of container ships are anchored off the California coast, waiting in some cases for weeks to unload their freight. The Biden administration has scrambled to get shipping executives, port officials, and labor to tackle the problem. While the reasons for the burgeoning backlog are complex, truck drivers say not everyone seems to be working together.

“In 15 years of doing this job, I’ve never seen them work slower,” said Antonio, who has spent hours waiting at Los Angeles County ports for cargo to be loaded. “The crane operators take their time, like three to four hours to get just one container. You can’t say anything to them, or they will just go [help] someone else.”

Lazy ass dock hands aren't anything knew. That's why I don't fuck around with them.

 

[blackhawk]

For a number of years now the blue collar workers and trades people have been looked down on and marginalized but you have one supply chain shortage and people realize just how important they are.

 

[BULLDOG]

Yahoo news is never right wing. I mean you have to consider how the hell Tori Richards could have interviewed enoug truck drivers to get a story like this It's freaking nuts.

Agreed, the story is nuts.

 

[BULLDOG]

The government tells truck drivers how to act. Since that's the case, it oughta be illegal to detain a driver more than two hours loading, or unloading. If it happens, the driver should be able to report the shipper/receiver and that company be saddled with a significant fine.

Why? The driver is being paid to wait.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Why? The driver is being paid to wait.

No he isn't...lol. OTR drivers don't get paid by the hour. They're paid by the miles, or by the load. If the wheels ain't turnin, they ain't earnin.

 

[Muhammed]

The truckers are just in a hurry..

Because they tended to be middle class productive folks, the Obama administration viciously attacked truck drivers in their wallets.

 

[BULLDOG]

No he isn't...lol. OTR drivers don't get paid by the hour. They're paid by the miles, or by the load. If the wheels ain't turnin, they ain't earnin.

That is the difference between contractors and employees. California ports are covered under AB5 mentioned above.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

That is the difference between contractors and employees. California ports are covered under AB5 mentioned above.

And California is fucked, too. That's why I don't fuck around over there.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

The takeaway from your OP is to blame union and crane operators for the problem.

Sorry you took it that way, really the purpose was to mock the 2300 threads wondering why Biden has not yet fixed the supply chain problem. As if the Fed Govt could do that

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

The truckers are just in a hurry..

You can than electronic logs and long wait times on that.

 

[BULLDOG]

And California is fucked, too. That's why I don't fuck around over there.

California is a big state. They don't need me to defend them from a crazy right winger on the internet.

 

[whitehall]

Lazy ass dock hands aren't anything knew. That's why I don't fuck around with them.

Lazy assed (union) dock hands and lazy assed crane operators? It didn't take long for democrat run unions to eat their own to preserve a regime run by a mentally impaired idiot who doesn't give a damn about them.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

California is a big state. They don't need me to defend them from a crazy right winger on the internet.

You can't defend their communist policies...lol

 

[Crepitus]

Interesting take on this...what should the Fed Govt to do fix this problem?

Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.

www.yahoo.com

The finger-pointing at the busy Los Angeles County ports comes as scores of container ships are anchored off the California coast, waiting in some cases for weeks to unload their freight. The Biden administration has scrambled to get shipping executives, port officials, and labor to tackle the problem. While the reasons for the burgeoning backlog are complex, truck drivers say not everyone seems to be working together.

“In 15 years of doing this job, I’ve never seen them work slower,” said Antonio, who has spent hours waiting at Los Angeles County ports for cargo to be loaded. “The crane operators take their time, like three to four hours to get just one container. You can’t say anything to them, or they will just go [help] someone else.”

Remember Reagan and the air traffic controlers?

 

[Moonglow]

Lazy assed (union) dock hands and lazy assed crane operators? It didn't take long for democrat run unions to eat their own to preserve a regime run by a mentally impaired idiot who doesn't give a damn about them.

The unions voted for Trump my dear...

Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump​

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

www.politico.com

 

[Moonglow]

You can't defend their communist policies...lol

Which communistic policies are those?

 

[whitehall]

The unions voted for Trump my dear...

Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump​

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump

In some unions, especially the building trades, support for the president remains solid despite the efforts of labor leaders to convince members otherwise.

www.politico.com

I'm not your dear and unions were run and supported by democrats.

 

[Grumblenuts]

Let me get this straight, a yahoo unknown named Tori Richards claims that truckers blame crane operators for the container crisis and we are supposed to believe this left wing crap? It beats blaming silent Joe anyway.

Um, no. Yahoo hosted a story created by the Washington Examiner. Perhaps they could have made that more obvious by sticking the logo right upfront.. Oh, wait.. They did.

Yahoo news is never right wing. I mean you have to consider how the hell Tori Richards could have interviewed enoug truck drivers to get a story like this It's freaking nuts.

Doubling down on the stupid is just how you roll, ain't it bro!

Tori Richards - Washington Examiner

www.washingtonexaminer.com

The Washington Examiner spoke to six truck drivers

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Sorry you took it that way, really the purpose was to mock the 2300 threads wondering why Biden has not yet fixed the supply chain problem. As if the Fed Govt could do that

One thing Biden and his Dimocrat cronies could have done, was not create the massive Covid 'stay-at-home-' money that has kept so many people away from work for much too long!

 

[initforme]

Want them to work faster? Pay them more. Production is tied to pay. See how that works?