Longshoreman's Union VP Has a Message About Trump That Will Likely Sicken Dems

[Dragonlady]

President-elect Donald J. Trump further solidified his position as a defender of the working class this week. Mr. Trump met with leaders of the Longshoreman’s Association, and it was an experience that the top officials of this labor union couldn’t have imagined. Its vice president, Dennis Daggett, posted on Facebook that the meeting was nothing short of historic in his mind.

Statement from Int'l Longshoremen's Association EVP Dennis Daggett on his meeting with President Trump: "In over 25 years of working in Washington, I have never seen a Republican take up the mantle for working-class people. President-elect Trump proved me wrong yesterday."

Dennis Daggett, the executive vice president of the International Longshoreman’s Association — the union that shut down ports with a strike earlier this year — said his recent meeting with Trump was “an experience I never imagined in my wildest dreams.”

[…]

Following that meeting, Trump took on one of their top grievances — automation.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the meeting.

“The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets.”

Longshoreman's Union VP Has a Message About Trump That Will Likely Sicken Dems

townhall.com

BJ -

Everyone that has actually paid attention knew that this is who President Trump45/47 is.
The loons know too.
They just hate it and constantly attempt (and fail) to discredit it.

That’s the dumbest thing that Donald Trump could’ve possibly said, but of course you think he’s a genius.

 

[Dragonlady]

Automation is the least of their problems. It's POS Democrat's anti jobs, anti business policies and the wholesale sell out of our jobs and industries to foreign countries to line their own greedy pockets that's the big problem.

Pssst. This is what Republicans did not Democrats.

All of the free trade deals came from Republicans. Democrats fight them tooth and claw, but you voted for Republicans.

 

[Winco]

Because President Trump is spectacular.

Spectacular at WHAT?

1). Brazen Promises he Can't Keep...... Agree....he is spectacular. 10/10
2). Talking out his ASS to an audience just to PLEASE that particular Audience... 10/10

 

[initforme]

Automation is the least of their problems. It's POS Democrat's anti jobs, anti business policies and the wholesale sell out of our jobs and industries to foreign countries to line their own greedy pockets that's the big problem.

And corporate heads complained that american labor wages are too high.

 

[Mac1958]

I guess ya never know.

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[BluesLegend]

Pssst. This is what Republicans did not Democrats.

All of the free trade deals came from Republicans. Democrats fight them tooth and claw, but you voted for Republicans.

You lie!

 

[initforme]

The Uber wealthy corporate heads don't want americans making stuff here because they'd have to pay for the labor and they're too cheap to do so.

 

[jc456]

Dem assholes have been taking a giant shit on the working man and unions for years. They were just waiting for someone like Trump to come along so they could tell Dems to go F themselves.

they worked with China since Henry Kissinger influenced the elites about cheaper labor back in the 70's

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[TheProgressivePatriot]

No one cares

Working people care , fool Trump doers not . They will have regrets as will many others .

 

[Billiejeens]

Working people care , fool Trump doers not . They will have regrets as will many others .

No one cares what stupid shit you think.

 

[JoeB131]

Biden has shown we don't really need a president to run the country.

Let's start there.

Biden half asleep in his last year got more accomplished than Commie Bernie in 30 years in Congress.

 

[JoeB131]

hahaha yeah that's it....union members are just racist.

you go with that message

Most of them are.

I'd include relatives and neighbors in that category.

Then they wonder why their good unions jobs go away.

 

[Couchpotato]

Unions are continuing to decline because their rank and file put their racism above their economic interests.

And frankly, they kind of deserve it.

Yeah that's what's happening here. It's not that this job is being made obsolete by technological advances and they are just holding on as long as possible to milk as much money out of that system as possible. Nor is it that as a society we have progressed enough that their necessity is waning and the fact that the unions have always been a bit of a racket to begin with. It's just

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Promise

If you support unions why is that support contingent on them supporting your preferred Presidential candidate? Also the longshoremen as a union could have all voted for Harris for all you know. That doesn't mean they cant or shouldn't listen to the person who won.

If you are so useless that your job can be done by a machine, that's on you, isn't it?

Is it? Until rather recently their job couldnt be done by a machine. Our technological advancement in automation has moved a lightning speed. Inside these guys working lifetime ports likely went from zero automation to almost completely automated. The first automation in a port was in 93 a guy who went to work at a port who graduated in that year would be just turning 50....

 

[Zincwarrior]

I may be out of step with trump on this

Automation means greater efficiency

More production with fewer workers

That has been the story since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution

Its ok. Trump doesn't give a shit about them.

 

[struth]

Most of them are.

I'd include relatives and neighbors in that category.

Then they wonder why their good unions jobs go away.

I think most dems are racistx hence why your projection

 

[Mac-7]

Its ok. Trump doesn't give a shit about them.

I think you are wrong about that

So far all we have to go on are rumors

And besides, you are going to disagree with trump on EVERYTHING

I only disagree once in a while

 

[JoeB131]

Yeah that's what's happening here. It's not that this job is being made obsolete by technological advances and they are just holding on as long as possible to milk as much money out of that system as possible. Nor is it that as a society we have progressed enough that their necessity is waning and the fact that the unions have always been a bit of a racket to begin with. It's just

If you support unions why is that support contingent on them supporting your preferred Presidential candidate? Also the longshoremen as a union could have all voted for Harris for all you know. That doesn't mean they cant or shouldn't listen to the person who won.

I support unions. My dad was a union guy, but he voted pretty consistently Republican back in the 60's and 70s. (he was dead by the 80s.)

The problem is the polling shows that while union leadership usually supports the Dems, the rank and file of most private sector unions votes Republican, and then they wonder why all these union jobs keep disappearing.

I think in some ways, unions are obsolete. They never really evolved to meet the modern market. "We're going on strike" doesn't help against, "We're moving the factory to China." It's why the only two places where Unions are still a thing are the trades and government employees.

Is it? Until rather recently their job couldnt be done by a machine. Our technological advancement in automation has moved a lightning speed. Inside these guys working lifetime ports likely went from zero automation to almost completely automated. The first automation in a port was in 93 a guy who went to work at a port who graduated in that year would be just turning 50....

Maybe. I think the problem here is that we need to realize that automation is coming and we need to retrain people to do the automated jobs. We also need to make sure those service and support jobs pay as much as the manufacturing jobs that are vanishing.

There's plenty of wealth to go around, it's just a matter of how it is distributed.

But as long as stupid white people keep voting their racial, religious, and sexual fears and put people like Trump who screw them in power, that's going to keep going in the wrong direction.

 

[JoeB131]

I think most dems are racistx hence why your projection

Well, no one could really accuse you of thinking.

Repeating what you heard on hate radio and misspelling it here isn't thinking.

 

[struth]

Well, no one could really accuse you of thinking.

Repeating what you heard on hate radio and misspelling it here isn't thinking.

further projection won't change anything.

 

[alang1216]

President-elect Donald J. Trump further solidified his position as a defender of the working class this week. Mr. Trump met with leaders of the Longshoreman’s Association, and it was an experience that the top officials of this labor union couldn’t have imagined. Its vice president, Dennis Daggett, posted on Facebook that the meeting was nothing short of historic in his mind.

Statement from Int'l Longshoremen's Association EVP Dennis Daggett on his meeting with President Trump: "In over 25 years of working in Washington, I have never seen a Republican take up the mantle for working-class people. President-elect Trump proved me wrong yesterday."

Dennis Daggett, the executive vice president of the International Longshoreman’s Association — the union that shut down ports with a strike earlier this year — said his recent meeting with Trump was “an experience I never imagined in my wildest dreams.”

[…]

Following that meeting, Trump took on one of their top grievances — automation.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after the meeting.

“The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets.”

Longshoreman's Union VP Has a Message About Trump That Will Likely Sicken Dems

townhall.com

BJ -

Everyone that has actually paid attention knew that this is who President Trump45/47 is.
The loons know too.
They just hate it and constantly attempt (and fail) to discredit it.

So Trump promised them exactly what they wanted to hear? Imagine that!

Get back to us in 4 years and we'll see if labor is singing the same song.