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Harris backs striking dockworkers, Trump blames labor stoppage on the Biden administration (www.salon.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fuck yeah! UNION STRONG!

Looking up the pay rates of these dock workers and they get paid less than I do as a Teamster.

All the bullshit I overhear says they are all millionaires lmao. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Pay for longshoremen is based on their years of experience. Under the ILA's former contract with USMX, which expired on Monday, starting pay for dockworkers was $20 per hour. That rose to $24.75 per hour after two years on the job and to $31.90 after three years, topping out at $39 for workers with at least six years of service.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-do-dock-workers-make-longshoreman-salary/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is really interesting. I had always been told Longshoreman make $50 an hour average...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Maybe that's with overtime or something. ILA top out at $39/hour.

The contract they want would be $69/hour after three years. That's about $144,000/year.

I clearly should not have gone to college.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or you should unionize and get what you are rightly due.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

No, I think it's better if most white-collar jobs make less than blue-collar jobs. Someone needs to line the pockets of the c-suite. That will make less people go to college and less people aspire to bullshit jobs that don't do anything. Like the world needs another app developer, full stack developer, or middle manager. I think we're all set with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That's definitely going to be the overall average once you include about 4 hours of overtime

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, that’s something. I resent having to vote for her to prevent him. But I’ll take what I can get. Support unions!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Really interesting to see all the experts on TV. Just look them up.. usually billionaire business owners. Very concerned with the impact on the small business and the average Americans... Uh-huh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Listen man, I'm all for news about candidates backing things but can we please start putting in * comments indicating whether or not they actually followed through with any actual progress or at least describing the situation at hand.

We just went through a years worth of Biden pretending to care about Gaza, and 2 months of Harris also pretending to care about Gaza. And there are still people on here that are convinced the uncommitted movement is going to vote for her, or that she is actually going to change her policy, which is dangerous because its exactly the same situation that caused Hillary to lose in 2016.

People are out here mast posting about Harris backing decriminalization of weed, yet everyone older than 30 pointed out that democrats have been promising to properly achieve that for 2 decades now, and that Harris refuses to mention her antics as state prosecutor.

I don't want to discount the positive here, especially because Trump would probably make a union assassination board lol, but we need to remember what actually transpires vs what a candidate claims.

spoilerIt only took 5 seconds for people to mention how Biden struck down the railroad union and their strike, and he stated that he doesn't want to negotiate with collective bargaining. Harris is his VP, and therefore she extends his policy. This could easily backfire, and we could just have a repeat situation where nothing happens for several weeks, and then all of a sudden a random backroom deal materializes out of nowhere, and nothing actually gets accomplished aside from PR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh yay. She’s not snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, that’s better than I expect from democrats

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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