UPDATE: THE DOCKWORKERS WON
Per AP, More Perfect, Labor Notes:
Shippers agreed to a 61.5% wage increase over 6 years, details still being negotiated, but current contract will be extended to January 15th while they working it out.
Some reports there's also an agreement on automation.
Per AP, More Perfect, Labor Notes:
Shippers agreed to a 61.5% wage increase over 6 years, details still being negotiated, but current contract will be extended to January 15th while they working it out.
Some reports there's also an agreement on automation.
Reposted from
Joe Katz
Kamala Harris out with a statement also backing striking dockworkers and tying their demands to record industry profits.
She goes on to hit Trump for putting unionbusters on the NLRB and backing strike-breaking, and reaffirms her commitment to the PRO Act.
She goes on to hit Trump for putting unionbusters on the NLRB and backing strike-breaking, and reaffirms her commitment to the PRO Act.
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When costs increase companies must increase prices or efficiencies.
They also grow Amazon Prime boxes.
The herd panics very easily.
The ILA, like pretty much all unions, has a No Strike clause which prohibits strikes during a closed contract.
The ILA contract expired effective October 1. First day they could strike was Tuesday.
Unionized longshore workers seeking contract
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NPR's interviewee from non-unionized, incredibly exploited trucking industry wanting automation 'cause [per them] it decreases wait time
Guts unions?
NPR: Meh
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https://labor.ucla.edu/publications/automation-future-dockwork-san-pedro-bay-port-complex/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03611981231174422
B/H publicly supported the longshoremen and their union. Big win for their labor creds.
ALSO, the strike didn’t go on long enough that American consumers felt any retail pain. Had that happened they would have been in a tough place politically.
Really happy at the way this was resolved for the dockworkers and very happy in the way this also good for Biden/Harris result will hit the public via the news cycle
I love to see it.
Proof that Kamala is a much better option than Trump.
No matter how horrible Kamala is, she is WAY BETTER than Trump.
Trump and Republicans are that fucking horribly evil. Including the ones endorsing Kamala, who are identical to Trump in evilness.
Biden's MO is very much to not talk about what he's doing until it's done, and that extends to his administration. The fact that you don't know what she's doing does not in any way mean she isn't doing anything.
We don't know their good deeds because they avoid promoting them.
But it's October, and they also get shit done.
Claim it as intentional. Take the win.
My businesses, both the one I owned and the one I work for, would close if labor costs increased 50%. Heck 10% ONCE would be disastrous.
Is there a supply side shortage?
The inflation during Covid was supply side driven.
Not in our lifetimes so we find it a strange idea but it could be argued we're seeing it right now in manufactured goods while food & services are inflating!
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040715/were-there-any-periods-major-deflation-us-history.asp
*notices pay disparity with the west coast*
For a different reason, holy-