President Biden says he’ll do nothing
this will have great effects on the economy just in time for the coronation of the new queen
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I already know what’s going to happen. People are going to panic buy. No toilet paper, no red meat. I already bought 6 months supply of both.
I don’t think the Biden administration will enact the Taft-Hartley act, as he doesn’t believe in it. It’s literally the only thing he has said that I agreed with. But it wouldn’t work anyway.
The ILA are looking for a 30 dollar an hour raise over the next 6 years and no automation guarantee. I wish them the best.
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You bought six months worth of toilet paper? How many rolls is that if you don’t mind me asking.
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They actually want a 70% increase putting them on some protracted “equal ground” with their LA counterparts.
Taft-Hartley would put them to work but they’d simply do less than 10% of the work.
Joe Biden and his Buffon Transportation Secretary the hapless Pete Bootyjudge knew of this impending strike more than two months ago. Biden when coherent claimed to be “the biggest pro Union President ever” yet he did nothing. Why?
All this will do is incentivize automation at the ports and employee reductions by attrition. And trying to get California pay scales in a market with a lower cost of living is just pure greed.
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This will also incentivize diverting shipping to Mexican and Canadian ports. I am sure both countries will appreciate the economic activity, as will their trucking and rail carriers. With the Mexico/US/Canada trade agreement and multiple container ports on the St Lawrence Seaway, with plenty of room, and now possible incentive, to expand the facilities, along with numerous Ports on the East Coast of Mexico.
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Yay for Veracruz!! I guess.
Atlas Shrugged and we have front row seats.
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The whole idea of standardized shipping containers is to enable intermodal movement of freight without having to load/unload and reload.
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It is efficient.
The irony in this is amazing.
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Dog eat dog law.
I don’t know what you mean by that.
People on the far right generally push for an Atlas Shrugged type world. Or more specifically, hardcore capitalists push for it and have cooped the right into what is clearly an insane way to run a planet.
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It’s also pretty insane to think that Capitalists going on strike would bring society to its knees.
Oh no… all the rich people disappeared… whatever shall we do? How would we survive without them?
When you have enough money, you can pay to transport what you need for yourself. This strike won’t do more than slightly inconvenience the wealthy elite. It will effect your everyday person, who has to depend on the broad supply chain for goods to be in the store. And as we already know the budget of that everyday shopper is already stretched thin.
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Well… I was referencing the plot of Atlas Shrugged.
And yes a strike won’t affect the rich but that isn’t the point of striking.
The point of it is to get a bigger piece of the pie for labor and that there are those in the general population that are opposed to that is petty wild to me.
A company is more like the goose that lays the eggs, than a pie to be cut up. Kill the goose and there are no more eggs.
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The company exists to make profits.
The owners want to keep as much as they can from the excess labor value that the laborers create.
Labor wants to extract as much as they can for the value of their excess labor value as they can.
That is the fight.
I personally feel that the world is a much better place when the laborers get more.
Both sides are capable of greed and short term vision. I’ve seen bad management kill companies and I have seen greedy national unions kill companies.
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