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I’m not so sure about this. This is why I said I’m hearing rumblings. But it would definitely be a good thing if true.

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I agree. If Trump comes out and starts blaming the dock workers, that would be the worst thing he can do. But I’m pretty sure he’s in support.

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I don’t think I have heard.

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I hope you’re right. Went to Costco today, usually the Paper products are stacked to the ceiling. Today, gone. The ■■■■■■■ panic buyers cleaned it out. See what that bad old Frankenbug Covid did? Trained the lemmings to react without doing some thinking. Why? ■■■■■■■ TP IS MADE IN THE US (well a good majority of it is). Kirkland brand TP< Paper towels etc are. AND THEY ARE TRANSPORTED BY RAIL AND TRUCK! Dumbasses.

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It may not matter. The reports are they agreed to a 62% raise. That they are going back to work on Friday, extending the current contract until January 15th while they negotiate the rest of the contract.

I’ve mentioned this before. Probably one of my initial posts in this thread. I didn’t think they were that far apart.

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Next up Harris and Walzie will say they are in solidarity with the ILWA because they were longshoremen middle class and proud of their lawns.

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Had the strike gone on longer, how many times do you think these idiots would have cleaned out the stores before they realized they didn’t have to?

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Well back to work tomorrow.

Well done everyone!

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We’re in S Florida. We had a house we bought in 2010, had a home in MD we owned for 35 years. During Covid we came here and rode it out, had two grandkids in our care and enrolled them in FL schools. During the transition and final sale in 2021 of the MD property I saw that panic buying ■■■■ up in MD. People by nature are hoarders IMO. ■■■■■■■ stupid. Spend six weeks in the field and you’ll get a real appreciation of Charmin or anything to wipe your ass. And I don’t mean those nifty "one wipers’ that come in MREs either. :rofl:

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I’m busy. What was the deal maker?

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The 45,000 dock workers will profit, but the rest of us aren’t dock workers. A few locals in the immediate area of the ports will see some potential that the dock workers will spend some of that additional pay in their businesses, but the vast majority of the population will only pay more for the handling of the freight on it’s way to their local store.

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I wish I could go on strike for 62%. If we did that, I think we’d settle somewhere around 0%.

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True, but I honestly think the amount that dockworkers get paid is a tiny portion (probably less than 0.1%) of the retail price of stuff.

I for one have no objection to unions doing strictly union stuff.

Where I resent unions is when they become a donor and propaganda wing of the left and/or when they make crazy demands like the steelworkers of the 1970s, NYC constrution workers of the same period etc… (Added: But I don’t think that was the case here.)

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They can learn to code.

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Dictating what technology your employer can make use of in their business is a pretty crazy demand. That decision is an ownership/management decision. It’s fine to seek agreements that any downsizing because of new tech will be by attrition, or buy out, but labor does not dictate company structure, or technology. I’d close the company and sell off the land and equipment, permanently shutting the doors before I would let labor, especially a cheap suit wearing union boss, dictate business decisions.

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My point is that the generic middle class won’t overall be better off because some individual set of workers gets a raise.

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Now apply that standard to the C-suite executives who have seen their compensation go up considerably because the ports profits have increased many times over.

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You do know that crass envy is a very unbecoming trait. And making class warfare arguments is not the way to impress.

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Sorry, righties.

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You really need to grow up, everything in the world isn’t about partisan politics.

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