US US port strike by 45,000 dockworkers is all but certain to begin at midnight - A Rather Unique October Surprise

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FILE - Shipping containers are stacked in the Port of New York and New Jersey in Elizabeth, N.J., May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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FILE - In this photo provided by the Georgia Ports Authority, Griff Lynch, President and CEO of the Georgia Ports Authority, provides an update on the Port of Savannah’s progress and future trajectory to 1,200 leaders from the maritime, supply chain, business and political sectors Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, during the annual State of the Port event in Savannah, Ga. (Stephen B. Morton/Georgia Ports Authority via AP, File)

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FILE - Containers are moved at the Port of New York and New Jersey in Elizabeth, N.J., on June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Updated 12:13 PM GMT-5, September 30, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing U.S. dockworkers signaled that 45,000 members will walk off the job at midnight, kicking off a massive strike likely to shut down ports across the East and Gulf coasts.
The coming work stoppage threatens to significantly snarl the nation’s supply chain, potentially leading to higher prices and delays for households and businesses if it drags on for weeks. That’s because the strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association could cause 36 ports — which handle roughly half of the goods shipped into and out of the U.S. — to shutter operations.
ILA confirmed over the weekend that its members would hit the picket lines at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. In a Monday update, the union continued to blame the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports, for continuing to “to block the path” towards an agreement before the contract deadline.

“The Ocean Carriers represented by USMX want to enjoy rich billion-dollar profits that they are making in 2024, while they offer ILA Longshore Workers an unacceptable wage package that we reject,” ILA said in a prepared statement. “ILA longshore workers deserve to be compensated for the important work they do keeping American commerce moving and growing.”

ILA also accused the shippers of “killing their customers” with sizeable price increases for full containers over recent weeks. The union said that this will result increased costs for American consumers.

The Associated Press reached out to a USMX spokesperson for comment.
If drawn out, the strike would led would force businesses to pay shippers for delays and cause some goods to arrive late for peak holiday shopping season — potentially impacting delivery of anything from toys or artificial Christmas trees, to cars, coffee and vegetables. Americans could also face higher prices as retailers feel the supply squeeze.

ILA members are demanding higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container-moving trucks used in the loading or unloading of freight.
The coming strike by the ILA workers will be the first by the union since 1977.
If a strike were deemed a danger to U.S. economic health, President Joe Biden could, under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, seek a court order for an 80-day cooling-off period. This would suspend the strike.
All eyes are on what, if any, action the adminstration might take — particularly just weeks ahead of a tight presidential election. But Biden has signaled that he will not exercise this power.
During an exchange with reporters on Sunday, Biden said “no” when asked if he planned to intervene in the potential work stoppage.

“Because it’s collective bargaining, I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley,” Biden said referring to a 1947 law that allows the president to intervene in labor disputes that threaten the nation’s health or safety.

 

[Dagobert]

Im mad that they are shutting down PORTS YOU RETARD. PORTS. PORTS. They want to shut down half the nations ports for a couple bucks. Our supply chain is still crippled from covid, now they want to shut the ports down? No fuck you niggers, go to work and do your fucking jobs.

Listen, I know it's hard to accept, but people don't have to work for wages they don't like. Just because you work for comparable wages to the box stacking retards with no skills (i.e. me) doesn't mean everyone does. "Ports need to be open" doesn't justify stripping people of their right to choose to work. Hell, if it's so important to you, why don't you go and scab for them?

Also, how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning? I don't really believe you can answer hypotheticals; if you're too stupid to fetch more than 80k/year as a welder, you probably are a sub-nigger level of intelligent.

Do you think 80k/yr is "a lot of money" in 2024? Yes or no?

Apparently it's more than he makes as a welder, so probably yeah.

 

[WelperHelper99]

That is why I posted
Newark, NJ, (total shithole but still 400-500k homes)
Boston, MA,
Queens NY.
This is where the a lot of people working at these big ports have to live. So these areas are relevant.

I'll just ask you a direct question here.
Do you think 80k/yr is "a lot of money" in 2024? Yes or no?

Making 80K even in 2024 is not enough justification to shut down half the nations ports.

Listen, I know it's hard to accept, but people don't have to work for wages they don't like. Just because you work for comparable wages to the box stacking retards with no skills (i.e. me) doesn't mean everyone does. "Ports need to be open" doesn't justify stripping people of their right to choose to work. Hell, if it's so important to you, why don't you go and scab for them?

You realize if they don't like their job they could just quit. Oh wait they do like it and this is just posturing, posturing that is damaging the country as a whole.

You are so fucking dumb. You are fucking niggercattle.

 

[Dagobert]

You are so fucking dumb. You are fucking niggercattle.

>Calling someone else niggercattle when your first response to a strike is "NO THIS IS GOING TO DISRUPT MY ABILITY TO CONSOOOOOOM!"

You realize if they don't like their job they could just quit. Oh wait they do like it and this is just posturing, posturing that is damaging the country as a whole

Apparently they don't like it, hence the fucking strike. Again, being extremely assmad isn't a reason to demand everyone take corporate dick and work for nigger wages like you do.

Again, how would you feel if you did not eat breakfast this morning?

 

[WelperHelper99]

>Calling someone else niggercattle when your first response to a strike is "NO THIS IS GOING TO DISRUPT MY ABILITY TO CONSOOOOOOM!"


Apparently they don't like it, hence the fucking strike. Again, being extremely assmad isn't a reason to demand everyone take corporate dick and work for nigger wages like you do.

Uh huh. Yeah. Pure retardation. You will look back at this thread a month after the ports close, things become scarce, prices skyrocket, and you will say, damn, @WelperHelper99 was right about those union niggers, they did doom us all. I'm right, you are wrong.

Again, how would you feel if you did not eat breakfast this morning?

Guess i'd be hungry but id suck it up because i aint a whiney bitch.

 

[Jump]

A week at the most before he (or the people who really run things) use the law.

This is why its the perfect time to strike. Let the democrat president bust a UNION strike weeks before the election thats already razor thin.
My bet is The Big Guy (well his handlers) makes a call the the companies and the unions get most of what they want.

Making 80K even in 2024 is not enough justification to shut down half the nations ports.

So they should just live in their cars?
If MUH PORTS are so important that they must be kept open at all costs have you thought about shipping up to Boston and being a scab?

Just because your willing to toil away in poverty doesn't make you some hero. You come off as kinda a sucker. If these workers have some leverage over the (((merchants))) who make billions a month off these ports then they should pull that lever as hard as they can. I hope they get their base bumped up to $150k. Fuck it, make it 175k
The FED will just print some more money to make it all A-OK.

INFLATION TO THE MOON.

WE ZIMBABWE NOW.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Making 80K even in 2024 is not enough justification to shut down half the nations ports.

You're talking about the same unions who shut down the ports in the middle of World War II and got away with it because they always vote blue.

 

[WelperHelper99]

So they should just sleep in their cars?
If MUH PORTS are so important that they must be kept open at all costs have you thought about shipping up to Boston and being a scab?

Just because your willing to toil away in poverty doesn't make you some hero. You come off as kinda a sucker. If these workers have some leverage over the (((merchants))) who make billions a month off these ports then they should pull that lever as hard as they can. I hope they get their base bumped up to $150k. Fuck it, make it 175k
The FED will just print some more money to make it all A-OK.

Nigger for this little tantrum, even if they do win, a jar of fucking peanut butter will be 10 fucking bucks because of how backed up the supply chain will be and how much rotten food will sit on the docks. Some victory.

 

[Dagobert]

Uh huh. Yeah. Pure retardation. You will look back at this thread a month after the ports close, things become scarce, prices skyrocket, and you will say, damn, @WelperHelper99 was right about those union niggers, they did doom us all. I'm right, you are wrong.

Oh no, whatever will I do without the ability to purchase funko pops and cheap overseas garbage! However will I cope?

If closing the ports for a month or two dooms us all, then we fucking deserve it. And the heads that should roll are the retarded mongs who fucked things up so much that the country couldn't cope through a single strike.

Guess i'd be hungry but id suck it up because i aint a whiney bitch.

So you can answer hypotheticals? Wow, truly impressive brainpower. You ever consider using that to think of a way to stop making nigger wages?

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Nigger for this little tantrum, even if they do win, a jar of fucking peanut butter will be 10 fucking bucks because of how backed up the supply chain will be and how much rotten food will sit on the docks. Some victory.

You really are retarded. Imagine being this mad that your goyslop is going to be a few cents more expensive. America imports only a small fraction of its food and actually exports more. If anything, the cost of most food should go down, not up as internal supply grows while it cant be exported. Besides, around half our ports are still open so anything vital can still get in.

You are literally coming in with all the retarded takes. Just like a good commie, seething about how others dare to make good wages while you, the substandard worker, makes the lower wage he deserves.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Oh no, whatever will I do without the ability to purchase funko pops and cheap overseas garbage! However will I cope?

If closing the ports for a month or two dooms us all, then we fucking deserve it. And the heads that should roll are the retarded mongs who fucked things up so much that the country couldn't cope through a single strike.



So you can answer hypotheticals? Wow, truly impressive brainpower. You ever consider using that to think of a way to stop making nigger wages?


You really are retarded. Imagine being this mad that your goyslop is going to be a few cents more expensive. America imports only a small fraction of its food and actually exports more. If anything, the cost of most food should go down, not up as internal supply grows while it cant be exported. Besides, around half our ports are still open so anything vital can still get in.

You are literally coming in with all the retarded takes. Just like a good commie, seething about how others dare to make good wages while you, the substandard worker, makes the lower wage he deserves.

You are beyond retarded if you think only funkos and avocados come through those ports. Actually smoothbrain. Our economy is in the gutter and they are about to put a cannonball through it. Retard.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

>Calling someone else niggercattle when your first response to a strike is "NO THIS IS GOING TO DISRUPT MY ABILITY TO CONSOOOOOOM!"

Fucking with critical infrastructure and the supply chains of many goods is not "NO THIS IS GOING TO DISRUPT MY ABILITY TO CONSOOOOOOM!". Do you even understand what will happen if the trucks don't come for TWO FUCKING DAYS? Do you know what will happen after a work week, 10 days? 20? I tell you, after that time you WISH you had corn syrup to slurp.

 

[Dagobert]

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You are beyond retarded if you think only funkos and avocados come through those ports. Actually smoothbrain. Our economy is in the gutter and they are about to put a cannonball through it. Retard.

Apparently it can't be so vital that it can't be sacrificed to improve shareholder profits. You reveal your true reasons for being mad by only bring upset at the workers.

Fucking with critical infrastructure and the supply chains of many goods is not "NO THIS IS GOING TO DISRUPT MY ABILITY TO CONSOOOOOOM!". Do you even understand what will happen if the trucks don't come for TWO FUCKING DAYS? Do you know what will happen after a work week, 10 days? 20? I tell you, after that time you WISH you had corn syrup to slurp.

And if the trucks stopped, I'd be a little more concerned. But these aren't trucks, nor is it literally every import everywhere. America actually exports more food than imports, as well as most necessities of life in the short term. The biggest danger is to shareholder profits, not you or I.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

But these aren't trucks, nor is it literally every import everywhere. America actually exports more food than imports, as well as most necessities of life in the short term.

Listen mate, this is not necessarily what kind of goods the ports are processing. It is the containers. The last time things came really close because we nearly, very nearly run out of shipping containers. Rates for these went from $1,500 to nearly $50k a pop. This shit affects everything, the longer the cycle time, the more expensive literally everything will be and you WILL suffer through supply chain problems. A strike that affects a dozen important ports on the east coast that have a significant share in the overall volume will clog up the remaining ports not affected. Containers remain on ships for longer, that will increase cycle time, that will increase cost, that even will trigger contractual penalties, all shit normies don't think about.

And while yes, the US is a net food exporter, what do you think will happen if you CAN'T get the food to where it is needed because a whole lot of the containers you gonna need are stuck? Really, most people don't think about it, but they should and prepare accordingly. The logistics chain in the globalised economy are so complicated that it doesn't need much for it to go batshit insane. Some minor fuck up, like a ship getting stuck in the Suez, can undo entire companies that depend on those shipping lanes. Containers getting stuck on ships for 6 months in the millions because of arcane quaratine rules can undo entire economic links dependent on import/export-related things.

t. don't tell me, I know things, I've seen things, they're not great

 

[WelperHelper99]

Apparently it can't be so vital that it can't be sacrificed to improve shareholder profits. You reveal your true reasons for being mad by only bring upset at the workers.


And if the trucks stopped, I'd be a little more concerned. But these aren't trucks, nor is it literally every import everywhere. America actually exports more food than imports, as well as most necessities of life in the short term. The biggest danger is to shareholder profits, not you or I.

You talk profit when I'm talking the lives of over 300 million people. You are a union communist. Once the supply chain stops restarting it will be tremendously difficult. But you know that and don't care. You just care about money, it's always about fucking money. This is why I hate unions. I bet you're one of the strikers. Hope the guard shows up.

 

[Vida]

Perfect timing. I got two Kickstarter board games that are on the boats heading over as I post this.

Freedom Five?

 

[The best and greatest]

Making 80K even in 2024 is not enough justification to shut down half the nations ports.

Then I guess the shipping companies should capitulate. Funny how they hold no accountability in your calculations.

 

[likeacrackado]

I've known a few Longshoremen, some of them were borderline illiterate niggers. Dropped out of school and started lining up for jobs, so they have first pick of the easiest, highest paying ones as adults. Pretty normal labor union shit. I heard they merged or acquired some other unions, wonder if that has anything to do with the timing of negotiations.

 

[Curzon Dax-sama]

Funny how they hold no accountability in your calculations.

Their customers can hold shipping companies accountable. You really think they're some omnipotent entities that do what ever the fuck they like? Why do you think truckers are under a whole lot of pressure? Because it's so much fun? No. It's because large customers are assholes that demand delivery on sometimes impossible to match time tables. "If you can't do it, we find some poojeet shipping lane THAT WILL" (in my case: romanians. Albanians. Ukranians. Generally slavs that don't give a fuck about regulations or safety standards). Accountability. Fuck that.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Their customers can hold shipping companies accountable. You really think they're some omnipotent entities that do what ever the fuck they like? Why do you think truckers are under a whole lot of pressure? Because it's so much fun? No. It's because large customers are assholes that demand delivery on sometimes impossible to match time tables. "If you can't do it, we find some poojeet shipping lane THAT WILL" (in my case: romanians. Albanians. Ukranians. Generally slavs that don't give a fuck about regulations or safety standards). Accountability. Fuck that.

This. If the docks and unions want to stay in buisness the shipping companies need to be happy. The spice must flow. Or else I guess they'll go to another port that isn't lame and gay. And then everything they striked for was for nothing, they lost their customers and are broke.

 

[Kheapathic]

Containers remain on ships for longer, that will increase cycle time, that will increase cost, that even will trigger contractual penalties, all shit normies don't think about.

Their customers can hold shipping companies accountable. You really think they're some omnipotent entities that do what ever the fuck they like? Why do you think truckers are under a whole lot of pressure? Because it's so much fun? No. It's because large customers are assholes that demand delivery on sometimes impossible to match time tables. "If you can't do it, we find some poojeet shipping lane THAT WILL" (in my case: romanians. Albanians. Ukranians. Generally slavs that don't give a fuck about regulations or safety standards). Accountability. Fuck that.

One of the things the railroad unions gave away during negotiations was what they'd call a "run around." Since trains have a schedule, but not a schedule schedule (for lack of a better term), if a train leaves before another, but that later train somehow makes its way to its next depot before the first one; the crew on the first train puts in a ticket for a run around which was something like $25. It doesn't sound like much, but there'd be times where dispatchers would have a train crew sit on a siding for literal hours if not their entire 12 hour FRA mandated work period, and every train that goes by, that'd be $25, and even if they don't make it to the next depot, they get full mileage. This was something used to help keep the railroads honest, if they fuck around with moving freight, then they'd feel it in their pocket, and maybe get better fucking workers. But nope, the union gave that up.

UPS pays out the ass premium to get their shit moved from one place to another, and I'm sure there have been times they've had to call the railroad on not living up to their contractual obligations. BNSF uses letter designations for train priorities, and Z is the fastest, where you do your damnedest to get them from Point A to Point B as fast as possible; and I know there were times they spent a day or more sitting out in the middle of fucking nowhere.

The railroad is lucky they're too fucking important with national logistics, because they continue to make money despite everyone's best efforts to tank them.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Our economy is in the gutter and they are about to put a cannonball through it. Retard.

Perhaps it's time for the shippers to offer a better deal.

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Addressing an earlier point, this is what happens when a group of workers that nobody cares about tries to strike:

Medieval dinner show actors strike. It was unsuccessful.