Congrats fellow 99%ers! Rising tides
Well that shows how much profits weren’t going into worker pockets.
And this is likely still a major win for the owners
That was fast, good for them!
One wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use “the dockworker’s strike, don’t you know” as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?
Supposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.
The company I work for was already using it for expected price hikes in February 2025 lol
Right? I was worried it"d drag on…
“What am going to do with this pallet of toilet paper I panic bought?!?” - American idiots
The best part…we don’t import our toilet paper. People are dumb…
Peope cleared out the local grocery store of eggs on Tuesday despite our eggs being overwhelming laid domestically. The idiotic cherry on top was that the giant packs of 60 eggs were untouched. So everyone was buying a bunch of one dozen egg packs, and just leaving the bulk stuff. So that’s how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs
So that’s how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs
If the lore is accurate, after eating all of those you should be roughly as big as a barge.
Or dead from the cholesterol. One of the two.
He could make a cake, or a really big omelet.
If health care had internal solidarity, to do this type of thing, there probably wouldn’t be a shortage of workers willing to do direct patient care.
Good for these guys. The reality is that when you stay with a job you rarely get that pay rise commensurate with skill as the years creep forward such that the newer generation can sometimes make more than you year one, after you’ve worked 10yrs. This is why unions are key. They prevent that behind the scenes BS from occurring. And push cost of living increases on your behalf. The percentage sounds like a lot but when you break it down it’s simply logical increase.
Yes, health workers should be unionized. But if we want more doctors, first we need more residency positions. The Boomer doctors retired before the Boomers stopped needing health care. We need to be training a lot more doctors.
In the US anyway it’s pretty funny because nobody can afford to be a doctor except for people from already extremely privileged backgrounds… who tend to be pricks anyway.
So we don’t have enough doctors, the ones we do have have no perspective on how an average person actually lives, and some very weird views about wealth as it relates to healthcare.
One October surprise done ✔️
Wew, 10% per year? That’s actually pretty solid, if I’m not missing anything. And having a good deal that lasts THIS long actually flips the normal shitty status quo of multi-year contracts on its’ head, now they won’t need to go to the effort of big strikes for a good few years while they’ve got these fair wage increases locked in.
To be pedantic, it’s 100%–(162%)^(1/6)=8.4% per year. Still a great number, until you consider that their wages have been pretty stagnant for years.
Edit:
That may sound like an extreme demand, but workers would point out that wages for veteran dockworkers have increased 11% since the start of the last six-year contract, while inflation has jumped 24% in the same period.
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/09/29/get-ready-for-more-supply-chain-chaos
I’d also like to compare that to the average American. I suspect most people have done even worse than 11% in the last six years, which is why they don’t support these things. It’s not ‘fair’ they won’t get a similar treatment. It’s sad how many don’t want others to succeed because they are in a bad place.
#UNION STRONG!
Now come on Crew, beat the Mets to keep the good vibe rollin!
The vibes stopped rollin’ for you.
I’m a Mets fan.
This tension is gonna kill me! :)
Plenty of October left for them to Mets it up
I’m not sure how I feel about the no automation clause.
It’s still under discussion, right? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-port-strike-throws-spotlight-big-union-foe-automation-2024-10-04/
Me neither but honestly widespread automation should come with a UBI system. Otherwise people will starve.
Unless the govt wants to start UBI or otherwise guarantee a job with livable wages I feel fine about it.
Does that have any impact on you or are you just worried about profits?
Yes, I work in supply chain. Being a dock worker is a tough grueling job, wouldn’t we want to automate that as much as possible? Besides cost, automated ports are both safer and more efficient. I think the ideal scenario would be to grant some sort of retraining.
We would if there were just equivalent, just as well paying jobs elsewhere. However until we topple the system that makes us work to make the rich richer just to survive we have no choice.
Refusing to act until the system is toppled is the same as refusing to act. Just you can pretend you’re not complicit.
There’s no point waiting until capitalism is destroyed in the Great Socialist Rapture. We should be trying to improve society under capitalism right now.
In this case, advocate for skills retraining and UBI.
Skills retraining is great if, like I said, there’s OPEN and comparable jobs to move them to that aren’t displacing other workers in the process. Unfortunately it’s not usually that easy
We have pretty low unemployment right now and aside from covid it’s been like this for a while. There are plenty of jobs out there for those with the skills.
Automation will only be used to make the job tougher and more grueling.
A job that used to take three people now has to be done by one, but at a much faster pace and now there’s a deadly robot that you have to work with.
You work in supply chain. Let me guess. Desk job?
Automated ports do not work that way, where employees interact directly with a robot. Instead employees stay at a desk and minimal employees are on the ground. Like I had mentioned, automated ports are safer.
I know that automated Amazon sorting facilities kill workers, the conveyance systems especially are extremely dangerous. People get sucked in to belts, bashed over the head by moving machinery and product, etc.
In the real world there are always workers forced to risk their lives with these machines.
Automation isn’t inherently bad, but it is bad when it’s implemented as a way to increase worker exploitation. That’s how it always works in real life, rather than promotional videos.
Not everyone gets to be at a desk.
Pretty broad term, “always”.
given expected 2% target inflation of prices YOY, that’s about 8.3%/yr raise good for them.
If I understand things, a good chunk of the increase is to offset the inflation that has happened since the last negotiation.
Sounds like all of those memes and tweets going around saying the head of the union was in league with Trump were nonsense. They would drag this out if it were just about the election. Boiling a contract negotiation down to presidential politics was insulting to that man and to union members everywhere, but don’t expect an apology.
LOL, (accidentally) called it!
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