The dockworker strikers do an Emily Litella
A crisis averted:
The theory is that a dockworkers’ strike would have been too damaging to the Democrats, so the problems have been patched up for now:
“Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday evening.
The tentative agreement would increase workers’ wages by 62% over the life of the 6-year contract, sources familiar confirm to ABC News.
This represents a significant increase from the shipping industry group’s offer of a 50% wage increase earlier this week. The union had been pushing for a 77% pay hike over six years.
The tentative agreement would bring the hourly wage for a top dockworker to $63 per hour at the end of the new contract, up from $39 per hour under the expired contract.
The workers’ demands about automation on the job have been pushed to mid-January.
Biden praised them, as well he might.
As the workers’ wages go up, I assume the prices of the goods they unload will reflect that.
[NOTE: Here’s Ace on the same subject.]
It’s Taft-Hartley without calling it Taft-Hartley leaving it to POTUS 47 to solve
Dockworkers union engages in extortion.
Wait until Jan. The reaction will depend on which one is President. But pre election, Harris dodged one.
But, having settled the money issue so quick does make one think it was a setup.
I’ve seen a sentiment expressed which goes something like this (and who knows, it may catch on):
Not soon enough to prevent the idiots in my area from cleaning the shelves of toilet paper and 90% of the inventory of paper towels as well. It took months to reappear last time.
My take is that whoever is actually running the country promised the port management companies and shipping lines that if Harris is elected she would owe them big time, and it would grease the skids on a whole variety of projects and regulatory actions that would benefit them if they rolled over on the pay increase now.