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Oh, Shit! Los Angeles Port Union Workers Going To Strike. | |
Burt Gummer  User ID: 7702124  United States11/28/2012 12:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 19980561 United States11/28/2012 02:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | These guys can get a bit rough. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 28256524 It's the clerks (who I once read can make 100K/yr) who are striking, but "...Perhaps even more significant than the picket line was that the longshore union that loads and unloads ships at port was honoring it and refusing to work at the terminal..." [link to www.latimes.com] A picket line has shut down the APM Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles, shown above. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union's Local 63 Office Clerical Unit, which handles paperwork involved in the loading and unloading of vessels at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is trying to prevent the outsourcing of its jobs. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / July 9, 2012) Reagan..Reagan..Reagan!!! Pull a Reagan on them. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 21734520  Finland11/28/2012 02:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't get the American hostility towards trade unions. It would be naive to trust the good will and understanding of those who could make more profit by exploiting us. Historically the labor movement has been essential in creating better and safer working conditions for all of us, establishing minimum wages, and providing safeguards against predatory employers resorting to child labor or requiring contracts that practically amount to slavery (e.g. work 10 hours a day for 7 days a week with no annual vacation, health care or sick leaves). Treat your workers right and you won't have trouble with the unions. |
| Dr. Lecter User ID: 24275310 United States11/28/2012 02:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | fuck the unions... fuck la.... and fuck obama. "Moral of the story is I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again. ==== ESTJ-a (Executive) 93% Extroverted, 82% Observant, 83% Thinking, 82% Judging,72% Assertive ==== |
| SevenThunders User ID: 15851599 United States11/28/2012 02:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 23076749 United States11/28/2012 03:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| SevenThunders User ID: 15851599 United States11/28/2012 03:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't get the American hostility towards trade unions. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21734520 It would be naive to trust the good will and understanding of those who could make more profit by exploiting us. Historically the labor movement has been essential in creating better and safer working conditions for all of us, establishing minimum wages, and providing safeguards against predatory employers resorting to child labor or requiring contracts that practically amount to slavery (e.g. work 10 hours a day for 7 days a week with no annual vacation, health care or sick leaves). Treat your workers right and you won't have trouble with the unions. Marxist much? The unions in America are part of a cabal to utterly destroy the foundational principles of the American constitutional republic and replace it with a Marxist dictatorship. Their plan, already announced, is to bankrupt the nation and control the revolution that ensues. So far they have been successful and soon will get the power they crave so much. As such they are enemies of the few patriots left in this country. Unions have nothing to do with workers rights these days, at least in this country. It's primarily about power. They enslave their members, many of whom are actually forced to pay union dues against their will. [link to grandrants.wordpress.com] With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 28603171 United States11/28/2012 04:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't get the American hostility towards trade unions. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21734520 It would be naive to trust the good will and understanding of those who could make more profit by exploiting us. Historically the labor movement has been essential in creating better and safer working conditions for all of us, establishing minimum wages, and providing safeguards against predatory employers resorting to child labor or requiring contracts that practically amount to slavery (e.g. work 10 hours a day for 7 days a week with no annual vacation, health care or sick leaves). Treat your workers right and you won't have trouble with the unions. what have unions done for us lately ? like in the past 50 years ? |
| krosty User ID: 15571780 United States11/28/2012 04:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Proud to be a Teamster |
| Devoted Follower User ID: 28055738 United States11/28/2012 04:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you care anything for your life you'd remove yourself as quickly as possible from L.A. All that will remain after the mass riots will be burnt out buildings and what's left of the populace...think who would be left after such an event... The most blood thirsty, ruthless gang bangers imaginable... Those that remained alive because the preyed off those weaker than themselves... Burning, raping, murdering, and looting will be their life blood. It is all they know and all they will ever know.  |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28256524 United States11/28/2012 01:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28256524 United States11/28/2012 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ...the clerical workers – who make about $40 an hour and get 11 weeks off per year – among the highest paid in the nation... [link to losangeles.cbslocal.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28256524 United States11/28/2012 11:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Burt Gummer User ID: 7702124 United States11/28/2012 11:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28256524 United States11/29/2012 10:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So, here's the latest update in the local paper: [pic of nice long line of backed-up trucks] "A strike by about 800 clerical workers is disrupting the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and costing them an estimated $1 billion a day. The small band of strikers that has effectively shut down the nation's busiest shipping complex forced two huge cargo ships to head for other ports Thursday and kept at least three others away, hobbling an economic powerhouse in Southern California. [link to www.latimes.com] |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 28256524 United States11/29/2012 10:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Stephen Berry, lead negotiator for the shipping lines and cargo terminals, said the clerical workers have been offered a deal that includes "absolute job security," a raise that would take average annual pay to $195,000 from $165,000, 11 weeks' paid vacation and a generous pension increase. [link to www.latimes.com] |
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Some little girls hide behind the computer to talk out of their asses and have no respect ! You are right on with your comment my friend !
