Preparations for the Dockworkers Strike--Just in Case it happens...

[Rastus]

Biden, et.al., is acting somewhat either vindictive or are extorting the dems before the election.  Biden says he will not invoke Taft-Hartley to stop the strike.  So yeah, why not?  So what might you need to get by?

If you like bananas you better buy some dried ones to get by.

Foreign fruits or veggies you like fresh settle on getting some canned ones.

Anything you were going to buy in the near future associated with electronics or Christmas gifts...would be good to get now.

I am getting tires this week that I was going to wait a couple of months until November...

Chocolates for Christmas.

Imported liquor.

Buying a car...especially a foreign one in the next few months...get it sooner.  US made cars will not go at a discount off sticker if this hits.

Anything imported you need....you may want to have a spare or two.

[alfsauve]

Capt Jack Sparrow:

Rum.  Why is it always the rum?

Whiskey actually.  I assume whiskey will be okay.  AMERICAN whiskey.  Don't drink that Canadian stuff, since they cheated on us during prohibition.

Got an extra TV.  Ham radio's working fine.  Have extra Arduino chips as well.   Most of what we buy food wise is at least N. American.  I can live on peaches and peanuts for quite a while.  Apples are about ready to pick, though I don't know what happened to the NC/SC/E.TN crops, we have a substantial local crop of them in N. GA

[TAB]

I have more than I weigh in elk meat in the freezer.   I am not worried.

Let them strike.   They only really hurt thenselves

[Pathfinder]

Let them strike.   They only really hurt thenselves

No, they will hurt everyone, and by "they" I mean the shippers as well as the union. The shippers made huge profits over the past 4-5 years, profits (not revenue) in the billions of $$$. Plus they are making profits with the red Sea/Suez all but closed by the Houthis. The ILA wants a piece of that action, as well as a reduction in automation in the docks (I dislike this one very much).

There is a video running around where the ILA head, Harold Daggett (who is the very epitome of a tattooed, gruff talking longshoreman) talking about crippling "them". He plainly describes what will happen over the next four weeks to availability and prices of goods on the shelf.

As for Biden, there is a thought moving through the ether that he is doing this to kill "da hoe" and her chances at the polls. He is seriously that pissed at being unceremoniously shoved aside - and forgotten! Or maybe it's Jill pulling his strings, don't know.

[TAB]

No, they will hurt everyone, and by "they" I mean the shippers as well as the union. The shippers made huge profits over the past 4-5 years, profits (not revenue) in the billions of $$$. Plus they are making profits with the red Sea/Suez all but closed by the Houthis. The ILA wants a piece of that action, as well as a reduction in automation in the docks (I dislike this one very much).

There is a video running around where the ILA head, Harold Daggett (who is the very epitome of a tattooed, gruff talking longshoreman) talking about crippling "them". He plainly describes what will happen over the next four weeks to availability and prices of goods on the shelf.

As for Biden, there is a thought moving through the ether that he is doing this to kill "da hoe" and her chances at the polls. He is seriously that pissed at being unceremoniously shoved aside - and forgotten! Or maybe it's Jill pulling his strings, don't know.

don't you remember what happened to the port of seattle?

[Sponsor]

[MikeBjerum]

Another group wanting income, benefits, wealth and future, but are unwilling to exhibit the work ethic that goes with it.

Not apologizing for any toes I step on. I'm tired of listening to people around my current home whine about only getting 7% raises, only having three or four weeks of vacation, being required to go to the office (classroom) to work and being expected to actually work more than 40 hours per week, either weekly or occasionally.

[Big Frank]

don't you remember what happened to the port of seattle?

No. What?

[TAB]

No. What?

  about 10 years ago they went on strike, 80% of the ports business  was one company.   They said fu and went to a different  port.   Most of the long shore man got laid off.

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

  about 10 years ago they went on strike, 80% of the ports business  was one company.   They said fu and went to a different  port.   Most of the long shore man got laid off.

As it should be.

[MikeBjerum]

Some of us (Lowly little me and a few high power businessmen i have become friends with) have been following this. The demands are for $5 per hour pay increase per year for six years, no automated gates, no automated crane functions, and no automated transports in the yards. I watched and listened to these highly successful men reason it out. These men grew business from nothing to annual sales ranging from $750 million to $1.25 billion. They did this while keeping the unions out. Their labor strategy was to pay above union scale, have superior benefits to union, and offer overtime (big pay bonus for people who have a work ethic).

These men came up with a plan:
1. Offer a three-year contract with $10 per hour increase.
2. No automation additions to operations.

Now the kicker:
1. Automated gates, container tracking and vehicle tracking is available. Day one of year four all tracking, inventory, and access is automated.
2. Day one through month 6 of year four, all cranes are fitted with automated control and readers for RFID and/or bar codes.
3. Day one through month 3 of year four, all yard tractors are replaced with automated that will pickup empty chassis, move to be loaded with container, and move the chassis to the pickup lot.
4. Longshoremen will be offered the opportunity to modernize and grow with the companies, or they will be offered a small severance package to assit in vocational retraining or to aid in moving out of town.