The huge dockworker strike. Here's what these unskilled laborers are demanding.

[StatesRightsForever]

Pretty good pay for work a trained monkey can do. OTOH we got dumb jocks and entertainers making $100 million a year. Wages make no sense in america.

oct 2 2024 The ILA contract that expired on Monday shows that the starting pay for dockworkers was $20 per hour. Pay rises to $24.75 after two years, $31.90 after three and tops out at $39 for workers with at least six years on the job.

Meanwhile, the ILA is demanding a 77% increase over the duration of the contract, with a $5 increase each year of the contract. Workers would make $44 the first year, $49 the second and up to $69 in the final year.

MSN

 

[westwall]

Pretty good pay for work a trained monkey can do. OTOH we got dumb jocks and entertainers making $100 million a year. Wages make no sense in america.

MSN

They are going to price themselves out of a job. Pretty much everything they do can be automated.

 

[Concerned American]

They are going to price themselves out of a job. Pretty much everything they do can be automated.

That is what they are striking for as well. NO Automation. I worked with the IBEW in the bay area at one time and got written up when the steward heard my ratchet wrench. I was written up for using a "speed wrench" instead of a combo because it was faster. SMH. Unions are well beyond their expiration date.

 

[initforme]

$20 ,per hour to start? Sad pay.

 

[initforme]

How is it that these jobs can affect things so much? Major fault in the whole system.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

MSN

 

[1srelluc]

If it goes beyond a week or two The Port of Virginia is gonna hire replacements.

We are a Right to Work state and the VSP knows how to handle union pukes if they decide to get sporty.

They cut their teeth in SW Virginia coal country.

 

[initforme]

So workers making $20 per hour to start are affecting things? Wow. That's likenot getting paid.

 

[BULLDOG]

Pretty good pay for work a trained monkey can do. OTOH we got dumb jocks and entertainers making $100 million a year. Wages make no sense in america.

MSN

Operating multi-million-dollar container handling equipment is hardly a job for unskilled workers. Go climb up on one of those massive Crains. See if you can get it started without killing everybody close by, and then come back and talk about unskilled labor.

 

[initforme]

If the job they do is do important to our beloved economy why is the starting wage a mere $20 per hour. Makes no sense.

 

[Concerned American]

So workers making $20 per hour to start are affecting things? Wow. That's likenot getting paid.

As businesses disappear that is what it will translate to. Congratulations.

 

[rampart]

Pretty good pay for work a trained monkey can do. OTOH we got dumb jocks and entertainers making $100 million a year. Wages make no sense in america.

MSN

i started by describing some aspects of the job, but screw you. they hire day labor at the port of gulfport. try it some day.

 

[justoffal]

They are going to price themselves out of a job. Pretty much everything they do can be automated.

Yup

 

[sparky]

So is this our October surprise? ~S~

 

[otto105]

Pretty good pay for work a trained monkey can do. OTOH we got dumb jocks and entertainers making $100 million a year. Wages make no sense in america.

MSN

Unskilled?

Seriously

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

$20 ,per hour to start? Sad pay.

What in the hell did you do for a living that you sneer at decent wages for unskilled labor? My last job was as government contractor and paid $18.00 an hour with no benefits. You didn't even have to have a high school diploma to do the job but you had to have some connection to the military to be hired.

 

[otto105]

What in the hell did you do for a living that you sneer at decent wages for unskilled labor? My last job was as government contractor and paid $18.00 an hour with no benefits. You didn't even have to have a high school diploma to do the job but you had to have some connection to the military to be hired.

Are you seriously stating that longshore workers have no skills.

 

[sparky]

What in the hell did you do for a living that you sneer at decent wages for unskilled labor? My last job was as government contractor and paid $18.00 an hour with no benefits. You didn't even have to have a high school diploma to do the job but you had to have some connection to the military to be hired.

I've been 'sneered' at my entire career as a blue collar Admiral

I've turned it around to a $$$ in my pocket, doing my best Forest Gump as i do.....

~S~

 

[initforme]

So some guy making $20 prr hour is going to affect things? Hard to fathom.

 

[initforme]

I'm all for compromise here but $20 per hour? And supposedly affects the economy if they show up or not? Wow. Just wow.