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

[yidnar]

30 years ago it was decent at best

depends on where you live .. one things for sure 20 bucks an hr buys a lot less than it did just 4 yrs ago ..

 

[Chillicothe]

News tonight is that the strike is settle....at least till January.

 

[Billiejeens]

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

Your beloved unions.

 

[Billiejeens]

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.

That one thinks that labor should make all the money.

 

[Billiejeens]

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

1 guy has no affect.

 

[yidnar]

News tonight is that the strike is settle....at least till January.

till after the election ..

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It worked so well with fast food workers

 

[Billiejeens]

till after the election ..

They moved the 50% offer up to 62%

 

[Missouri_Mike]

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.

You’re coming into a job with no skills, no training and need to be taught everything and you think 20 an hour is low? Fuck off.

 

[Winco]

till after the election ..

And you hate that they settled, huh!

There goes another Cult Talking Point.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

And you hate that they settled, huh!

There goes another Cult Talking Point.

They had no choice. They go back to work tomorrow and on Monday the automation engineers arrive and begin designing the end of their jobs.

 

[Dragonlady]

You’re coming into a job with no skills, no training and need to be taught everything and you think 20 an hour is low? Fuck off.

It's all relativee to how much it costs to put a roof over your head. If rents are $2000 per month, $20 an hour isn't going to do it for you.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

It's all relativee to how much it costs to put a roof over your head. If rents are $2000 per month, $20 an hour isn't going to do it for you.

You’re 18 and living at home. If you aren’t you’re an idiot that wasted years of your life not building a skill. If you’re 25 and have a kid it’s still a raise over your other skill of drive-thru manager.

Rent prices have nothing to do with your skill level. You aren’t skilled enough to rent that place. The only person that can fix that is you. The jobs you are qualified for don’t adjust your pay based on your wishes. You’re fucking lucky someone is willing to pay your dumb ass 20 an hour for a chance.

 

[yidnar]

And you hate that they settled, huh!

There goes another Cult Talking Point.

there's been no settlement dumb ass ... they put off the strike until Jan ..