Possible strike at port of houston

[IowaHunter]

Gimme gimme gimme. Most people pursue a different job or employment if they’re not making enough money. You don’t force it upon the American economy. As to automation - that’s called evolution if the workplace. Virtually all work environments enhance itself through automation in one manner or another. Companies that are more profitable can and often do pay the employee more.

[Traildust]

I could bring in a crew of pipefitters and take over that entire industry in about 3 days...maybe less

[RiverRat1]

I wish someone would explain what a Union does or why it's good for anyone except the workers in the union.

And as you explain please tell me why every industry should not have a union (fast food, HEB, semiconductors, farmers-lol imagine the cost of a bag of corn, etc.

[trophyhunter01]

From the data published there are 47k union folks in this strike. As for the millions of other workers not a part of a union that works and thrives in a free market the message the union sends is a losing one. US numbers only 10% of workers belong to a union, there is a reason for that, it is a dying model. You talk like you have some army out there to go to battle but the numbers don’t add up to your special club. Keep paying your dues and making the union leadership rich.

[Hollywood]

Sounds like a great idea for people who can’t cut it in a free market economy. Also sounds like some democrat tactics to me.
I’m sure the unions had their place way back in time, but now they’re ready to try and cripple the economy even further just because they don’t get their way. If they want that 77% pay increase, be worth it in a free market. If you don’t get it, you’re probably not worth it. And threatening the rest of the country like that as a way of negotiating is nothing more than throwing a fit. Same as the kid in the store throwing a fit because they don’t get what they want. It’s time to bring in non union workers and let the unions figure out what they’ll do with their thousands of unemployed workers who don’t get unemployment.

This ^^^^^

[Bayouboy]

One day longer.
One day stronger!

[Traildust]

One day longer.
One day stronger!

Hey, you still over at the OG or the bgr now since the purchase?

[Bayouboy]

Hey, you still over at the OG or the bgr now since the purchase?

Are you crazy? I am at the mini marathon. Exactly where I will stay until I retire!

[Bayouboy]

ILA finna eat!

[Death from Above]

For all of you tough guys go ahead and slither across the picket lines and make your quick buck. This isn't your right to work state type union boss and leadership.
Don't worry.... Your TEMU and Amazon is safe on a ship docked out at sea



Max Meyer on X: "Harold Daggett, the ILA boss who pledged to "cripple" the United States, owns a 76-foot yacht, a Bentley, and gets paid over $900,000. He was acquitted on RICO charges after the main witness against him, mobster Lawrence Ricci, was found decomposing in a car trunk in New Jersey. https://t.co/VgJ0QtkrV2" / X

This is your Union leadership?

If so, are you proud of that representation?

[SaltwaterSlick]

ILA finna eat!

yea, and you'll shat too if you eat regular. They keep this crap up, they'll lay a big one that's piled so high, they'll have to move over 3 times...

[Dusty Britches]

The thing about unions is they aren't exactly for the workers, either. My dad's uncle was a union steward in Chicago. The unions took money from workers in the form of "union dues" for years and years. The thought was when a strike rolled around the union would cover their missing wages to 60%. After 40 years the union went on strike and strike pay was $4 / day when workers were getting paid $16/ hour. After 2 weeks, the strike fund was depleted. Workers started selling everything they owned to buy food and after a few more weeks, they were willing to take any deal the company offered. And the union bosses were still driving past the picket lines in their limos and eating at 5 star restaurants with the company heads. They didn't care that men were selling their cars, clothes and everything else to put food on the table.

My dad's uncle was glad he was a steward because he was higher up and was paid full wages for the strike. When he retired, he left for Texas and told everyone how corrupt the unions are. Texas is a right to work state but many states in the NE are closed labor states - union membership required.

[Man]

us numbers only 10% of workers belong to a union, there is a reason for that, it is a dying model.

^^^^this!^^^^

[Bayouboy]

This is your Union leadership?

If so, are you proud of that representation?

Old school pit bull! Sometimes that is the only language money barons understand.

For some folks that have never been union you boys sure know everything about it!

[C.Read]

It's a shame the socialists in govt have outlawed firing them all and replacing them. If I had my way they would report for their next scheduled shift or be fired and replaced. They KNOW they are hurting the economy, they use the "families" excuse, while ignoring all the families in the US that are just barely getting by and can't take any more price increases.

Exactly the way I see it.

That don’t make you a hero Jack, grocery workers were workin too 🤣😂🤣😂🇺🇸

Contrary to the false narrative put on by union workers, a heap of folks were workin their azzes off !

Spot on. Just because they went to work during the plandemic......whoopty fk'n doo. So did I.




What's on those boats is irrelevant......a poorly designed cell phone case from TEMU, a cheap knock off China made Honda carb from Amazon or a new Bentley from Cheshire.....the price on all of it will go up the longer it sits anchored at sea and it will be the end user that pays for a bunch of grown men acting like a bunch of Nancy's.