Port Strike

[cuerro viejo]

Shawn Fain is the president of the UAW and during the recent autoworkers strike he said Stellantar (maker of jeep, ram, and Chrysler) is the enemy. He got much of the pay raise he was asking for. Now, unfortunately, there are media reports about Stellantis laying off 50% of their US workforce

The longshoremen are walking down that same road to pricing themselves out of a job

Mexico imports over 700k vehicles into the U.S. now…..

 

[Amos Keeto]

Looks like the strike just ended, and they are going to resume negotiations.

There may be a momentary "cease-fire", but a work slow down can be just as effective.

 

[Q child]

There may be a momentary "cease-fire", but a work slow down can be just as effective.

Yeah, hopefully they can negotiate a deal that works for everyone.

 

[Amos Keeto]

Mexico imports over 700k vehicles into the U.S. now…..

Back in the late 60's, railroads built what they call "high-cube" boxcars.
From bulkhead to bulkhead, those cars are 96 feet long and 10 feet tall inside.
The cars are loaded with wire crates of auto parts.
Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of those "Hi-Cube" cars cross the Mexican border daily.
Automobile parts are assembled into components, loaded BACK in those Hi-Cube cars and returned stateside to auto manufacturers to be assembled into vehicles.

But unions are so stupid, they have yet to realize their inordinate demands have forced corporations to seek cheaper labor across the border!
There is NO automobile "manufactured" wholly within the U.S.! They are all assembled from foreign manufactured parts!

That's why when my eldest was looking for a 1 ton, dually, 4 door pickup, dealerships were asking $75,000!

 

[BBob]

All I can find is it is a six year deal. I knew they would not get eight years, and kind by surprised by six. If it is ten years, that's crazy.

A deal has been struck to end the US port strike.

“Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” both parties said in a joint statement.

Dockworkers will see an approximately 62% wage hike over six years under the new deal, a source familiar with the bargaining process told Reuters. The union had been asking for a 77% raise.


With the biggest issue — wages — settled, both sides have agreed to extend their master contract through Jan. 15, 2025, to continue bargaining on several other outstanding contract issues while dockhands are back at work. The extension buys both parties time to negotiate a new six-year contract.

The strike, which began just after midnight Tuesday when the prior contract expired, was the first time dock workers with the union walked off the job since 1977.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ship-queue-grows-us-ports-dockworker-strike-enters-third-day-2024-10-03/

 

[Jmort1754]

insane raises

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Meanwhile the union member on here has been on Rokslide while at work….

I’m a union member and I probably spend 30% of my 8 hour day on rokslide.