Port strike ends as workers agree to tentative deal on wages and contract extension
Port strike ends as workers agree to tentative deal on wages and contract extension
The strike was the first by the ILA since 1977, and it impacted port operations at 36 different ports, including the 10 busiest ports in North America.
All these people hoarding TP must feel like morons now. (jk, they’re incapable of introspection)
The fucking hilarious bit is that the great majority of TP is produced in the US, from Canadian trees. It was never in any danger of shortages.
I was eating dinner with my folks and my mom related a story to me that after she had lunch with one of her friends, the friend when to 2 Costcos in the area. Not a pack of PT, TP, nor bottled water anywhere. Naturally I went to Target after because I was legit looking for other items and low and behold, shelves almost fully stocked with both. No limits. Cottonelle had BOGO 10% off, Charmin got a $10 gift card when you by x$ worth.
People are fucking panicky
I somehow missed that people were hoarding tp again. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I went to buy some and found nearly the entire aisle bare. Luckily there was plenty of the store brand, so I guess people were panick buying but not panicked enough to consider a different brand.
Hey, they've already started on their Beavis and Butthead costumes for Halloween!
The union also sought limits on automation at ports. The joint statement only mentions wages.
So I'm guessing -- though we'll see what further articles talk about -- that they probably got concessions on wages, but not on automation.
I hope they get huge pay raises and job security, but I can't support their anti-automation stance. This generation of longshoremen will likely be the last - soon it will all be robot technicians.
I don't think that it'll go away. I think that there will be a longshoreman.
It'll just do something different than in 2024.
Same way a longshoreman a hundred years ago, pre-containerization, would have been wrestling boxes around instead of moving containers on a crane.