Kicking the can down the road. Hopefully the USMX will be serious about negotiations. Also, it's funny about the people hoarding paper towels and TP (which is made in the US).
Massive Raw bulk paper rolls, and also equally massive bundles of raw unprocessed paper pulp are among the two major cargos unloaded by the local 440 in Port Arthur, TX.... I would know because I unloaded these two types of cargo there.... Saying TP is made in the USA is like saying Gas is refined here, or cars are constructed here.... Sure but the raw materials are coming in on ships.
Sal! You are a super star 🎉🎉🎉 happy to see that people across the media are finally reaching out to the folks who KNOW what they’re talking about. Again congratulations Dr.
Sal I really appreciate your input & it looks like news reporters are finally figuring out you’re the guy👈🏽 I knew that a while back. Why I think you are very important is because this is a stressful time we are in & stellar information from you on shipping I think is easing some stress in society. Thanks for your contribution!
My only real critisism of this coverage was there was no real mention of *why* automation is so neccesary going forward (and it really *is* needed) which I think is a key missing peice of the puzzle that lets us put both the ILA's fears but also the practical realities of why it's being pushed for into context. I've heard you speak on it before and I agree pretty much completely with your balanced take on it so I think it'd be good to push that when you're speaking with cable news
Even China that has virtually unlimited quantities of very, very cheap labor has automated its terminals. If you look up places like the Yangtze River there are container terminals as far as the eye can see. Automation increases efficiency, safety and reduces errors. It is the future. If I were the longshoreman, I would be embracing it and working to get my people trained to become the technicians and operators of the equipment, You have to change with the times.
Great stuff! But, Sal, do you seriously think the corporate media would show anything but threats from labor or detail the working conditions and wages of mariners from the Phillipines? Thank goodness for the depth you go into with both sides.
Why? There is an election around the corner and the world is falling apart. The Dems probably were going to pull a Jane Sanders on him and make his life difficult. That is how they operate.
Well, the two sides seem to have come to their senses; hopefully it stays that way. One can only think that all this could have been accomplished a couple weeks earlier and avoided any disruption at all.
A hundred days and counting. Will give credit where it is due. Joe "current occupant" did the right thing keeping hands off. Both sides needed to return to the table. The mediation effort paid off so kudos to the lady and administration. Sadly only a respite so hope it is worked out. Thanks to the channel and Sal. Excellent blog.
He didn’t keep his hands off at all, he’s directly responsible for the actions of his administration- Julie Su. There should have been no negotiation, the states should’ve called in the national guard, as you do when people make threats against national security.
@@savagej4y241 is every pro-union person this stupid?! I swear to god not a single one of you have made any good arguments for why these people should ever be employed again. it’s “fascism” for the government to refuse to negotiate with people who are actively threatening it?! You couldn’t defrost chicken with your IQ
*Sal, do you work some deal out with Fox that allows you to have rights or ownership of the content? Normally I dont see news agencies letting people use their segments on their own channel. So its dope to see that you can have free control to post your segment. Again, thanks for everything! Also, if you still need a mod, I'll be a volunteer!*
Tentative sounds like not so sure. Is a piece of paper worth the ink Or will they back out in a couple of years. Sal you do a great job keeping us up to date on all things shipping.
I am Not an ILA member. I retired at the end of 2022 after turning 70 just shy of 50 years as a Surveyor and Adjuster. My home port is Baltimore but I worked at ports along the USEC on assignment in Boston, NY/NJ, Philly, Wilmington DE down to Portsmouth VA. Baltimore has a Container port at Seagirt not as large as others and some go to Dundalk and Locust Point. Baltimore's activity is more with Bulk and RoRo, that is New Cars and Heavy Equipment. I don't think Automation is as big an issue here as some other ports.
I understand. If a large hospital or hotel employed 100 people washing/drying/folding its linen using washboards and other manual activities, the union would fight the purchase of industrial machines that washed/dried/folded that requires 10 people to operate and would result in the hospital or hotel getting rid of 90 people.
And then claim that, actually, having 100 people do the work with less efficiency is better, because the people pay taxes. Because of course, that’s the only job they can do.
No not everyone would want this job that could possibly kill you and you’re never home with your family. When he said he would cripple he meant the shipping industry not the American people. I love how people are quick to judge and be negative when everybody from this hurricane is suffering because FEMA isn’t helping but the ILA they donated $100,000
@@Pm678-b1b No, but the worst case scenario with machines is that they break, not that they die. There’s no reason human beings should be risking themselves doing this work in the first place.
@@deProfundisAdAstra There’s plenty of jobs out there that are dangerous and they pay well because of it but then there’s jobs out there that aren’t as dangerous but anything could happen.
How do US ports compare to other ports in the world? What percentage of the supply of shipping containers does the US have in it ? Thanks for the videos!
The abrupt ending of the strike was a clear sign of government intervention. We were hit with the Taft-Hartley act just not in a way that would disgrace the ILA. On the ground momentum was on the side and building for the union. So the announcement went out the strike was over however, pay doesn’t increase nor are the negotiations over until 1-15-25. Which is a 90 day cool off period “Taft-Hartly”. This time gets past the election and the holiday season and all of the leverage ILA had. Im disappointed in this ending but also understand they never found Hoffa.
Automation does not go on strike and doesn't demand higher wages, works in all kinds of weather, does not take sick days, does not insist on a fat pension and in general is not a pain to work with as a longshoreman can be. The union may have won this one but in reality is digging its own grave a bit faster by outrageous demands.
Automation also doesn't pay taxes, buy cars, buy homes, consume goods that put neighbors to work. Ya know, the basic things that contribute to an economy...
@@christopherludlow3106Yes, just like how cars don’t pay taxes, or dish washers, or cellphones, airplanes, lawnmowers, LED bulbs, toaster ovens, or air conditioners. Every one of those things had an equivalent person performing some amount of labor to do the same job worse, and every single one of them has improved our lives. You are not owed a job, nor do you deserve special protection from the automation everyone else in the economy faces just because you’re part of a union.
sal didn't explain enough that shipping companies are forced to buy new ships because of international pollution control regulations . it's either that or install scrubber systems which are also expensive and may get banned later anyway. the scrubbers scrub out the black soot but put it into the water . and they do nothing for Co2 . improved efficiency reduces Co2 which means bigger ships . more containers reduces fuel consumed per container.and as he said they were barely making money before covid. in 2019 a container from china to ny was 2800 now it's over 10,000
that won't happen because they already got a huge raise and automation means many things. start by automating paperwork so truckers can get loaded quicker instead of waiting around. much time is lost in waiting from arrival to when someone knows to get their container . that needs to be computerized like any fast food place or amazon or anywhere they do volume.
Went back k to work to keep America moving. Things were already close. Just a matter of putting the correct wording so the companies can’t circumvent the contract again
Completely depends on the administration. If Trump wins Daggett won't stick around. With that type of tone, the DJT administration would absolutely gut them.
I guess someone in the administration made a phone call.. and if they read the tea leaves correctly they were going to lose in the long term. There's too many people needing jobs and those are good jobs.
Alan Villiers was disgusted with the Australian unions for their work practice while loading a ship in Sth Africa, taking a tea break or lunch break while loading and thus stopping all workers in the port. A strike just pisses off the people you need support from because we all need to eat.
Blame US industries for moving jobs and production out of the country for your reliance on cheap bullshit from overseas not the guys who unload said cheap bullshit from the ships
The ILA made the perfect argument for automation. Machines don’t go on strike. Machines don’t demand exorbitant wages and special working arrangements. Machines just keep working. Provided that they don’t break down. Humans are far more unreliable than machines.
Those machines don’t pay taxes or buy cars and houses. They contribute 0 back to city’s or states. So whenever your little burg needs revenue your taxes will be going up.
Don't blame prices on wages. The extraction of profit does far more to prices than wages do, and the incentives producing this result should be obvious to any adult.
With holidays coming up, the union should have took their best offer. If everything gets pushed back to next year, their bargaining chips get smaller because not only is there less urgency to ship because the holiday season passed, but we'll have a new president (regardless of who it is). And its hard to put a finger of what either president will do. And then you have Israel and Ukraine potentially causing even more slowdown of products moving in and out.
God Bless America. Big ty to Dept of Commerce 🤪 Think I'll buy up a boat load of TP on my home today in celebration of this agreement and expectation of a whole lotta of ship going on 😂
Not sure about you, but I've never received a 10% wage increase in back to back years, let alone for over half a decade. I'd say they did pretty well, especially if they can keep most of their members employed.
@@andrewfidel2220 i worked offshore on crewboats and in 3 years i went from 100 a day to 300 a day. Longshoreman in 18 years they got a 14 dollar raise but the foreign shipping companies gave them selves billion dollar bonuses somethings not right here they just own the boats and container while the American workers ain't getting it im for American workers times are hard there president said he would cripple the shipping companies be American people took it the wrong way we need to stand together
The problem with International Shipping is that too many entities " wet their beak " at every opportunity during the movement of goods . Everything in the industry is a convoluted hodge podge of wet spaghetti among numerous regulations, insurance, ownerships and labor . A Salvador Dali painting makes more sense than what we have now .
The guy with a million dollar salary with a 7,000sqft house, wearing a gold chain with a $40,000 Rolex watch in his 75ft yacht is lecturing about how “I’m going to cripple this Country” has some serious issues when he’s talking about how he relates to the everyday worker.
Keep crying about it. This is history in the making. The Maritime Alliance group folded like a napkin because they have more than enough resources to pay their workers properly.
He’s been a longshoreman since the last strike. I’d love to be making that much money after doing the same thing for 50 years. FYI The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross’ Hurricane Helene Relief fund on Wednesday.
@@Pm678-b1b It was PR. They likely had people monitoring social media and saw how the way it would affect the hurricane relief and how unpopular their mob boss' statements about crippling the country were. One hundred grand wouldn't have done squat if supplies couldn't get in.
The entire union across the US is run by the Mob. We all know it, yet they act like they are keeping a secret. It's like 60 minutes with their "special report" 6 years late.
From LatinAmerica here, let me give you a preview If they agreed in 65 of increase in 4 years... be prepared to see a more than 15 % of inflation a year,.... this is how we got to hyperinflation
The shippers have already increased the costs to the public. That's why the union went on strike. They were making around 25% less due to inflation, while the shippers were reporting %800 increase in profits in some cases.
Interestingly, ZIM was paying out so much in dividends to their shareholders, it almost made them go under when prices went back down to ~25% above pre covid levels.
Automation is fine. Just make sure all the money saved goes to increased wages and more time off for workers. Make sure shareholders and management get nothing.
Automation will eventually backfire when the jobless rate gets to 30%. Best to be some of the first to automate and enjoy profits before society unravels
@@briansimon8969 No. We automate as much as we can, then give the money to people who would have been employed doing those jobs. Stop the money from going to shareholders. Redirect it to the proletariat.
@@briansimon8969 We’ve been automating jobs for 200 years and the only thing that’s happened over that period of time is the greatest increase in personal wealth and the greatest decrease in income inequality in the 5000 year written history of mankind.
Hourly wage makes good sense, that was the easy part. What about the royalty issue?Maybe I’m wrong, but that appears to be a goods tax on consumers for the benefit of ILA members. They did not invent, develop, invest in, or produce the goods. Their job is to unload them. The royalty issue has potential to increase cost of goods a LOT. Who else may want the same sweet deal?Everybody……
Automation is the future. Even China that has massive amounts of cheap labor has automated terminals. This is like horse and buggy drivers trying to stop the evolution to trucks.
What does that last sentence? Say all current job actions will cease what does that mean? And all work covered by the Master contract will resume what does that mean?
Wasn't too long ago when containers were taken as a threat. Let's open some more ports and build more American cargo ships. Let the robots do the dirty work under human supervision and control.
There were runs on toilet paper in the stores in my city today. So, yes it already began. It is fresh and people's minds how quickly we ran out of certain things when covid hit our Nation.
That guy has the best maritime information love his channel
This is that guy's channel.
Always makes me smirk to see you in a jacket with you comfortable Hawai'ian shirt when you help educate the traditional media outlets.
I noticed that too.😊
Heres to your success 🍻
Hope the channel is growing for the sake of the viewers and the communication of accurate info.
Thanks Sal
Much appreciated!
@@wgowshipping I appreciate you Sal, been sharing links to the channel pretty much daily on different live streams for different channels I moderate.
@@AllNighterHeiderthis is the same dude saying Thursday that this was going to last another 17 or so days...
@@eddy66t6 I heard no hard predictions, just thoughtful considerations. I would not be complimenting Sal or ANYONE trying to sell me answers
I came for the Ever Given getting stuck in the Suez, stayed for the Piracy, Houthi attacks, and Ocean Gate.
Thank you Sal we heard the details from you. Hope your channel grows.
Sal, You kept us appraised of what was going on during this time. Thanks.
Sal is all over the place lately!! Keep up the good work! Love the channel!!
Kicking the can down the road. Hopefully the USMX will be serious about negotiations.
Also, it's funny about the people hoarding paper towels and TP (which is made in the US).
Massive Raw bulk paper rolls, and also equally massive bundles of raw unprocessed paper pulp are among the two major cargos unloaded by the local 440 in Port Arthur, TX.... I would know because I unloaded these two types of cargo there....
Saying TP is made in the USA is like saying Gas is refined here, or cars are constructed here.... Sure but the raw materials are coming in on ships.
Anyone who thinks it's funny is very unaware how close we are to WW3 and the end of the global economy.
@@kfreeman4992and if any parts break in their machinery they have to replace it. Parts that are not necessarily made in the U.S. but overseas.
And cases of water: Retail worker, my paper towels, TP, and case water isles are all empty, and it's all made in the US! People are gosh darned crazy!
No. It’s Just about done. But got back k to work so there’s no halt in good coming in.
Sal! You are a super star 🎉🎉🎉 happy to see that people across the media are finally reaching out to the folks who KNOW what they’re talking about. Again congratulations Dr.
Looking smart Sal.
Sal sporting the jacket. I really enjoy the updates. Cheers from the South Carolina Lowcountry (next door to Savannah.)
Sal I really appreciate your input & it looks like news reporters are finally figuring out you’re the guy👈🏽 I knew that a while back. Why I think you are very important is because this is a stressful time we are in & stellar information from you on shipping I think is easing some stress in society. Thanks for your contribution!
3:48 I've heard StarWars AT-AT walkers were based on harbour cranes, and I can see it now, basically the same proportions 😊
Man but traffic on Hampton Blvd on Norfolk has been awesome this week with out all the port of Va truck traffic
I like the quick change wardrobe! Jacket on for prime time, jacket off for WIGOWS.
My only real critisism of this coverage was there was no real mention of *why* automation is so neccesary going forward (and it really *is* needed) which I think is a key missing peice of the puzzle that lets us put both the ILA's fears but also the practical realities of why it's being pushed for into context. I've heard you speak on it before and I agree pretty much completely with your balanced take on it so I think it'd be good to push that when you're speaking with cable news
Because it is a dangerous job so automation keeps them safe.
Even China that has virtually unlimited quantities of very, very cheap labor has automated its terminals. If you look up places like the Yangtze River there are container terminals as far as the eye can see. Automation increases efficiency, safety and reduces errors. It is the future. If I were the longshoreman, I would be embracing it and working to get my people trained to become the technicians and operators of the equipment, You have to change with the times.
Great stuff! But, Sal, do you seriously think the corporate media would show anything but threats from labor or detail the working conditions and wages of mariners from the Phillipines? Thank goodness for the depth you go into with both sides.
I’m surprised how quickly they came up with something, even if temporary.
Why? There is an election around the corner and the world is falling apart. The Dems probably were going to pull a Jane Sanders on him and make his life difficult. That is how they operate.
It'll give them time to get those machines up and running
Election year!!
@@TheFunkybert the cynical in me agrees but I’d like to think otherwise. Most likely you’re right though.
@@latisewilson4561 won't happen
Well, the two sides seem to have come to their senses; hopefully it stays that way. One can only think that all this could have been accomplished a couple weeks earlier and avoided any disruption at all.
Good afternoon Sal. Tennessee here.
Great discussion about the situation and the players. I didn’t hear before about Julie Su being there on the scene to get the two sides talking.
A hundred days and counting. Will give credit where it is due. Joe "current occupant" did the right thing keeping hands off. Both sides needed to return to the table. The mediation effort paid off so kudos to the lady and administration. Sadly only a respite so hope it is worked out. Thanks to the channel and Sal. Excellent blog.
He didn’t keep his hands off at all, he’s directly responsible for the actions of his administration- Julie Su.
There should have been no negotiation, the states should’ve called in the national guard, as you do when people make threats against national security.
@@deProfundisAdAstra Try negotiations first. Pressure on both sides so it may work or maybe not.
@@kiyoshitakeda452 Why should the government negotiate with people who are actively threatening them?
@@deProfundisAdAstra That would just be straight up fascism.
@@savagej4y241 is every pro-union person this stupid?! I swear to god not a single one of you have made any good arguments for why these people should ever be employed again. it’s “fascism” for the government to refuse to negotiate with people who are actively threatening it?! You couldn’t defrost chicken with your IQ
Good job bringing on a real expert this time
*Sal, do you work some deal out with Fox that allows you to have rights or ownership of the content? Normally I dont see news agencies letting people use their segments on their own channel. So its dope to see that you can have free control to post your segment. Again, thanks for everything! Also, if you still need a mod, I'll be a volunteer!*
How can you limit automation? It’s all about cost not employment, at least in a capitalist economy.
Tentative sounds like not so sure. Is a piece of paper worth the ink Or will they back out in a couple of years. Sal you do a great job keeping us up to date on all things shipping.
Question, if the ports were automated would there still be away for someone to hold the entire country hostage if they didn't like what was going on
I am Not an ILA member. I retired at the end of 2022 after turning 70 just shy of 50 years as a Surveyor and Adjuster. My home port is Baltimore but I worked at ports along the USEC on assignment in Boston, NY/NJ, Philly, Wilmington DE down to Portsmouth VA. Baltimore has a Container port at Seagirt not as large as others and some go to Dundalk and Locust Point. Baltimore's activity is more with Bulk and RoRo, that is New Cars and Heavy Equipment. I don't think Automation is as big an issue here as some other ports.
@@1wwtom Automation isn’t an issue at any of the ports, and should’ve happened decades ago.
I understand. If a large hospital or hotel employed 100 people washing/drying/folding its linen using washboards and other manual activities, the union would fight the purchase of industrial machines that washed/dried/folded that requires 10 people to operate and would result in the hospital or hotel getting rid of 90 people.
And then claim that, actually, having 100 people do the work with less efficiency is better, because the people pay taxes.
Because of course, that’s the only job they can do.
No not everyone would want this job that could possibly kill you and you’re never home with your family. When he said he would cripple he meant the shipping industry not the American people. I love how people are quick to judge and be negative when everybody from this hurricane is suffering because FEMA isn’t helping but the ILA they donated $100,000
No...he clearly stated that he will crush the US ecomony...even spelled out each sector that would die...arrest this idiot.
@@Pm678-b1b Oh man sure sounds like we could make it less dangerous if you had machines do it instead
@@deProfundisAdAstra they’re not perfect either
@@Pm678-b1b No, but the worst case scenario with machines is that they break, not that they die. There’s no reason human beings should be risking themselves doing this work in the first place.
@@deProfundisAdAstra There’s plenty of jobs out there that are dangerous and they pay well because of it but then there’s jobs out there that aren’t as dangerous but anything could happen.
How do US ports compare to other ports in the world?
What percentage of the supply of shipping containers does the US have in it ?
Thanks for the videos!
"see you then baby!"
That was a nice closing by the anchor...
Contract extensions only need to be agreed upon by the negotiating team, not the full union membership
isnt january 15th the day that a ton of unions are trying to get their contracts expire on that day
Thank you Sal. I've come to rely on you to cut through the hype for the facts. By the way, nice suit jacket.
Looking spiffy there, Mr. Mercogliano. 😀
with all the automation technology already out there is a little over three months enough time to get the automation equipment staged and ready to go?
The party is over until January thanks Sal
The abrupt ending of the strike was a clear sign of government intervention. We were hit with the Taft-Hartley act just not in a way that would disgrace the ILA. On the ground momentum was on the side and building for the union. So the announcement went out the strike was over however, pay doesn’t increase nor are the negotiations over until 1-15-25. Which is a 90 day cool off period “Taft-Hartly”. This time gets past the election and the holiday season and all of the leverage ILA had. Im disappointed in this ending but also understand they never found Hoffa.
Sal, I read a report, citing Port Commission, that there are nearly 25k union members are paid but don't work. Is this true?
The Waterfront Commission report has been cited as being severly flawed in its analysis
@@wgowshipping found flaws by whom?
Thank you Mayor Pete.
Automation does not go on strike and doesn't demand higher wages, works in all kinds of weather, does not take sick days, does not insist on a fat pension and in general is not a pain to work with as a longshoreman can be. The union may have won this one but in reality is digging its own grave a bit faster by outrageous demands.
Automation also doesn't pay taxes, buy cars, buy homes, consume goods that put neighbors to work. Ya know, the basic things that contribute to an economy...
@@cestmoi1262 it does break. Frequently. Ask any IT guy how computers always work.
We work in all weather, we only stop when conditions don't allow the cranes to operate, like high winds.
@@kevincousino2276Nowhere near as frequently as people do, and it’s orders of magnitude more productive.
@@christopherludlow3106Yes, just like how cars don’t pay taxes, or dish washers, or cellphones, airplanes, lawnmowers, LED bulbs, toaster ovens, or air conditioners. Every one of those things had an equivalent person performing some amount of labor to do the same job worse, and every single one of them has improved our lives. You are not owed a job, nor do you deserve special protection from the automation everyone else in the economy faces just because you’re part of a union.
really interested to see how the working group hammers out the automation and retirement issue. In many ways, wages was probably easier.
sal didn't explain enough that shipping companies are forced to buy new ships because of international pollution control regulations . it's either that or install scrubber systems which are also expensive and may get banned later anyway. the scrubbers scrub out the black soot but put it into the water . and they do nothing for Co2 . improved efficiency reduces Co2 which means bigger ships . more containers reduces fuel consumed per container.and as he said they were barely making money before covid. in 2019 a container from china to ny was 2800 now it's over 10,000
Of course he didn’t, because he consistently defends the unions whose jobs should’ve been automated away 30 years ago.
@@deProfundisAdAstraWhat do you do for a living?
Excellent
It's true. I went to Google, put in "Union Boss" and clicked images and the first EIGHT images are Harold Daggett!
Hey, nice job Sir.
Did they actually give you or loan you one of those remote camera machines????? You obviously weren't on your laptop.....
Great news!
Just kicked the can down the road to 1/15/25; reset and “Dang-nab-it” The Gold Chain “…I will cripple you…” again in January.
that won't happen because they already got a huge raise and automation means many things. start by automating paperwork so truckers can get loaded quicker instead of waiting around. much time is lost in waiting from arrival to when someone knows to get their container . that needs to be computerized like any fast food place or amazon or anywhere they do volume.
@@ronblack7870
No it doesn’t. The computers screw up all the time
Went back k to work to keep America moving.
Things were already close. Just a matter of putting the correct wording so the companies can’t circumvent the contract again
Completely depends on the administration. If Trump wins Daggett won't stick around. With that type of tone, the DJT administration would absolutely gut them.
@@otm646did you know that Trump and daggett are actually friends 😂and Trump did back us. We even have our fund raisers at his golf course
Not surprised it only lasted 3 days. Nothing ever happens.
I guess someone in the administration made a phone call.. and if they read the tea leaves correctly they were going to lose in the long term. There's too many people needing jobs and those are good jobs.
They probably felt that waiting til after the election, would be a better way.
If both sides don't get everything they want, the deal is probably fair as can be expected.
Thank you! Just like buying a car!
Now there is time to get the automation started!
Top notch!
"Oh..."(that goes counter to the narrative we were trying to spin)
Alan Villiers was disgusted with the Australian unions for their work practice while loading a ship in Sth Africa, taking a tea break or lunch break while loading and thus stopping all workers in the port.
A strike just pisses off the people you need support from because we all need to eat.
What do I do with all this TP?
I wonder if this development has anything to do with FL Governor deSantis ordering the National Guard to move containers in FL ports.
That makes sense to people in Florida!!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Ain't it great that 45,000 people can hold 350 million hostage?
Imagine what the US Military going on strike would do!!!
Blame US industries for moving jobs and production out of the country for your reliance on cheap bullshit from overseas not the guys who unload said cheap bullshit from the ships
The ILA made the perfect argument for automation. Machines don’t go on strike. Machines don’t demand exorbitant wages and special working arrangements. Machines just keep working. Provided that they don’t break down. Humans are far more unreliable than machines.
Those machines don’t pay taxes or buy cars and houses. They contribute 0 back to city’s or states. So whenever your little burg needs revenue your taxes will be going up.
And don't need a break after being at work for 2 hours either...
@@michaelchadwick3497 They do anyway.
They received a 66% raise
How will they survive ??
This is extortion, pure and simple
Don't blame prices on wages. The extraction of profit does far more to prices than wages do, and the incentives producing this result should be obvious to any adult.
With holidays coming up, the union should have took their best offer. If everything gets pushed back to next year, their bargaining chips get smaller because not only is there less urgency to ship because the holiday season passed, but we'll have a new president (regardless of who it is). And its hard to put a finger of what either president will do. And then you have Israel and Ukraine potentially causing even more slowdown of products moving in and out.
God Bless America. Big ty to Dept of Commerce 🤪
Think I'll buy up a boat load of TP on my home today in celebration of this agreement and expectation of a whole lotta of ship going on 😂
For perspective dock workers in Australia clear 6 figures
The workers and the union will price themselves out of jobs.
The automation will be in place before you know it
@@latheman2525doesn't work like that 🤡
Did the interviewer sign off with, "Hopefully see you soon baby."?
Well....that was much shorter than I thought it would be. Looks like the union was probably losing media battle, to me
@deProfundisAdAstra yeah its the American workers fault not the foreign shipping companies dirty Americans😂😂😂😂
Not sure about you, but I've never received a 10% wage increase in back to back years, let alone for over half a decade. I'd say they did pretty well, especially if they can keep most of their members employed.
@@andrewfidel2220 i worked offshore on crewboats and in 3 years i went from 100 a day to 300 a day. Longshoreman in 18 years they got a 14 dollar raise but the foreign shipping companies gave them selves billion dollar bonuses somethings not right here they just own the boats and container while the American workers ain't getting it im for American workers times are hard there president said he would cripple the shipping companies be American people took it the wrong way we need to stand together
The problem with International Shipping is that too many entities " wet their beak " at every opportunity during the movement of goods . Everything in the industry is a convoluted hodge podge of wet spaghetti among numerous regulations, insurance, ownerships and labor .
A Salvador Dali painting makes more sense than what we have now .
The guy with a million dollar salary with a 7,000sqft house, wearing a gold chain with a $40,000 Rolex watch in his 75ft yacht is lecturing about how “I’m going to cripple this Country” has some serious issues when he’s talking about how he relates to the everyday worker.
Keep crying about it. This is history in the making. The Maritime Alliance group folded like a napkin because they have more than enough resources to pay their workers properly.
He’s been a longshoreman since the last strike. I’d love to be making that much money after doing the same thing for 50 years. FYI The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross’ Hurricane Helene Relief fund on Wednesday.
@@Pm678-b1b It was PR. They likely had people monitoring social media and saw how the way it would affect the hurricane relief and how unpopular their mob boss' statements about crippling the country were. One hundred grand wouldn't have done squat if supplies couldn't get in.
The entire union across the US is run by the Mob. We all know it, yet they act like they are keeping a secret. It's like 60 minutes with their "special report" 6 years late.
@@Pm678-b1b no one is impressed
Sounded like bro was about to ask Sal out at the end.
Jacket over the Hawaiian shirt…classy Sal!
Profits should be invested back into all employees union and nonunion, equipment, and investors.
Its not iver yet
I love his world globe made out of Legos where can I get the kit??
You coming to Homecoming this year Sal?
They gave away their leverage. Now automation applications will ramp up so they can really replace them all. This was a bad deal for them.
Sounds like Taft Hartley light.
We had runs on stores by panic sheep already in MN
well that was a rather short lived strike. thankfully.
From LatinAmerica here, let me give you a preview If they agreed in 65 of increase in 4 years... be prepared to see a more than 15 % of inflation a year,.... this is how we got to hyperinflation
The shippers have already increased the costs to the public. That's why the union went on strike. They were making around 25% less due to inflation, while the shippers were reporting %800 increase in profits in some cases.
Interestingly, ZIM was paying out so much in dividends to their shareholders, it almost made them go under when prices went back down to ~25% above pre covid levels.
Thank you Longshoremen, we appreciate you!
Now go away and let reliable robots do your simple job.
@@wlonsdale1 enjoying that boot?
Yeah cuz Desantis was using Guard to fix it.
People in Florida actually believe that!!!🤣😂🤣😂😂
@@jabreck1934 Does it bother you he was going to help hurricane victims get things they need? If you’re not in FL why do you care enough to comment?
🤔They need money to replace their fleet, but they're spending money on automation.
Automation is fine. Just make sure all the money saved goes to increased wages and more time off for workers. Make sure shareholders and management get nothing.
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Someone hasn’t been paying attention
Automation will eventually backfire when the jobless rate gets to 30%. Best to be some of the first to automate and enjoy profits before society unravels
@@briansimon8969 No. We automate as much as we can, then give the money to people who would have been employed doing those jobs. Stop the money from going to shareholders. Redirect it to the proletariat.
@@briansimon8969 We’ve been automating jobs for 200 years and the only thing that’s happened over that period of time is the greatest increase in personal wealth and the greatest decrease in income inequality in the 5000 year written history of mankind.
That co in New Jersey is a real expensive place
Everyone went out and hoarded all the TP and paper towels in our area.
Nothing like a whole week of additional stress this caused to the country.
STOP THAT DAMN AUTOMATION!! PEOPLE AND FAMILIES NEED TO LIVE!
The ILA wants to keep making Buggy Whips.
They need to make the contract expire IN MARCH, so it cannot be leveraged for political reasons.
Hey Opal 👋
They don't have a contract right now do they?❤
Hourly wage makes good sense, that was the easy part. What about the royalty issue?Maybe I’m wrong, but that appears to be a goods tax on consumers for the benefit of ILA members. They did not invent, develop, invest in, or produce the goods. Their job is to unload them. The royalty issue has potential to increase cost of goods a LOT. Who else may want the same sweet deal?Everybody……
Automation is the future. Even China that has massive amounts of cheap labor has automated terminals. This is like horse and buggy drivers trying to stop the evolution to trucks.
4:20 "doesn't really save them money" "it replaces labor, so if the ILA can't provide labor..." uhh HELLO?
What does that last sentence? Say all current job actions will cease what does that mean? And all work covered by the Master contract will resume what does that mean?
Toilet paper was completely out when I went to Sam’s club day before yesterday
ILA ALL THE WAYY..
Wasn't too long ago when containers were taken as a threat. Let's open some more ports and build more American cargo ships. Let the robots do the dirty work under human supervision and control.
Kick the can? Push it to the new administration. Blame anyone else
There were runs on toilet paper in the stores in my city today. So, yes it already began. It is fresh and people's minds how quickly we ran out of certain things when covid hit our Nation.
The American public won’t support ILA’s zero automation stance.