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Lazy crane operators making $250k a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say
- keskival 5y agoThis is a propaganda piece trying to distract people from the real causes, which are about not investing in adequate capacity and not hiring enough people. Encouraging the workers to fight between each others or against poorer people is an age old distraction tactic in a crisis.
- rlpont 5y agoAre the unions still Mafia (literally) owned? That would explain the salaries and deliberate slowness (perhaps someone has to pay to speed things up...). https://nypost.com/2012/03/05/cushy-low-show-jobs-for-mafia-kin-and-friends-pay-400k-a-year/ https://nypost.com/2012/03/05/cushy-low-show-jobs-for-mafia-...
- stooliepidgin 5y agoAnti-union propaganda or actual goldbricking? This story doesn't have enough detail to support the latter. It seems like it just tries to stir-up class warfare. What it underscores is that not everyone makes a livable wage, and it's only been getting worse in the US.
- londons_explore 5y agoSounds like what's really needed is a competing port a few hundred miles down the coast. And that competing port can use all automated cranes so there are very few super highly paid union workers.
- renewiltord 5y agoThe port would never be built. This is because all things violate some rule and that is on purpose. That way we can choose to enforce the rule or permit an exception. Longshoremen and stevedores unions would kill off an automated port in no time. You’d find that it needed more environmental review or something.
- Kim_Bruning 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22SvOhI47Tw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22SvOhI47Tw You might want to have a word with ECT terminal, The Harbour of Rotterdam and I guess the FNV labour union while you're at it? (this is just one terminal at one of the world's largest and busiest ports. A quick google seems to indicate that the workers would be with FNV.) TIL there's actually a newer terminal with even more automation at the same harbour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBewnay3cjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBewnay3cjQ
- londons_explore 5y agoRotterdam has quite a lot of competing ports and any union which reduced the productivity of the port would be shooting itself in the foot.
- Kim_Bruning 5y agoNot sure they think of it in exactly those terms (hurray for the Poldermodel); but I'm sure that's a consideration.
- renewiltord 5y agoI’m sorry, Rotterdam in the Netherlands? I’m not familiar with the politics of that nation. I specifically meant the US since that was the original subject of the post. And even more specifically, California.
- adriancr 5y agoand at the end the real reason. > “They have to hire extra men to work the cranes and don’t want to do it,” Tessier said. “There are a lot of things [terminal operators] could do but don’t do because it costs extra money. Shows how concerned they are about their customers.” The truckers are hit because they are paid by deliveries and delays are causing time with no income or penalties. Capitalism says they should adjust, either negotiate better conditions or accept/go out of business... Funny how unionized crane operators do not have this issue.
- Darmody 5y agoAre ports private or state owned?
- darkmatterrat 5y agoIs it okay for someone to be paid even though they do not perform their duties because they are protected by an organisation which has political power? I would say no.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoDo people intentionally link to Yahoo aggregation versions of stories from 'dodgy' sources? The headline is pretty bad on its own, but combined with Washington Examiner as a source, you know what you're going to get.
- WalterGR 5y agoYes. I call it source laundering.