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I recommend reading this article titled "Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say" (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com
by throwawaysea 5y ago
I recommend reading this article titled "Lazy crane operators making $250,000 a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say" (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/lazy-crane-operators-making-250-000-a-year-exacerbating-port-crisis-truckers-say https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/lazy-crane...), for examples for the kind of games port workers are playing.
It's remarkable how brazen the actions of the longshoreman's union can be. There are truckers who are retaliated against if they complain, so they are forced to simply endure "slow work" and abusive practices without any way to help correct the situation. This is of course impacting our supply chain and economy at a crucial time when we need to act quickly and bounce back from the pandemic. Given how broadly-scoped and aggressive state and federal mandates have been, why isn't there a mandate to force labor at ports to work like they are supposed to, just like emergency workers?
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoThey're not Federal workers. How do you plan to force them to do their jobs?
- julienb_sea 5y agoThis is the clear result of an overbearingly powerful entrenched union allowing absurd inefficiency. Tough to imagine a legal recourse. Ideally you allow local ports to outlaw the unions, but that would be a legal nightmare and be extraordinarily difficult to pull off, since the entire port's unionized staff would likely quit.
- merpnderp 5y agoYou could simply allow non-union workers, or allow other unions to bid the job. Just some modicum of competition. But right now it is them or no-one.
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago> simply allow non-union workers I have a hunch that if it was "simple" the port owners would have done that a long time ago.
- josephcsible 5y agoThe government would have to allow that, not the port owners.
- delfinom 5y agoI recommend you read this: https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/ https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forc... How abusive port trucking operations are. To the point I dare say some of the current shitshow could be the lack of immigrant drivers due to covid to bait into driving.