Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation
Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation
Dockworkers from Maine to Texas have walked out on the job at all East Coast and Gulf Coast ports, launching the first strike of its kind in almost 50 years. The International Longshoremen’s Association represents some 45,000 workers at 36 ports who are demanding higher wages and guarantees that job...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20998907
October 01, 2024
Guest - Peter Goodman
NewYorkTimes global economics correspondent[a surprisingly pro-worker viewpoint from a writer from the NYT -PL]
This is exactly why Unions are a band aid solution, you absolutely need to fight tooth and nail for reasonable conditions and pay from these blood sucking parasites but who the fuck loves sacrificing their health and youth on the alter of capitalism so much they would rail against automation?
Automations great...
If there's a plan in place to support the displaced workers. Right now, they'll just be fired and the owners will keep making more money. Until there's a support system in place for them, I'm with the workers 100% on not automating everything
They’re rightly concerned about losing jobs to automation.
Strikes over now until January