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One wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use "the dockworker's strike, don't you know" as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?
The company I work for was already using it for expected price hikes in February 2025 lol
Supposedly the shipping companies had already jacked up prices per container from $3000 to $30,000 this past month.
You think they will follow a time limit?
That's just the price now.
Oh, for sure the prices will remain inflated forever. I was just gauging the longevity of trying to use this as the stated excuse.
Right? I was worried it"d drag on...
"What am going to do with this pallet of toilet paper I panic bought?!?" - American idiots
The best part…we don’t import our toilet paper. People are dumb…
Peope cleared out the local grocery store of eggs on Tuesday despite our eggs being overwhelming laid domestically. The idiotic cherry on top was that the giant packs of 60 eggs were untouched. So everyone was buying a bunch of one dozen egg packs, and just leaving the bulk stuff. So that's how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs
So that’s how I, a single guy who lives alone, ended up with 60 eggs
If the lore is accurate, after eating all of those you should be roughly as big as a barge.
Or dead from the cholesterol. One of the two.
He could make a cake, or a really big omelet.
Been wilding out baking pumpkin bread, pumpkin brittle, pumpkin cheesecake, and buckeye cookies, but that's only been 12 eggs, including my meals
Me too. Good won for a change!
Well that shows how much profits weren't going into worker pockets.
And this is likely still a major win for the owners
One October surprise done ✔️
If health care had internal solidarity, to do this type of thing, there probably wouldn’t be a shortage of workers willing to do direct patient care.
Good for these guys. The reality is that when you stay with a job you rarely get that pay rise commensurate with skill as the years creep forward such that the newer generation can sometimes make more than you year one, after you’ve worked 10yrs. This is why unions are key. They prevent that behind the scenes BS from occurring. And push cost of living increases on your behalf. The percentage sounds like a lot but when you break it down it’s simply logical increase.
Yes, health workers should be unionized. But if we want more doctors, first we need more residency positions. The Boomer doctors retired before the Boomers stopped needing health care. We need to be training a lot more doctors.
In the US anyway it’s pretty funny because nobody can afford to be a doctor except for people from already extremely privileged backgrounds… who tend to be pricks anyway.
So we don’t have enough doctors, the ones we do have have no perspective on how an average person actually lives, and some very weird views about wealth as it relates to healthcare.
Wew, 10% per year? That's actually pretty solid, if I'm not missing anything. And having a good deal that lasts THIS long actually flips the normal shitty status quo of multi-year contracts on its' head, now they won't need to go to the effort of big strikes for a good few years while they've got these fair wage increases locked in.
To be pedantic, it’s 100%–(162%)^(1/6)=8.4% per year. Still a great number, until you consider that their wages have been pretty stagnant for years.
Edit:
That may sound like an extreme demand, but workers would point out that wages for veteran dockworkers have increased 11% since the start of the last six-year contract, while inflation has jumped 24% in the same period.
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/09/29/get-ready-for-more-supply-chain-chaos
I'd also like to compare that to the average American. I suspect most people have done even worse than 11% in the last six years, which is why they don't support these things. It's not 'fair' they won't get a similar treatment. It's sad how many don't want others to succeed because they are in a bad place.
People are so short-sighted, organized labor succeeding helps all labor get more, even if they are not represented. I was in CWA for years but even after I left the union their bargaining successes typically translated into wage increases for me. So even from a purely self-interested position all workers should support union actions and celebrate union successes.
Paycheck goes up 50 bucks a month, health insurance goes up 50 bucks a month. "They got their raises."
#UNION STRONG!
Now come on Crew, beat the Mets to keep the good vibe rollin!
The vibes stopped rollin’ for you.
As is tradition.
I’m a Mets fan.
This tension is gonna kill me! :)
Plenty of October left for them to Mets it up
given expected 2% target inflation of prices YOY, that's about 8.3%/yr raise good for them.
If I understand things, a good chunk of the increase is to offset the inflation that has happened since the last negotiation.
Congrats fellow 99%ers! Rising tides
I'm not sure how I feel about the no automation clause.
Unless the govt wants to start UBI or otherwise guarantee a job with livable wages I feel fine about it.
Me neither but honestly widespread automation should come with a UBI system. Otherwise people will starve.
It's still under discussion, right? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-port-strike-throws-spotlight-big-union-foe-automation-2024-10-04/
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syndicalism fucking WORKS, people.
its no coincidence it makes for the very basis of practical leftism.
also no coincidence they try so hard to stop it asap.
Sounds like all of those memes and tweets going around saying the head of the union was in league with Trump were nonsense. They would drag this out if it were just about the election. Boiling a contract negotiation down to presidential politics was insulting to that man and to union members everywhere, but don't expect an apology.
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