Yay for them for keeping at it and validating the usefulness of collective bargaining and finding a way to push the deadline to after the election. Some of the conservative xitters were basically mid xit on how the strike was all the Biden Harris administration's fault when the news broke and they had to awkward swallow. Ever notice how a few months ago it was the Biden administration and now all of a sudden it's the Biden Harris one?
To be fair to conservative media, MTG is probably just confusing a strike with Super Bowl... and of course Daggett does seem to be in cahoots with 45, who has been a protected informant over the years on court cases for having cahooted with mobsters in NY real estate, so in cahoots with the mob isn't necessarily a total stretch...
The National Teamsters President decided that the national org wasn’t going to endorse either candidate. Then there was a big wave of local/state Teamster unions all endorsing Kamala Harris.
Have any of the local/state Teamster unions endorsed Trump? Or is all either a Harris endorsement or no endorsement?
"After just three days, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced last night that they will be temporarily suspending their strike"
The first October Surprise? The longshoremen suspending the strike works in favor of VP Harris: none of the financial pain the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus was counting on to push his economic disaster scenario, no shortages to piss off consumers just before the election, the "Harris/Biden" administration showed its support for the union by backing the strikers....
"I want to thank the union workers, the carriers, and the port operators for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding. Collective bargaining works, and it is critical to building a stronger economy from the middle out and the bottom up."
* Those efforts made will deny the Fulvous Flatulence of a cudgel he desperately needs to beat on the heads of the Dems, and especially VP Harris who he would have blamed for the financial carnage caused by a strike -- as if she could have done anything more than the administration has already done. IMO, in his fevered wet dreams the union actions would cease as soon as he was reelected [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers] out of fear of what he might do to them, and then he can claim *he* solved the whole situation -- even before his inauguration.
Pres Biden (and by extension Harris) has shown his support of blue collar workers by espousing the strength of collective bargaining to raise the workers' quality of life. (Biden has always been on the side of the working stiffs.)
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"I applaud the longshoremen who do such important work and deserve to be valued for it, and the companies for the critical role they play in our supply chain and for recognizing the invaluable contributions of their workers."
Is there anyone out there that believes that the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster or any of his proxies would express similar attitudes? Hell no, he would have preferred to bring in today's iteration of "The Pinkertons" to bust heads and break up the union. Unions are anathema to productivity; how dare they make demands of their employers who out of the goodness of their hearts employ and pay the workers.
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"Indeed, despite the fact that the ILA has historically been a more conservative union (and far less well-paid) than its counterpart on the West Coast, the ILWU, and despite the fact that the union president is a Trumper, conservative media spent much of this week tearing them both apart — fear-mongering about the strike while accusing ILA President Harold Daggett of being in cahoots with the mob."
Right wingnut talking heads would, of course, condemn the union's strike and the union president for not stopping it. They are shouting falsities and misinformation into the echo chamber to rile up the MAGAdroid knuckle draggers and cultists against unions (I wonder how many of the cultists decrying the union action are also union members?) and smearing -- as usual -- anyone and everyone responsible for the work stoppage:
"Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoremen's Association ..., was once cleared of federal racketeering charges in connection with alleged mafia ties to the same union.
...
The Justice Department failed to convict – but the case had deadly results. One of the co-defendants, a reputed Genovese family captain named Larry Ricci, disappeared mid-trial and was later found dead in the trunk of a car" [from the link to Fox News]
Mr Daggett was cleared but that doesn't stop the Right wingnuts from trying to tie Daggett to the Genovese family.
And Fox does one other thing here that is an old trick to use on low-info voters and others who consider thinking too strenuous an exercise: they conflate causation with correlation. It's easy to correlate Ricci's murder with Daggett's trial (the disappearance did occur mid-trial), but there was never any proof that the trial was the cause of the hit.
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"This is a victory for dockworkers, but also for workers everywhere, because it has demonstrated the power of a strike and the power of collective bargaining to get workers their fair share."
In most cases this is true, but don't count out the greed of some unions. Early in my career I worked for a small manufacturer of construction products. In the years I was there several unions tried to organize the workers but they all failed to garner enough votes to unionize (IMO it goes back to my employer was fair and honest with the employees, and paid a living wage). The greed part comes into play by which unions were onsite; one was the Teamsters, another the Meatpackers, and I can't recall the others. What I found both interesting and confusing was that not a one of the unions trying to organize the plant had any connection to the building trades.
This old hippy buys in bulk, including TP (Who Gives a Crap recycled). The only thing I struggled to find (besides PPE) during the pandemic was more canning jars - we had a big tomato haul that year. If you can afford it, it's really the way to go.
I can tell you why the Walmart in Aberdeen, NC is out of toilet paper. My fellow NC citizens bought it all and sent it to Western NC. Along with all the bottled water and everything else we can think of to give.
Yep, same here in Charlotte. I've been buying up bar oil and 2-stroke oil for my friends to take up there and distribute on their weekend chainsaw crew trips.
In desperation I bought Chinese-made TP during the pandemic, and it was sad compared to the American stuff. Next time there’s a shortage I’ll just clean out the booze aisle so I won’t care. And fuck MTG.
Literally the FIRST comment I read about this was, "I hope this doesn't make prices go up" -- just as if companies hadn't openly admitted that they've been price gouging since the pandemic, or if prices wouldn't have gone up if there was a shortage of goods.
Fox news ran wild with the toilet paper shortage fear mongering- saw it while I was at the gym yesterday- then saw zero toilet paper in the grocery store- so congrats to all those who panic bought two ply
Call me cynical, but my take is: The shippers must not think Trump's going to win. If they did, they would have held out, showered Trump with money, and then have the strikers' heads broken (whether metaphorically or literally) after he won.
There absolutely was a run on toilet paper here, and Walmart was trying to quadruple the price when we placed it in our cart online. Absolute morons. Maybe stock up on things we actually bring into our docks, you idiots. The paper companies will just make more shitter tissue and you'll be stuck with a two year supply of TP. Also, we love our bidet. Just saying.
Yay for them for keeping at it and validating the usefulness of collective bargaining and finding a way to push the deadline to after the election. Some of the conservative xitters were basically mid xit on how the strike was all the Biden Harris administration's fault when the news broke and they had to awkward swallow. Ever notice how a few months ago it was the Biden administration and now all of a sudden it's the Biden Harris one?
To be fair to conservative media, MTG is probably just confusing a strike with Super Bowl... and of course Daggett does seem to be in cahoots with 45, who has been a protected informant over the years on court cases for having cahooted with mobsters in NY real estate, so in cahoots with the mob isn't necessarily a total stretch...
Something NC teachers aren't legally permitted to do, so I'm retiring early.
Ta, Robyn. When we fight, we WIN. Solidarity forever.
And most TP is produced domestically.
ILA and ILWU?
Which ones are the splitters?
Question for anyone who knows:
The National Teamsters President decided that the national org wasn’t going to endorse either candidate. Then there was a big wave of local/state Teamster unions all endorsing Kamala Harris.
Have any of the local/state Teamster unions endorsed Trump? Or is all either a Harris endorsement or no endorsement?
"After just three days, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced last night that they will be temporarily suspending their strike"
The first October Surprise? The longshoremen suspending the strike works in favor of VP Harris: none of the financial pain the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus was counting on to push his economic disaster scenario, no shortages to piss off consumers just before the election, the "Harris/Biden" administration showed its support for the union by backing the strikers....
"I want to thank the union workers, the carriers, and the port operators for acting patriotically to reopen our ports and ensure the availability of critical supplies for Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuilding. Collective bargaining works, and it is critical to building a stronger economy from the middle out and the bottom up."
* Those efforts made will deny the Fulvous Flatulence of a cudgel he desperately needs to beat on the heads of the Dems, and especially VP Harris who he would have blamed for the financial carnage caused by a strike -- as if she could have done anything more than the administration has already done. IMO, in his fevered wet dreams the union actions would cease as soon as he was reelected [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers] out of fear of what he might do to them, and then he can claim *he* solved the whole situation -- even before his inauguration.
Pres Biden (and by extension Harris) has shown his support of blue collar workers by espousing the strength of collective bargaining to raise the workers' quality of life. (Biden has always been on the side of the working stiffs.)
-----
"I applaud the longshoremen who do such important work and deserve to be valued for it, and the companies for the critical role they play in our supply chain and for recognizing the invaluable contributions of their workers."
Is there anyone out there that believes that the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster or any of his proxies would express similar attitudes? Hell no, he would have preferred to bring in today's iteration of "The Pinkertons" to bust heads and break up the union. Unions are anathema to productivity; how dare they make demands of their employers who out of the goodness of their hearts employ and pay the workers.
-----
"Indeed, despite the fact that the ILA has historically been a more conservative union (and far less well-paid) than its counterpart on the West Coast, the ILWU, and despite the fact that the union president is a Trumper, conservative media spent much of this week tearing them both apart — fear-mongering about the strike while accusing ILA President Harold Daggett of being in cahoots with the mob."
Right wingnut talking heads would, of course, condemn the union's strike and the union president for not stopping it. They are shouting falsities and misinformation into the echo chamber to rile up the MAGAdroid knuckle draggers and cultists against unions (I wonder how many of the cultists decrying the union action are also union members?) and smearing -- as usual -- anyone and everyone responsible for the work stoppage:
"Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoremen's Association ..., was once cleared of federal racketeering charges in connection with alleged mafia ties to the same union.
...
The Justice Department failed to convict – but the case had deadly results. One of the co-defendants, a reputed Genovese family captain named Larry Ricci, disappeared mid-trial and was later found dead in the trunk of a car" [from the link to Fox News]
Mr Daggett was cleared but that doesn't stop the Right wingnuts from trying to tie Daggett to the Genovese family.
And Fox does one other thing here that is an old trick to use on low-info voters and others who consider thinking too strenuous an exercise: they conflate causation with correlation. It's easy to correlate Ricci's murder with Daggett's trial (the disappearance did occur mid-trial), but there was never any proof that the trial was the cause of the hit.
-----
"This is a victory for dockworkers, but also for workers everywhere, because it has demonstrated the power of a strike and the power of collective bargaining to get workers their fair share."
In most cases this is true, but don't count out the greed of some unions. Early in my career I worked for a small manufacturer of construction products. In the years I was there several unions tried to organize the workers but they all failed to garner enough votes to unionize (IMO it goes back to my employer was fair and honest with the employees, and paid a living wage). The greed part comes into play by which unions were onsite; one was the Teamsters, another the Meatpackers, and I can't recall the others. What I found both interesting and confusing was that not a one of the unions trying to organize the plant had any connection to the building trades.
fnord
This old hippy buys in bulk, including TP (Who Gives a Crap recycled). The only thing I struggled to find (besides PPE) during the pandemic was more canning jars - we had a big tomato haul that year. If you can afford it, it's really the way to go.
Recycled toilet paper? That doesn't sound at all hygienic.
It's toilet paper made of recycled paper. It's completely hygienic. Of course you knew that, and are just funnin'.
I can tell you why the Walmart in Aberdeen, NC is out of toilet paper. My fellow NC citizens bought it all and sent it to Western NC. Along with all the bottled water and everything else we can think of to give.
Yep, same here in Charlotte. I've been buying up bar oil and 2-stroke oil for my friends to take up there and distribute on their weekend chainsaw crew trips.
Oh hugs for everybody and good on you!
In desperation I bought Chinese-made TP during the pandemic, and it was sad compared to the American stuff. Next time there’s a shortage I’ll just clean out the booze aisle so I won’t care. And fuck MTG.
Literally the FIRST comment I read about this was, "I hope this doesn't make prices go up" -- just as if companies hadn't openly admitted that they've been price gouging since the pandemic, or if prices wouldn't have gone up if there was a shortage of goods.
Goddamn if they're not a hard bunch to please.
The shortages are real. I checked my liquor cabinet yesterday, and there was no vodka.
A True hardship! Will the suffering never end?
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the parents of children??
Terrific News this morning ☕ we like more Good News! Thanks, Robyn Pennacchia, Good Job 👍
Fox news ran wild with the toilet paper shortage fear mongering- saw it while I was at the gym yesterday- then saw zero toilet paper in the grocery store- so congrats to all those who panic bought two ply
Call me cynical, but my take is: The shippers must not think Trump's going to win. If they did, they would have held out, showered Trump with money, and then have the strikers' heads broken (whether metaphorically or literally) after he won.
If they don't think he's going to win, isn't that a good sign?
Hell yeah.
There absolutely was a run on toilet paper here, and Walmart was trying to quadruple the price when we placed it in our cart online. Absolute morons. Maybe stock up on things we actually bring into our docks, you idiots. The paper companies will just make more shitter tissue and you'll be stuck with a two year supply of TP. Also, we love our bidet. Just saying.