Local socialist Clayton Tucker is ALWAYS on the side of “unions” – no matter if they are useless dirtbags like Randi Weingarten and her teacher union thugs or anyone else.
But he is completely silent on this one. Maybe because he knows if he sides with these port worker fuckers, he’ll be even more hated than he is now. So he keeps his yap shut.
I get that there is an eternal struggle between “greedy asshole” owners and “I’m always underpaid” labor and I’m sure there is truth to BOTH sides of that argument – which is why we have negotiations.
Of course, the lazy, overpaid scumbag union guy stereotype exists for a reason. I knew more than a few union electricians back in my Chicago days. They were at the bar most of the working day. Bunch of cunts.
That’s how it will always be. But the head of the longshoreman’s union just bragged how he would “cripple” the nation with this strike. Huge mistake.
Some blue collar guys are holding the rest of the blue collar in this nation hostage, so their union can make a little more money, which they’ll donate to the party who is importing the third world to replace them all. Hilarious!
Also, one of the union sticking points is “no automation” so that not a single job is ever lost to progress. Sorry buddy – the Chinese are eating our lunch and are probably TWICE as efficient as you twats are in getting goods moving through the ports. Take your big raise and accept the fact that the numbers of longshoreman scumbags is going to have to decrease in general as the years pass. Tough shit.
The port union is demanding total ban on the automation at 36 US ports “We do not believe that robotics should take over a human being’s job. Especially a human being that’s historically performed that job.”
By this logic, we would all still be farmers
Automation is coming. Just ask all the bank tellers replaced by ATMs, the elevator operators replaced by buttons, the travel agents destroyed by Travelocity, the stock brokers destroyed by TD Ameritrade, the old mafia bookies put out of business by Draft Kings, the Vegas blackjack dealers replaced by screens and hundreds of other examples.
You don’t get to be the exception and cost every single American billions of dollars because of your prohibition on any automation. Fuck you, man.
Too bad Reagan isn’t around. He’d fire all these dildos and get some new guys in there. Raise their pay, cut 20% of the positions due to automation and move on with life.
You can always go and be a fake rancher like Comrade Clayton….and waste your time writing postcards to morons.
