The International Longshoremen’s Association’s 6-year contract with the East Coast and Gulf Coast ports will expire on Sept. 30 at midnight unless there’s an agreement before that deadline.
Expect anti Union article titles like this too. This article content is ok and while it is alarming how we rely on bananas so much and cannot grow them domestically, I think consumers should expect to focus their frustrations on the company, not on striking workers. One set the conditions for the need for a strike, the other is just trying to get a fair slice of the banana. I certainly hope that Biden doesn’t step in and use the cooling off period, which is pro-management.
After the Railworkers strike, I’ve read that the Biden administration actually got the owners to make concessions to the railworkers, though it didn’t seem to receive any press at the time, other than when railworkers had to go back to work.
Yeah that is true, but it was significantly less than the rail workers were asking for. Still a fucking sham to obviate the union’s biggest pressure point for management.
Plus you had tons of media on the side of the company and consumers, instead of the workers. There is never enough media centering the workers, their material concerns and demands, and what they are sacrificing.
Expect anti Union article titles like this too. This article content is ok and while it is alarming how we rely on bananas so much and cannot grow them domestically, I think consumers should expect to focus their frustrations on the company, not on striking workers. One set the conditions for the need for a strike, the other is just trying to get a fair slice of the banana. I certainly hope that Biden doesn’t step in and use the cooling off period, which is pro-management.
After the Railworkers strike, I’ve read that the Biden administration actually got the owners to make concessions to the railworkers, though it didn’t seem to receive any press at the time, other than when railworkers had to go back to work.
Yeah that is true, but it was significantly less than the rail workers were asking for. Still a fucking sham to obviate the union’s biggest pressure point for management.
Plus you had tons of media on the side of the company and consumers, instead of the workers. There is never enough media centering the workers, their material concerns and demands, and what they are sacrificing.