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 jobs won’t be automated. “This is a time of labor mobilization in this country,” says Peter Goodman, New York Times global economics correspondent, who explains President Biden is caught between union pressure to back the strike and the threat of consumer prices rising while shipping is disrupted. “We’re only weeks away from a presidential election that could very well hinge on economic sentiments and unhappiness over inflation.”
Nixon did this when the Postal Service went on strike in 1970. He brought in 23,000 national guard troops to New York to deliver the mail.
They failed, miserably, because they didn’t know how to do the job. There’s clips of interviews with some of them at the time, I remember one, the soldier was trying to sort the mail and laughing about how he didn’t understand how the regular guy could do in a couple hours what took him almost all day.
Good luck to him, but he’s gonna find out quick that soldiers aren’t longshoremen.
DeCuntis has deployed the Florida National Guard.
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Nixon did this when the Postal Service went on strike in 1970. He brought in 23,000 national guard troops to New York to deliver the mail.
They failed, miserably, because they didn’t know how to do the job. There’s clips of interviews with some of them at the time, I remember one, the soldier was trying to sort the mail and laughing about how he didn’t understand how the regular guy could do in a couple hours what took him almost all day.
Good luck to him, but he’s gonna find out quick that soldiers aren’t longshoremen.