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Date: October 01, 2024 at 13:20:13
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Workers want higher wages with increased profits |
URL: Workers want higher wages with increased profits |
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apparently the workers are asking for a $5 per hour raise each year over
the 6 year contract moving their pay from $39 per hour currently to $69
per hour by the end of the contract
Workers want higher wages with increased profits
From CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore
Longshoremen strike at midnight at Bayport Terminal on October 1 in
Houston, Texas.
Longshoremen strike at midnight at Bayport Terminal on October 1 in
Houston, Texas.
The USMX, which declined to comment Tuesday, has complained the
union is not negotiating in good faith, saying the two sides haven’t met in
person since June. The USMX said Monday it had increased its offer to
wage increases of more than 50% over the proposed six-year contract.
ILA President Harold Daggett on Wednesday told CNN the union is
seeking a $5-an-hour pay increase each year over six years, with top pay
climbing from $39 an hour to $69. That would equate to a 77% pay hike
over the life of the contract.
Shipping rates soared during and immediately after the pandemic, as
supply chains snarled and demand surged. Industry profits topped $400
billion from 2020 to 2023, which is believed to be more than the industry
had previously made in total since containerization started in 1957,
according to analyst John McCown.
“Since Covid, they’re making billions and billions of dollars,” ILA President
Harold Daggett told CNN. “But they don’t want to share it. They’d rather
see a fully automated terminal right here on the East Coast so they can
make more money.”
The union says it has continued to talk with the USMX, just not in face-to-
face negotiations. Ahead of the strike, it said management knows what it
is demanding in order to get a deal done and that any strike would be
management’s fault, not the union’s. It said its demands are reasonable
given the level of profits in the shipping industry.
Daggett praised the Biden administration’s efforts, in particular Acting
Secretary of Labor Julie Su, whom he called “terrific.” “She’s knocking
down doors. She’s trying to stop this. She’s trying to get us… fair
negotiations,” Daggett said. “It’s the companies that don’t want to sit here
and be fair. So that’s why we’re out here fighting for our livelihood.”
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Date: October 01, 2024 at 15:58:28
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Workers want higher wages with job protection |
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Read your own article.
What are the corporations doing with the
800% profit increase?
Doing what they can to eliminate the workers.
Corporate greed ad infinitum.
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Date: October 02, 2024 at 08:16:30
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Workers want higher wages with job protection |
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It doesn't matter what the article says, mitra, and it
doesn't matter what you say here, either... He comes from
that specialized School of Spin (of which another member
has fully graduated & spun right off this board), the
requirements for which are only that you're able to take a
line of text and spin it completely out of its original
context...
Expecting actual *reading for comprehension of the points
expressed,* or feedback that reflects anything of that
nature, just isn't realistic... But I love that we try
anyway...
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Date: October 01, 2024 at 16:47:06
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: How much do dockworkers make? Here are the striking workers' salaries |
URL: How much do dockworkers make? Here are the striking workers' salaries |
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apparently they turned down a 50% raise and increased benefits prior to
the strike
How much do dockworkers make? Here are the striking workers' salaries.
moneywatch
By Megan Cerullo
Edited By Alain Sherter
Updated on: October 1, 2024 / 5:28 PM EDT / CBS News
Roughly 25,000 striking dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf
Coasts of the U.S. are rallying for higher pay and stronger guardrails
around their jobs being automated out of existence.
Members of the International Longshoremen's Association, or ILA, a union
representing the dockworkers, walked off the job Tuesday for the first
time in nearly 50 years as they push for "the kind of wages we deserve,"
ILA President Harold Daggett said in a social media post on Tuesday.
Those wages, union officials argue, should factor in the torrid inflation
that eroded dockworkers' paychecks under their now lapsed labor
contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, known as USMX, which
represents ports and ocean carriers. As the industry profits, longshore
workers "continue to be crippled by inflation due to USMX's unfair wage
packages," the ILA said in a statement.
How much do longshoremen make?
Only workers at 14 East and Gulf Coast ports are on strike; West Coast
longshoremen are represented by a different union, which negotiated
significant wage increases for its members in 2023. ILA members earn
significantly less than their peers on the other side of the country.
Pay for longshoremen is based on their years of experience. Under the
ILA's former contract with USMX, which expired on Monday, starting pay
for dockworkers was $20 per hour. That rose to $24.75 per hour after two
years on the job and to $31.90 after three years, topping out at $39 for
workers with at least six years of service.
The union is demanding a 77% raise over six years, or the equivalent of a
$5 increase per hour for each year of the contract. Under the union's
proposal, workers would make $44 for the first year of the contract, $49
for the second and up to $69 in its final year.
"I think this work group has a lot of bargaining power," said Harry Katz, a
professor of collective bargaining at Cornell University. "They're essential
workers that can't be replaced, and also the ports are doing well."
What's a typical annual salary?
That top-tier hourly wage of $39 amounts to just over $81,000 annually,
but dockworkers can make significantly more by taking on extra shifts.
For example, according to a 2019-20 annual report from the Waterfront
Commission of New York Harbor, about one-third of local longshoremen
made $200,000 or more a year.
A more typical longshoreman's salary can exceed $100,000, but not
without logging substantial overtime hours. Daggett, the ILA president,
maintains that these higher earners work up to 100 hours a week.
Across the industry, including in nonunion jobs, pay for some dockworkers
can be far more modest at around $53,000 a year, according to job site
Indeed.
Late Monday, USMX said its latest offer would boost dockworkers' wages
by nearly 50%, triple employer contributions to employee retirement
plans and enhance health care coverage, while also preserving existing
safeguards against automation.
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