Harold Daggett, the ILA boss, pledged to “cripple” the United States with the dockworker’s strike. According to Daily Caller, he owns a 76-foot yacht, a Bentley, and gets paid over $900,000. He was acquitted on RICO charges after the main witness against him, mobster Lawrence Ricci, was found decomposing in a car trunk in New Jersey.
This dockworkers’ strike is the first since 1977. It threatens the US economy and the ambitions of incompetent Kamala Harris. This administration said it would do nothing. As the economy flails, Biden and Harris will still do nothing.
The Telegraph on Daggett:
The union leader has twice won cases against the US Justice Department over alleged Mafia ties.
Now he has laid down the gauntlet to Joe Biden, threatening to “cripple” the US economy with strike action, kicking off on Tuesday, that could halt container traffic from Maine to Texas, costing billions of dollars every day.
The US East and Gulf Coast port workers walked out at 12:01 AM ET on Tuesday following a dispute over automation and pay.
Members of the New Jersey-based International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union, representing 47,000 port workers, had said they would down tools if an agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance employer group could not be reached.
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He has railed against robots taking jobs away from dock workers, specifically automated cranes, and technology used to check trucks in and out of ports.
“Someone has to get into Congress and say, ‘Whoa, timeout, this world is going too fast for us, machines got to stop,” he said.
“Who’s going to support [workers’] families? Machines? Machines don’t have families.”
In separate talks with the United States Maritime Alliance, he said: “We will never allow automation to come into our union and try to put us out of work as long as I’m alive.”
Mr Daggett has labelled the wage increases offered by the Maritime Alliance “insulting”.
Under the current contract, which expired on Monday, longshoremen earn up to $39 an hour, but the ILA is pushing for that to rise to $69 an hour over the next six years.
The average hourly wage in the US is $28.34, according to an analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Labour Statistics by Forbes. The average annual salary is $59,428.
Including overtime, longshoremen can earn more than $200,000, but the dock workers say they have to put in long working weeks to make that much money.
This one allegedly Mafia-tied man can seriously damage our economy. He’s not going to stop automation his way. It will encourage more of it to get rid of him.
Just another one Trump will have to deal with when he wins. I feel for the dock workers because there is no way they can come out on top. Someone is getting laid off.
They’d never pull this crap with Trump. Donald had to deal with guys like this every every time he built Manhattan.
Get This. The Biden administration wants to replace all of the United States’ Chinese harbor equipment with Japanese models within five years. With Japanese models.? Because of spyware the Chinese have installed on the crane’s.
Like the US is incapable of manufacturing their own cranes?. Talk about stupidity. They’ve outsourced their brains. https://incyber.org/en/article/are-zpmcs-chinese-dock-cranes-spying-on-the-united-states/
In other words they plan on replacing the workers with robotics.
To the tune of twenty billion dollars. Why is US government paying for it? – For #1, and #2 If they were worried about spyware that they know the whereabouts of, they could simply just remove it and save the money. They have ulterior motives is why. Replacing the workers with robotics.
I see that the site this article is from france, and they’re leftists freaks. I’m the original poster, just was browsing their site. They’re pro digital brainwashing and pro censorship wackos. They call that cyber security?. NOT.
Joe says he’s aware of the strike and that he will personally call Iran to stop it.
Like I said on an earlier story, I’m glad this is happening on Biden/Harris’s watch. Also the war in Israel. What national union doesn’t have mob ties? The dock workers in California and on the west coast get paid more because of the higher cost of living. This creep is living large knowing that eventually his peoples jobs will be taken over by machines and foreign workers at a lower cost. The great replacement of American workers.
Bingo
He’s a union thug who could use a good attitude adjustment.
Only a matter of time, but one’s coming.
Some his mob pals should off this loon.
Once again it is the corrupt unions, and even more corrupted union leadership that are to blame. There’s no way that guy should be in a union leadership position making that kind of money. He’s being paid off to manipulate everyone coming and going is why he’s making that kind of money.
It appears he’s trying to accomplish the exact off opposite of what he says he’s trying to accomplish. Force the workers out of work and replace them with robots. And this administration is most likely in on it. Just like mandating the electric car fiasco.
Guys like this is why the Teamsters ran out of money back in the late 70’s/early 80’s.
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