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Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation
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They aren't, and haven't even implied they will. In fact, the Biden Admin has clearly communicated they stand on the side of the workers.
Also, the longshoreman strike is over, per lots of media reports since you wrote this screed two hours ago.
I don't trust any governments or politicians; we must always be critical of those with power and influence.
Biden was forced to cave to their demands due to the backlash on breaking the railroad strike and this being an election year.
The working class must continue to unite against the owner class; a general strike would help force the government and the corporations to listen to working class struggles instead of the same old crumbs we reicve from the duopoly; many grassroots movements have arisen for this occasion!
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ― Frederick Douglass
Dockworkers strike suspended, tentative agreement includes 62% pay raise over 6 years [Max Zahn, Meredith Deliso, and Soo Youn | October 3, 2024 | abcnews.go.com] https://abcnews.go.com/US/dockworkers-strike-suspended-sources/story?id=114445386
Biden literally did not cave to anything. This has nothing to do with Biden. The port owners and operators are the ones the workers were striking against lmao
No one is reading your paragraphs and paragraphs of text, fyi. After the first two sentences we stop.
I disagree; I remember the rail road strikes, and I think the reason why they caved is due to being an election year; crushing another strike would end their projections for 2024.
They interfered previously, so no need to take politicians at their word when we know that they lie all the time, Democrats or Republicans.
All is well; some do not like to read, and that is okay.
They are quotes from an article updating us on the strike, which you mentioned... Thank you for mentioning their was an update!
There are so many differences between this strike and the railroad strike you seem blissfully ignorant about. E g., a railroad strike would've halted all domestic and international trade within the US at the height of this last inflationary period, immediately having a negative impact on literally every American's life, whereas this dockworkers' strike only affected overseas imports/exports, leaving all domestic and North American trade intact and not immediately disrupting literally every American's life.
Either way, the Biden Admin kept pressure on railroad owners for a contract in line with the railroad workers' demands, and they won it.
Well, the government forced the rail road unions to agree to the watered-down negotiations instead of their original demands due to the laws passed.
Instead of siding with the working class and forcing corporations to meet the Uninos demands, they help the corporations and once again betray the working class.
I agree though; in this case, they did nothing to help make it worse or better for the unions, but alleged pressure was added as always.
Again, Harris is not doing as well as before, Muslim support for Dr. Jill Stein and other groups is at an all-time high, and the support Trump is receiving from the working class is increasing, so intervening in a strike would lessen support of the Democrats even more than it already is at.
I don't think we will agree on this, due to my views on the intentional systematic problems our society has:
The duopoly likes to play political theater; both act like they are for the working class, but in reality, policy helps the owner-class much more, while crumbs are offered to the working class to keep us quiet.