US port workers and operators reach deal to end East Coast strike immediately | Tentative deal includes a 62% wage hike over six years
That was fast, good for them!
One wonders how long greedy corporations will continue to use "the dockworker's strike, don't you know" as a lame excuse to jack up retail prices now. Four months? Six?
Well that shows how much profits weren't going into worker pockets.
And this is likely still a major win for the owners
One October surprise done ✔️
If health care had internal solidarity, to do this type of thing, there probably wouldn’t be a shortage of workers willing to do direct patient care.
Good for these guys. The reality is that when you stay with a job you rarely get that pay rise commensurate with skill as the years creep forward such that the newer generation can sometimes make more than you year one, after you’ve worked 10yrs. This is why unions are key. They prevent that behind the scenes BS from occurring. And push cost of living increases on your behalf. The percentage sounds like a lot but when you break it down it’s simply logical increase.
Yes, health workers should be unionized. But if we want more doctors, first we need more residency positions. The Boomer doctors retired before the Boomers stopped needing health care. We need to be training a lot more doctors.
In the US anyway it’s pretty funny because nobody can afford to be a doctor except for people from already extremely privileged backgrounds… who tend to be pricks anyway.
So we don’t have enough doctors, the ones we do have have no perspective on how an average person actually lives, and some very weird views about wealth as it relates to healthcare.
Wew, 10% per year? That's actually pretty solid, if I'm not missing anything. And having a good deal that lasts THIS long actually flips the normal shitty status quo of multi-year contracts on its' head, now they won't need to go to the effort of big strikes for a good few years while they've got these fair wage increases locked in.
To be pedantic, it’s 100%–(162%)^(1/6)=8.4% per year. Still a great number, until you consider that their wages have been pretty stagnant for years.
Edit:
That may sound like an extreme demand, but workers would point out that wages for veteran dockworkers have increased 11% since the start of the last six-year contract, while inflation has jumped 24% in the same period.
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2024/09/29/get-ready-for-more-supply-chain-chaos
I'd also like to compare that to the average American. I suspect most people have done even worse than 11% in the last six years, which is why they don't support these things. It's not 'fair' they won't get a similar treatment. It's sad how many don't want others to succeed because they are in a bad place.
given expected 2% target inflation of prices YOY, that's about 8.3%/yr raise good for them.
If I understand things, a good chunk of the increase is to offset the inflation that has happened since the last negotiation.
Congrats fellow 99%ers! Rising tides
I'm not sure how I feel about the no automation clause.
Unless the govt wants to start UBI or otherwise guarantee a job with livable wages I feel fine about it.
Me neither but honestly widespread automation should come with a UBI system. Otherwise people will starve.
It's still under discussion, right? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-port-strike-throws-spotlight-big-union-foe-automation-2024-10-04/
Does that have any impact on you or are you just worried about profits?
Sounds like all of those memes and tweets going around saying the head of the union was in league with Trump were nonsense. They would drag this out if it were just about the election. Boiling a contract negotiation down to presidential politics was insulting to that man and to union members everywhere, but don't expect an apology.
syndicalism fucking WORKS, people.
its no coincidence it makes for the very basis of practical leftism.
also no coincidence they try so hard to stop it asap.
LOL, (accidentally) called it!
