kscarbel2 Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 I will cripple you. These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down... Everything in the United States comes on a ship. First week, be all over the news every night, boom, boom. Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because cars ain't coming in off the ships, they get laid off. Third week, malls start closing down, they can't get goods from China, they can't sell clothes. Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in. They lose their jobs. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are. Harold Dagget - International Longshoremen's Association's chief negotiator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 His voice reminds me of Jackie Gleason's superb sidekick Art Carney. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post james j neiweem Posted October 1 Popular Post Share Posted October 1 Obviously a short sided loud mouth that is not looking out for the good of the country. Protect the selfish union members and let the country be damned. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted October 1 Author Share Posted October 1 Beat up the garbage truck driver? . https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13911617/baltimore-picketing-port-crisis-workers-clash-truck-drivers.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
67RModel Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 He sounds like a quintessential mobster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Meanwhile the ports on the Delaware River in Bucks County Pa that are not ILA are in full swing running 24 hours......... 1 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA_Dave Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 5 hours ago, kscarbel2 said: I will cripple you. These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the streets, from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock down... Everything in the United States comes on a ship. First week, be all over the news every night, boom, boom. Second week, guys who sell cars can't sell cars because cars ain't coming in off the ships, they get laid off. Third week, malls start closing down, they can't get goods from China, they can't sell clothes. Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel's not coming in. The lumber's not coming in. They lose their jobs. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important our jobs are. Harold Dagget - International Longshoremen's Association's chief negotiator Not everything in the US comes on a ship. Not all cars come off a ship and the two I have will outlast his silly strike. So will the clothes I already have. Most of the malls have been closed for years. Construction delays will not make much difference in my life, I have not purchased steel nor lumber in many years. Sounds like a blowhard to me. Maybe he'll hold his breath until he gets his way! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted October 1 Popular Post Share Posted October 1 4 hours ago, james j neiweem said: Obviously a short sided loud mouth that is not looking out for the good of the country. Protect the selfish union members and let the country be damned. That's why I have no respect for most any union. They were started for a good reason, so companies couldn't just treat employees any way they wanted. But somewhere along the line the unions got too much power, and they abuse that power at every opportunity. I drove for over 42 years and been to many ports to pick up loads many different times and I don't remember any of those times being a pleasant experience at all. I think everybody who works at every port in the U.S. is an arrogant over-paid asshole. They all treat truck drivers like dirt, and always act like they're doing you a tremendous favor just because they let you come to their port and pick up that load. Lot of steel mills were the exact same way. That's my opinion, and I could go on and on, but I won't. 4 3 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Tom, my short few years on the road taught me that too.. I would go to my truck and ask myself, What the 'F' did I get myself into??? Then I went local and pulled trailers for construction company and got cursed at every week. I am not a dumba$$, just soft, and they knew it.. anyway.. all good now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 not much of a comment here,,,,but god lovem for holding thier ground,,,more people need to do that,,,,,but if these selfish pigs,,,didnt send all of our good paying plant jobs out of here,,,,we wouldnt even be having this conversation,,,,and frankly,i dont know what the long shoremen are crying about so hard,,,,ive been hearing for years,,,they have always been paid very healthy...unless thier just making sure the higher ups they are on thier toes,and not going to settle for a contract thats not within atleast the high cost of living.and rising..bob 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Besides I used to be a teamster years ago And I was asking one of the representatives about far-fetched demands and he told me no we don’t expect to get anything like that. We just shoot for High and settle for anything decent. They hand us kind of like selling a car you set up with a very high price not expecting to get it if you can get it fine and that made sense to me. I was just a very young guy back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark T Posted October 1 Popular Post Share Posted October 1 I find it odd how on news they always use language like " holding a daggar to the throat of democracy " This is exactly that, and no one says a thing. Meanwhile the people in charge (whoever it really is) didn't learn from a short time ago what happens when you stop the supply chain . Once again , the results of the few controlling the many.......and a real good example of someone counting someone else's money. And.....at a time when there's so many people who are going to need things with all the destuction from storms. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Came across this one. .....Hippy https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/the_longshoreman_s_america_threatening_leader_is_a_yacht_owning_millionaire_with_allegedly_unsavory_connections.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 Mark I think you’re trying to tell us allotta folks with everything don’t give a rats ass about the rest of us … he’ll of a mess they got down there… and appears to be way worse than any of us thought….. nothing any of us can say or do to ease thier unfortunate circumstances as we mentioned the media is not doing a whole lot of coverage but then again they probably can’t get in the troubled areas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 I think that last one was supposed to go towards the hurricanes. Don’t know how it wound up here…. Bob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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