S2 Underground has some interesting comments on how this union is shooting themselves in the foot by having turned down a 50% raise, creating a situation that actually promotes port automation, and also is pretty much killing any goodwill they might have had by the union boss's statement about wanting the world to burn until they get what they want.
They had already lost me at turning down a 50% pay increase. That's the mafia, not a union.
https://youtu.be/oVh4YxvNtBI
Unions are very good at that.
Look at the UAW demands in the 1960s and 1970s, when the US economy was really struggling and the US auto industry was literally on the verge of collapse.
Look at the Chicago Schools Union's demands that were put out earlier this year. Those demands are so beyond the pale is not even funny.
The concept that unions, as a whole, are an important partner in the labor-industry economic cycle, is stale and outdated and archaic.
At one time unions did serve the needs of their workers. Some unions still do. By and large, though, those are the smaller unions. The larger the union, the more "influence" it has over some aspect of society, the more corrupt it tends to be, the less it tends to care out either its workers or its impact on society, and the more it cares only about its ability to bleed power, influence, and money into its own structure.
Why do you think organized crime has targeted large blue collar unions like the Teamsters and Garbage Handlers?
