Should Truck Drivers Go On Strike To Honor The Longshoremen? - 9/24/2024

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  1. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    Average Wage, not crane opeeator
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  3. IH9300SBA

    IH9300SBA Road Train Member

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    Keep kicking the working man while whining you're going to make less this year. Wait until you find out what the C-Suite boys make, or better yet, your Federal employees. You're a bitter old man that obviously didn't plan well financially based on your posts and wish that everybody else was in the same miserable boat.
     
  4. supersnackbar

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    Longshoreman, a working man? Please. Most union members don't work hard, that's why they are at a union job. That way they can slack off, and the union protects them. If they had to work hard for a living they would cry worse than they do now, or else hold out their hand so the government can help them out.
     
  5. born&raisedintheusa

    born&raisedintheusa Road Train Member

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    Employees at United Parcel Service, (UPS), members of the Teamsters Union, work extraordinarily hard, both inside the warehouses & out on the road. One would be hard pressed to see a UPS employee slacking off.

    God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

    The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.
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    Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.
     
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    While I agree about UPS workers, I don't think longshoremen work near as hard. While I'm sure there are other jobs than sitting in a crane hoist all day, I think someone has to put those locking things in the corners to prevent tipping, and to go down in the hole, would be a bit intimidating. I'm sure there are crap jobs, like reloading a container or clean the captains quarters, but I don't think they work very hard.
     
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  7. IH9300SBA

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    Any job not performed by yourself appears easy, right up to the point you have to do it. It's disingenuous to think ALL union labor is lazy. And remember, 2 parties signed the contract, if the company doesn't know what's in it and understands it forwards and backwards, that's their problem. I've seen too many instances of the company choosing the easy way out instead of disciplining and that is the exact wrong way to handle it. On the other hand, I've seen a site safety man tell two Ironworkers to brass out and hit the road because they came out of their connex without earplugs in.
     
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