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lol stupid
goddam, you right wingers are stupid. OWS is FORCING workers to strike?
lol stupid
What does the steelworkers have to do with dockworkers?
unionized employees pushing back an BigCorp oppressors
LOL...
You're twisted!
Cosmic-The article is bogus & reeks of management propaganda...You are a business owner who employs skilled workers…Nobody hands out 150k jobs to skilled workers…The Longshoreman earning 150k to 250k are “highly skilled workers”..Engineers, Tug Boat Captains & heavy duty crane operators… The dock workers that I know “skilled workers”, electricians, maintenance workers with 15 to 25 years on the job earn between 50k & 75k which includes overtime…The forklift operator earning +100k is really a myth…About 15 years ago the Long Beach Dock workers agreed to a reduced pay contract…(Give_Backs)...Older workers were grandfathered at the old pay rate…New hires & employees with less tenure worked at the reduced pay rate…There were some forklift drivers who were allowed to work until retirement at the old rate, delivering doughnuts & coffee while earning 100k plus, but they are now all gone…Today’s So Cal dock workers have a fast pace physically intense work environment…Many of whom are seeking easier employment in the entertainment industry…
http://www.simplyhired.com/salaries-...h-ca-jobs.html
123K a year at 40 hours per week with no overtime for 3rd shift.
Which i'm sure the union probably schemes up plenty of overtime?
For some ape driving a forklift?
Edit okay i just read SportsCampers post.
So they just recently got rid of 100K donut and coffee delivers? Lots of cred there, Union.
No doubt, but to say the average is $147k...123K a year at 40 hours per week with no overtime for 3rd shift.
Which i'm sure the union probably schemes up plenty of overtime?
For some ape driving a forklift?
Edit okay i just read SportsCampers post.
So they just recently got rid of 100K donut and coffee delivers? Lots of cred there, Union.
How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers
The culprit, as with so much of our financial woes today, stems from deregulation. As David Bensman of Rutgers University writes in the report Port Trucking Down the Low Road: A Sad Story of Deregulation:
It is ironic that port trucking has become the poster child for destructive deregulation, because the passage of the bill that deregulated the trucking industry, The Motor Carrier Act of 1980, was hailed by liberals and the business community alike as a triumph of policy reform. Senator [Ted] Kennedy and Ralph Nader led the reformers who charged that trucking regulation meant high rates for consumers, and monopoly profits for businesses. Large shippers lobbied Congress for an end to the rate setting and route planning which limited compe ion and drove up the cost of freight transport. Civil Rights organizations argued that deregulation would lower barriers that impeded African-Americans from gaining a just share of decent trucking jobs. Despite these high hopes, deregulation has wrecked the drayage industry.
After deregulation, union companies were forced out of the market, and new companies found a way to squeeze even greater profit at the expense of workers. They sold their trucks back to drivers, Bensman explains, and then made them "independent contractors," meaning that the drivers would not make an hourly wage but instead would be be paid per load, and companies would no longer be responsible for costs such as health care, social security, worker's compensation, pensions, and payroll taxes.
The report, The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollution, and the Misclassification of Truck Drivers at America's Ports by Rebecca Smith, Dr. David Bensman, and Paul Alexander Marvy, found that just four years after the industry was deregulated, wages dropped 15-20 percent and fell to 30 percent lower by 1995. According to the report, today contract drivers make an estimated $11.91 per hour, compared with $14.71 for employees.
Even despite the several dollar difference in pay each hour, real wages for contractors are even lower — closer to $8 an hour.
"While these figures represent net earnings after truck expenses, they do not include tax burdens, a fact that widens the gap between independents and employees," according to The Big Rig's authors.
"Independent contractors must pay the employer's portion of Social Security, Medicare, and similar taxes, as well as their own." Drivers surveyed for their report also worked nearly 60 hours a week.
"Average net earnings before FICA, income, and other taxes was $28,783 per year for contractors and $35,000 per year for employees.
Minimum wage violations appear to be widespread," they wrote.
http://www.alternet.org/story/153393...rts_in_protest
As always, deregulation screws employees and consumers, while enriching employers and capitalists like Goldman.
Goldman, allowed by banking deregulation to buy non-financial corporations, didn't buy into the port operations business for charity, but to vampire-squid suck $Bs out of it.
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You work in a union shop and claim not to hear other offers because they have it so good for you. Then you ahve your political position.
Wow.
Don't you ever get another persons position correct?
Do you work in a union shop?
Do you ignore other job offers due to how good you have it at your job?
This reminds me when you were saying that you were misunderstood in being called a racist and then:
Map: The Most Common Job In Every State
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/...m_term=nprnews
I don't look for a different job. I deal with the union BS. As old as I am now, I don't want to start over ion a job.
You really should stop ASSuming.
Shouldn't Oregon be Mary Jane cultivator?
Well seeing that you first made these claims bragging about how you didn't want to leave your job and ignored other offers first at least 5 years ago either you are stupid, lying, or both.
Oregon's potheads seem to be losing, or at least being "rolled" back
"One proposed change to Measure 91 would give local governments the ability to prohibit sales or impose taxes.
Another proposed change could affect the state’s existing medical marijuana law. It would transfer oversight of medical marijuana dispensaries from the Oregon Health Authority to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission."
http://www.opb.org/news/article/new-...marijuana-law/
http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/cashcrops.html
Oregon:
Marijuana: $473,972
Hay: $346,751
Wheat: $195,018
That data is a decade old.
I seriously doubt it changed much. Do you?
I don't know. Seeing that you have zero agricultural experience, neither do you.
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