http://gcaptain.com/east-coast-port-strike-contract-talks/ Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://gcaptain.com/east-coast-port-strike-contract-talks/#comment-33312 Dr. Faustus Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:10:11 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/?p=54447#comment-33312 From what I’ve heard, the main sticking point is the “no show” dockworkers. I’m sorry, but I’m a union member and I at least have to show up for work to get paid. You’re not going to get much sympathy from anyone if you expect to get top pay for little to no work. Can we please bring union labor back to some semblance of respect in this country???

]]> http://gcaptain.com/east-coast-port-strike-contract-talks/#comment-33268 Mike Cees Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:21:30 +0000 http://gcaptain.com/?p=54447#comment-33268 If the ILA in other East coast ports are anything like the ones in New York/New Jersey then I more than welcome and support all the cuts that need to be made to their workforce. I worked for a long time as an Agent in Port Elizabeth and the clowns they have working as Stevedores are the most corrupt and wholly useless group of people I think I’ve ever met. The linemen were the worst of the worst…never on time, constantly fouling up the simplest job of them all, fouling props and damaging ships. All while driving tricked-out Hummers with 22 inch rims. And they wonder why people are saying they are overpaid.

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