This longshoreman strike will get ugly

[The Tradition]

So for the last 25 years how do you see corporate profits far outpacing workers wages? Data shows time and time again if you give money to the middle class and poor they spend it all and keep the economy going. This is the first time in US history when 30 year olds have it worse than any other generation before them since the founding of this country.

What's your proposal to fix it.

Hmmm.... what could have possibly happened 25 years ago?

 

[ericram]

Did I read right that the union wants a 77% raise over 6 years and complete protection from automation? Both of those things seem very far fetched.

I’m all for workers using their voice but those ideas seem pretty far out there.

Automation is the need in the future. The union is being ridiculous and probably deserve a raise but seriously 77%?

 

[The Tradition]

So they will get strike pay (assuming they show up to man the picket lines) and hurt John and Jane Q. Citizen, but if the price of everything goes up or doesn't exist at all, they'll be hurting themselves, too.

It's like a kamikaze attack.

 

[SalAunese]

Automation is the need in the future. The union is being ridiculous and probably deserve a raise but seriously 77%?

Many of them are overpaid as they are.

 

[seminole97]

So for the last 25 years how do you see corporate profits far outpacing workers wages? Data shows time and time again if you give money to the middle class and poor they spend it all and keep the economy going. This is the first time in US history when 30 year olds have it worse than any other generation before them since the founding of this country.

What's your proposal to fix it?

If you consume all production, what do you invest to increase production tomorrow and increase living standards for the future?

 

[RileyHawk]

If you consume all production, what do you invest to increase production tomorrow and increase living standards for the future?

What is your answer to this question?

 

[joelbc1]

So for the last 25 years how do you see corporate profits far outpacing workers wages? Data shows time and time again if you give money to the middle class and poor they spend it all and keep the economy going. This is the first time in US history when 30 year olds have it worse than any other generation before them since the founding of this country.

What's your proposal to fix it?

 

[joelbc1]

It shows the success of “trickle down economics”……..the one Bill Clinton told 30 years ago doesn’t work……but the GOP knew better..