In response to a major strike by roughly 45, 000 union members, International Longshoremen Association ( ILA ) President Harold Daggett threatened to” cripple” America on Tuesday.
In a digital information shared on X, previously Online, Daggett said,” When my people hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every one slot may lock down”.
Daggett warned that the ILA strike’s first week would receive regular media policy. By the second week of the attack, Daggett claimed that automobile dealerships may be “laid off” and would no longer be able to sell cars because cars would not be entering U.S. slots. By the third week of the strike, the ILA president claimed that stores would be closing because they could n’t “get the good from China” or keep selling things like clothes.
” Everything in the US arrives on a ship. They go out of organization. Construction workers get laid off because the materials are n’t coming in, the steel’s not coming in, the lumber’s not coming in”, Daggett said. ” They lose their jobs”.
Daggett cautioned businesses that the U.S. Maritime Alliance may get better off” sitting down” and negotiating a deal with the ILA. Then, Daggett threatened,” I may ruin you, and you have no idea what that means”, Daggett said.
In another video, Daggett is heard telling a reporter for Fox News that the U.S. Maritime Alliance needs to improve its security against worker technology. He claimed that the businesses represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance have been caught” circumventing the contract” and “do n’t care” about it.
” It’s not fair”, Daggett said. They would like to run over us and we are not going to allow that, they said,” And if we do n’t put our foot down now, they would.”
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The union leader claimed that it was “time for Washington” to house “pressure” on the U. S. Maritime Alliance so that companies may agree to the government’s requirements for important pay increases and defense against technology.
Daggett emphasized that if the contract dispute is not quickly settled,” cars wo n’t come in, food wo n’t come in, clothing wo n’t come in”. He added,” You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world”.