The longshoremen ‘ coalition has agreed to return to work after the White House intervened and strong-armed the  , U. S. Maritime Alliance, representing freight companies, to give the coalition what they wanted regarding salary.
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The longshoremen will soon resume their employment under the ancient agreement, and the two parties may have until January 15 to resolve the issues that are still unresolved.
Why Biden did n’t intervene to prevent the strike is clear. He desired that the International Longshoreman Union ( ILA ) show its strength and willingness to halt the U.S. economy in order to obtain what it desired.
The union wanted a 77 % increase in wages. After the companies offered 50 %, they got a 62 % increase after White House aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients and other senior officials, held a Zoom meeting with the shipping lines at 5: 30 a. m. ( Good morning. Did I awake you? Sign here. ) However, acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su visited coalition leaders in New Jersey, urging them to get on board.
Shared bargaining is essential to fostering a stronger economy from the bottom up and the middle away, according to President Joe Biden in a statement following the announcement of the deal.
ILA President, the bomb-throwing Harold Daggett, claimed the stevedores deserved a” good discuss” of the “hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue that shipping firms made”. Given what the businesses had to do to transport the goods from point to point around the world, that’s not even in the rough when it comes to income from the pandemic.  ,
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And as far as a” good discuss” for the federation, there are around 50, 000 ILA people but just 25, 000 jobs. The other half of the federation draws” box profits”. The “royalties” were reached in a previous agreement to shield union members from career losses brought on by automation.
The coalition is now requesting that there be no technology at all. We’ll see how that turns out, since technology is the main topic that needs to be resolved before the January 15 date.
What does the ILA have given them this tremendous strength over the docks? The 2019-2020 statement from the New York Harbor Waterfront Commission, which was quoted by The Wall Street Journal, paints a dramatic, cruel picture of the ILA’s dominance over the ports.  ,
” The absolute control of the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO ( ILA ) over hiring in the Port for over 60 years has not only led to a lack of diversity and inclusion in waterfront employment, but also to the perpetuation of criminality and corruption”.
Additionally, according to the report,” those who are connected to organized crime statistics or union leadership are rewarded with high-paying, low-show, or no-work specific payment plans.”
This is how ILA boss Harold Daggett earns$ 900, 000 a year, drives a Bentley and owns a 76-foot yacht. And this is the union that President Biden, Kamala Harris and “national conservative” intellectuals extol as tribunes of the working class. Why has n’t Mr. Biden rung up these guys for” systemic racism”?
This is what occurs when unions are granted monopoly negotiating power, which enables them to extort large-scale rents. The ILA is the sole union bargainer for East and Gulf Coast ports, and there is little non-union port competition. The union has extortionary leverage because of its chokehold on commerce.
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The ILA’s working-class heroes may not have finished holding the economy hostage. U.S. ports will continue to be inefficient as compared to the rest of the world’s port operations unless the Maritime Alliance consents and delays or abandons the port’s modernization plans.  ,
All the union’s actions have done is increase shipping costs substantially, which hurts millions of small businesses.  ,