{"id":110555,"date":"2024-10-05T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110555"},"modified":"2024-10-05T05:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T22:08:06","slug":"how-did-50k-dockworkers-strike-at-us-ports-with-only-25k-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110555","title":{"rendered":"How did 50K dockworkers strike at US ports with only 25K jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nearly 50,000 dockworkers launched a strike this week at ports from Maine to Texas \u2014 but, in a bizarre quirk that has resulted from massive concessions to the union over the decades, the affected ports only employ 25,000.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a massive gulf in the numbers between those who show up for work and total membership in the powerful International Longshoremen\u2019s Association, which won a deal late Thursday for a 62% wage increase over the next six years.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because half of the dockworkers at the East and Gulf coast ports are allowed to sit at home collecting \u201ccontainer royalties\u201d negotiated decades ago to protect against job losses that result from innovation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/longshoremen-union-strike-ports-waterfront-commission-new-york-harbor-harold-daggett-debd179a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The union behind the historic three-day port strikes has long been accused of corruption, mob ties and discrimination, according to a report. <span class=\"credit\">Kyle Mazza\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The impact of these no-show jobs at the ports \u2014 controlled by ILA\u2019s highly-paid and foul-mouthed president Harold Daggett \u2014 were part of an explosive <a href=\"https:\/\/waterfront.ny.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/2023\/11\/2019-2020_wcnyh_annual_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2019-2020 Waterfront Commission report<\/a> cited by The Journal\u2019s editorial board on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>That report laid out how the ILA\u2019s iron grip helps some workers at the expense of countless other blue-collar applicants by refusing to hire residents near the ports \u2014 and reignited concerns about the mob\u2019s control over US shipping made famous in the classic film \u201cOn the Waterfront.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe absolute control of the International Longshoremen\u2019s 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,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/waterfront.ny.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/2023\/11\/2019-2020_wcnyh_annual_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Waterfront Commission report found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Marlon Brando in \u201cOn the Waterfront,\u201d which was inspired by alleged mob activity among longshoremen. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It also alleged that nearly 600 union members received more than $147 million in outsized salaries not required by the industry\u2019s collective bargaining agreement \u2014 and for hours they don\u2019t have to work at the ports.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThose who are connected to union leadership or organized crime figures are rewarded with high-paying, low-show or no-work special compensation packages,\u201d Walter Arsenault, then-executive director of the Waterfront Commission, wrote in the harbor report.<\/p>\n<p>The ILA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Daggett \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/01\/business\/who-is-harold-daggett-the-port-union-boss-with-alleged-mafia-ties\/\">who threatened to \u201ccripple\u201d adversaries<\/a> during the strike \u2013 took the helm as ILA president in 2011. He raked in $728,000 in compensation last year from the union, and collected another $173,000 as president emeritus of a local union branch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/09\/25\/dockworkers-strike-disrupt-economy-election-00181005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Labor Department filings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He lives in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/02\/business\/harold-daggetts-sprawling-nj-mansion-has-bentley-5-car-garage-and-guest-house\/\">7,316 square-foot house on a 10-acre lot in New Jersey<\/a> with a luxury Bentley parked in front, and he previously owned a 76-foot yacht called the Obsession, according to Zillow and NJ Property Records.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>ILA President Harold Daggett \u2014 and his two sons \u2014 received six-figure salaries from the union, according to reports. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His two sons are also union bigshots who reportedly make big bucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Daggett is the executive vice president of the ILA and earned $250,156 in the fiscal year ended December 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/organizations\/135623897\">according to ProPublica<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>John Daggett, the general vice president of the Atlantic Coast District ILA, earned $264,228 in the same period.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>An aerial view of the more than 7,000 square-foot home belonging to Harold Daggett, according to Zillow and NJ Property Records. <span class=\"credit\">LP Media for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While white male employees and relatives earned big, the union continued to employ discriminatory hiring practices, the Waterfront Commission report said.<\/p>\n<p>The commission said it faced \u201cvirulent opposition\u201d in its efforts to ensure the union required fair hiring practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix years and almost 1,300 additional workers later, very little progress has been made in diversifying the registered deep-sea longshore workers in the respective ILA locals,\u201d Arsenault wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The Waterfront Commission said it faced \u201cvirulent opposition\u201d in its efforts to ensure the union required fair hiring practices. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the union did hire employees from diverse backgrounds, it separated them by locals.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of incoming black longshoremen were placed in one predominantly Black ILA local in Newark, NJ, while coveted positions in ILA Local 1 were largely given to white males, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The demographics for registered union maintenance workers and mechanics were even less diverse. Only one out of the 1,024 registered longshore maintenance workers in the entire port was a woman, the 2019-2020 report said.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog agency also accused the union of having ties to organized crime figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The commission did not approve 18% of the ILA\u2019s longshore worker referrals because they were tied to organized crime, the report said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The watchdog agency also accused the union of having ties to organized crime figures. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Daggett has fought allegations of mob ties himself.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the Justice Department accused Daggett of being an \u201cassociate\u201d of the Genovese crime family \u2013 one of the \u201cFive Families\u201d of the US Mafia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him with racketeering.<\/p>\n<p>He described himself as a target of the mob \u2013 though a turncoat Mafia member had testified Daggett was under the mob\u2019s thumb, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/09\/nyregion\/three-longshoremen-not-guilty-of-fraud-and-other-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the trial, one of Daggett\u2019s co-defendants \u2013 Lawrence Ricci, an alleged major mob figure \u2013 disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal late Thursday night, suspending the strikes. <span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ricci\u2019s death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Daggett was acquitted in two cases.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Daggett has bad-mouthed the commission and called its accusations of mob ties \u201ctotal bulls\u2013t\u201d and a \u201cdark, ugly attack on Italian Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a damn tragedy for the Waterfront Commission to enjoy free rein and target Italian Americans as part of their historic anti-worker campaign,\u201d Daggett said in 2022. \u201cLet\u2019s be real here. The Waterfront Commission has, for decades, claimed good jobs went to only those with so-called \u2018mob ties.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/04\/business\/how-did-50k-dockworkers-strike-at-us-ports-with-only-25k-jobs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50,000 dockworkers launched a strike this week at ports from Maine to Texas \u2014 but, in a bizarre quirk that has resulted from massive concessions to the union over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=110555\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}