• For their new contract, ILA wants USMX to increase wages by 77 percent over six years and bar any automation, which they believe threatens workers’ jobs.
  • While USMX offered to raise wages by 50 percent and keep current automation checks in place, ILA said that was not enough, especially in light of the industry’s massive profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, and inflation that has affected how far their previous paychecks went.
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  • Notice how the media always present the verbiage of the dockworker’s employers as “employers’ group USMX,” without actually noting the employers’ group are the port owners, multinational shipping conglomerates and as a consequence, foreign countries.
  • In material fact, most critical ports in the USA are owned by foreign entities.  As a result, the ILA are striking against the ideological, political and financial interests of mostly foreign entities (USMX).
  • Also, the ILA wage increase demand is spread over six years and vehemently opposed by the same people who tell me I just need to accept the 70% price increase in food, insurance, housing and general stuff I use all the time. I digress.
  •   The ILA president is reported to earn $900,000 per year in salary, drive a Bentley and even own an expensive 76-foot yacht.  There is also a better than average likelihood he may be familiar with violence.
  •  , when you combine artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and remote access capabilities, it is clearly predictable that a time will come when 80% of the ILA jobs can be replaced by remote controlled operational systems.
  • In China, many industrial ports are already fully automated and operated remotely by people using what look like gaming consols, robotics and computer screens.

    • Source: theconservativetreehouse.com

    October Surprise! Kamala Harris Embraces Striking Port Workers, Owns Any Resulting Economic Damage

  • The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) have gone on strike, shutting down the United States Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico ports, an act that will have lasting negative effects on the nation’s economy. This strike, the first by these unions in 50 years, comes a month before a general election – and Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has embraced the strikers, which places the Democrat Party in the position of owning the economic fallout.

    • Source: redstate.com

    Bank of America suffers outage as tens of thousands of users report struggling to get cash from ATM or check online accounts

  • Bank of America is experiencing a nationwide outage that is impacting tens of thousands users.
  • Downdetector, a site that monitors online issues, shows problems struck around 1pm ET, as users reported online and mobile banking and ATM services are down. 
  • Some Bank of American customers have also reported their accounts are showing an empty balance.  
  • As of 1:20pm ET, roughly 20,000 Bank of America had reported outages to Downdetector.