The Longshoreman & Stevadores negotiated contracts to get their pay and benefits to where they are. Congratulations to them. I hope they do well with the negotiations they are presently conducting.
After a lifetime of ownership of small companies and being a manager at other jobs with Teamster employees under my watch now that I’m retired even though I did fine I could have come out way better as a union member unloading ships in Staten Island at Howland Hook. I could have slept instead of worrying how to get the job done. Being a Union Member must be awesome. When you leave work you don’t have to think about work at all until tomorrow. I rest my case!
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