re: After finding out the longshoremen make 200k with overtime...and their mob boss 1 million+

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I was hired 3 years ago and work at one of the busiest pier in NJ. I guess I was hired at ther right time cause most of ther time I have to beg for a day off.

You may make more than a just hired longshoreman, but you have to realize the outside of 8am and 5pm, it's all OT at time and a half. You get 3 meal hours a day at double time. Weekends are time and a half.

You don't pay for your full benefits, which is a $20k plan. You get 14 or 16 paid holidays (can't remember the exact number).

Two days a month you can just not show up to work... not sure where else you can get that.. You don't need any education really and driving a machine isn't rocket science.

You get a container check every years. The partial one was 9k this year, the full was 24k, before taxes.

We're the only port with a blow system. So really if I have a 16 hour day, I work a third of those hours but get paid for 16. Depending on the job you're doing, the blows are great! In the hole, you work 6 and rest for 6, but you're paid for 12. Usually a hole job is 22 hours a day, do the math. Oh and out of those 22 hours, you worked about 12 and only got regular pay for 7 hours, the rest is OT or double time.

Cruise terminals and cars are a bit different. They don't have blows. At a cruise terminal though, you can make a lot just in tips. If you hustle, easily an extra $150 in your pocket. Cars has a 15 min break in the morning and one in the afternoon. But it's not hard work either..

We're not like the west coast where you have the perform every job. Here you're either hired as a longshoreman, a lasher, a checker or a mechanic. A longshoreman will never do a lasher's job.

This is by far the easiest job I've ever had for the most money.

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gave himself a million dollar bonus.

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You have posted multiple times on this thread but provided ZERO links to any of your claims.

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So how about you provide those local ILA chapters' pay scales?

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You act like they wouldn’t be automated if they didn’t fight for those wages

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Your argument is CEOs are overpaid. I presume by "CEO," you're referring to the lead hospital administrator. If so, yes, they are often overpaid. Does that mean we should equally overpay the workforce?

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I would rather an overpaid workforce than an overpaid CEO

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But would you rather foot the bill for that workforce?

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Who is footing the bill for the CEOs?

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