Name: Teamsters Boss Explains Why The Longshoremen Almost Went on Strike
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Teamsters Boss Explains Why The Longshoremen Almost Went on Strike' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Teamsters Boss Explains Why The Longshoremen Almost Went on Strike' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-08. Transcript available.

Speaking of strikes and stuff, recently they have, so right now they are all,
the longshoremen are striking, right?
They are from the top of Maine, I think, to the foothold in Texas.
Okay, and what is that about?
It's about, you know, it's like anything else.
You know, the longshoremen provide goods and services, so imports and exports
coming in.
They work in the ports.
They work on the docks.
They work in the ports and the docks.
Like James J. Braddock, like that.
Absolutely.
And, you know, they work, their contract expired the other night, but their
last contract was settled in October of 2018.
So, you know, they worked through the pandemic.
There's longshoremen that lost their lives.
There's longshoremen that, you know, can never go back to work because of the
ill effects of COVID.
But they were out there in the trenches, you know, providing goods and service
when supply chain was basically almost coming to a stop.
And all these shipping lines, like all these big corporations, benefited
tremendously.
Benefited off them being there.
Yeah, and it's like, you know, let's reward the people that made us a success.
Let's reward the people that provided goods and services country.
Let's reward the people that risked their lives and the safety of their
families to go to work so that we all have everything.
Now it's their time.
Their contract expired.
These shipping lines are making, you know, gazillions of dollars.
And, you know, they want what's due to them.
And, you know, it's funny.
You see this criticism online.
And, you know, social media is great, but it's all, it's just a lot of fake shits
on there.
And it's, I'm reading it this morning and looking at it this morning.
And, you know, they're attacking the longshoremen for striking.
You know, people are saying, well, they're going to drive up inflation.
They're going to, they're going to cause all the supply chain problems.
They are.
But, you know, do you want these greedy corporations to keep making millions
upon millions of dollars?
But the biggest threat right now is artificial intelligence to the longshoremen.
If you look what they're doing in the ports in China, you know, everything's
automated.
There's no jobs.
These are, these are.
They're semi-automated at least.
Yeah.
These are legacy, legacy industries that, you know, provide, they're 130-year
industry,
where they provide middle-class jobs to people.
And, you know, they're getting attacked because people are getting a little
inconvenienced.
Well, you know what, a little inconvenience, maybe it'll, maybe it'll give some
support to
these workers and, you know, hold the people accountable that caused the strike.
Everybody says, oh, the ILA's striking.
No, the shipping lines that don't want to protect the jobs, that don't want to
reward these people
that made them a success chose to strike themselves.
Right.
Right.
They chose it.
Right.
They could have made a, yeah, everybody says they're the ones striking.
No, it's this other group that's not choosing to pay, not choosing to come to
the table,
not choosing to share, like the, yeah, like you said, not choosing to share
with the people
that have made it happen, you know?
They're making billions upon billions of dollars, you know?
So, I mean, it's like, you know, there's not a whole lot of sympathy from us.
Yeah.
As far as corporations and these shipping lines go.
And so is that a lot of what the ILA strike is over?
It's obviously the fears of automation, you know?
Fears of automation's everywhere.
I mean, that's a huge, huge threat to the ILA.
But also, I mean, look, you know, everybody's saying, you know, there's people
criticisms
online and, oh, Longshore make $140,000 a year.
That might be true.
But when you start out, you're starting out $20 per hour, right?
And you look at $20 an hour today, would that get you?
That's nothing.
And then, you know, if they're making $140,000, they're working 70, 80 hours
per week.
So, you know, there's not a whole lot of, you know, quality time at home with
your family.
They have to work and $140,000 is a great income, but you put two kids, you get
college,
you've got a mortgage.
It doesn't go a long way.
So, you know, it's time that, you know, we close that gap between, you know,
the CEO's
pay and in this case, the Longshoreman's pay.
Yeah.
Who's their leader over there?
Their, um...
Harold Daggett.
Yeah, that guy's a frickin'...
That guy's awesome, dude.
He's taking some heat.
Oh, yeah.
He's taking some heat.
Good.
Let him take some heat, dude.
That guy is fucking awesome.
You know the good thing about what he's...
Play this video real quick.
Sorry to interrupt you, Sean.
I just want to hear the Daggett.
Welcome to Daggett, Stan, dude.
This guy's a gangster.
It's changing into the future.
They're not making millions no more.
They're making billions.
And they're spending it fast as they make it.
I want a piece of that for my men.
Because when they made their most money was during COVID.
Yeah.
When my men had to go to work on those piers every single day when everybody
stayed home
and went to work.
Not my men.
They died out there with the virus.
We all got sick with the virus.
We kept them going from Canada to Maine to Texas, Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, now
the Bahamas.
Everybody went to work during COVID.
Nobody stayed home.
Well, I want to be compensated for that.
Amen.
I'm not asking for the world.
They know what I want.
They know what I want.
And if they don't, well, then I have to go into the street and we have to fight
for what
we rightfully deserve.
Fuck yeah.
These people today don't know what a shrike is.
Right.
When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port will lock
down.
You know what's going to happen?
That's good.
I'll tell you.
And what, so yeah, when they, and when he says a lockdown, what's, that would
affect everything,
right?
Yeah, the ports are just shut down.
There's nothing coming in or out.
And, you know, we, we, we represent a lot of members that, you know, we, we
haul off the
ports.
We, the ports deliver to warehouses where it's separated, load on trucks, we
deliver it.
So it's going to have an impact, but you know what?
It's, you know, a little, it's a short-term pain for long-term gain for these
guys.
And he's 100% accurate.
I mean, look, we get paid to fight.
We get paid to fight for our members and that's what he's doing.
Look, he's a character.
Have you spoken to him?
So I, I, I haven't, but, um, I deal with the leadership, uh, around the country.
Um, that's the only general president I haven't met that we deal with.
You know, I, I know all the other general presidents around the country from
all the other
respective units, uh, unions, and, um, I haven't met him.
I mean, the good news is he's, he's so public right now.
It's, it's keeping the shit away from me to be honest with you.
Yeah.
Huh?
I've been taking a lot of it lately, but I'm good either way, you know, I'm
good.
But, uh, no, he's look, he's, he's got a right, he's got the right fight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It sounds like, it sounds like they got the right guy doing it, you know, cast
of characters.
He's, you know, straight out of the Sopranos, you know?
Oh yeah.
I fucking hope they find some bodies in his yard.
Oh, hopefully they don't.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're right.
And I shouldn't say that.
Sorry, Harold.
I don't know.
I don't know what he's into.
You know what I'm saying?
But yeah.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.
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I don't know what he's into.
I don't know what he's into.