Dock strike/Toilet paper shortage??

[newbury]

How dumb is America?
Dock strike starts and stores are running out of toilet paper!
We don't import toilet paper!
Did some internet rumor start it?
/edit -
looked it up:

Roughly 99% of toilet paper Americans use is made in the United States. Kimberly-Clark, Proctor & Gamble and Georgia-Pacific make a majority of the toilet paper in the United States. Kimberly-Clark paper mill in nearby Chester, Pennsylvania, produced 60% of the entire Scott 1000 type of Scott toilet paper in 2022.

 

[Locoweed]

Are you trying to makes sense?

 

[oosik]

And these folks and their inbred lack of knowledge are allowed to breed.

 

[2manyrocks]

Had to divert resources from making toliet paper to printing absentee ballots for dead voters.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

So what are your thoughts on the dock strike in general? I heard on the news that the workers make from $21-$40 per hour and are asking for 77% increase. As well as no automation allowed ever...

Down here where I'm from there are no unions. From my vantage point I don't see a lot of necessity for unions. I think - years ago - they were designed to make workplaces safer, to force standardization of pay and to keep workers out of "bondage" - company store kind of thing. I feel like they accomplished their goal and have moved beyond far beyond that. It seems like if they are allowed cart blanch, they could kill the industries they are integrated into.

 

[SPYDERLK]

How dumb is America?
Dock strike starts and stores are running out of toilet paper!
We don't import toilet paper!
Did some internet rumor start it?

Around 40%. Certainly enuf to clear the shelves.

 

[oldnslo]

So what are your thoughts on the dock strike in general? I heard on the news that the workers make from $21-$40 per hour and are asking for 77% increase. As well as no automation allowed ever...

Down here where I'm from there are no unions. From my vantage point I don't see a lot of necessity for unions. I think - years ago - they were designed to make workplaces safer, to force standardization of pay and to keep workers out of "bondage" - company store kind of thing. I feel like they accomplished their goal and have moved beyond far beyond that. It seems like if they are allowed cart blanch, they could kill the industries they are integrated into.

I live in the UAW union belt area and agree with your points on unions have gone to far but on the side of the coin companies are going extreme of expecting 60 hours work for 40 hrs pay so just can’t seem to find that middle ground.

 

[D&D]

So what are your thoughts on the dock strike in general? I heard on the news that the workers make from $21-$40 per hour and are asking for 77% increase. As well as no automation allowed ever...

Down here where I'm from there are no unions. From my vantage point I don't see a lot of necessity for unions. I think - years ago - they were designed to make workplaces safer, to force standardization of pay and to keep workers out of "bondage" - company store kind of thing. I feel like they accomplished their goal and have moved beyond far beyond that. It seems like if they are allowed cart blanch, they could kill the industries they are integrated into.

Living near the Port of Baltimore, I think the union stinks. Md'ers were encouraged to pull together and protect the workers and their pay, now they turn their back and give you the finger.
Too bad Ronald Reagan isn't around to remind workers what can happen.

 

[mrmikey]

I worked in a union shop, only thing I saw a union do was protect people that should have been fired years ago. As LBBJ said above, maybe years ago they were required. Kinda doesn't make sense when the loudmouth union head makes almost $900K a year, bet he's roughing it.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I see your point about unions going a little too far. But what about corporations and CEO pay scales/bonuses. The working class sees these corporations/CEOs making record breaking profits since COVID and people are sick of breaking their backs and getting ripped off to line the golden pockets of their rich stakeholders.