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>>394287

Interesting concept but the commies are the ones who will mostly go hungry because they are very dumb and unprepared and most of these morons live in the cities, so they don't grow their own food. Ironically, if you live rural, you are more likely to find big farmer markerts with local nearby farmers providing stuff, as well more like-minded people having gardens and raising livestock, hunting and fishing. The prepper/rural cultures would survive far better than these city dwelling commies would. Also, if this happens under Biden's watch they are likely just shooting themselves politically in the foot, when people go hungry they start to HATE their current government!!! That is human history 101.

hahaha you'reSOstupid, dude

UPDATE:

US Port Workers Agree To End Strike After Accepting 62% Wage Increase

Late on Thursday, 45,000 striking dockworkers at US East and Gulf coast ports agreed to return to work after port operators sweetened their contract offer, ending a three-day strike that threatened to disrupt the American economy.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and port operators, in a joint statement, said they had reached a tentative agreement on wages and union members would return to work. They said the agreement would extend the prior contract, which expired at the start of this week, through Jan. 15, 2025 while the two sides negotiate on other issues, including automation on the docks.

The breakthrough came after port employers offered a 62% increase in wages over six years, the WSJ reported citing people familiar with the matter. The new offer, up from an earlier proposed raise of 50%, came after the White House privately and publicly pressed the large shipping lines and cargo terminal operators who employ the longshore workers to make a new offer to the union.

The agreement ends a strike that had closed container ports from Maine to Texas and threatened to disrupt everything from the supply of bananas in supermarkets to the flow of cars through America’s factories, and cost the US economy billions each day in lost commerce.

The latest offer would raise the base hourly rate for ILA port workers to $63 from $39 over six years. One of the people said the offer is being made on the condition that dockworkers go back to work and agree to efficiency gains.

The offer is less than the union demand for an increase of 77% over the term of the contract but a far larger increase than most major labor contracts, including a contract reached last year covering the separate union representing West Coast longshore workers. Many U.S. dockworkers currently earn more than a $100,000 a year, with baseline hourly wages boosted by work rules and overtime requirements.

The strike came about five weeks from a presidential election where both main candidates are wooing working-class union voters. Both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have voiced support for the workers, stressing that the carriers are mostly foreign-owned.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-port-workers-agree-end-strike-after-accepting-62-wage-increase

>>394431

MY COMMENT: I am happy for the workers, although personally I thought a 77% raise was too high myself, considering if it hit profits enough the expenses are always passed onto us consumers. No doubt 62% raise is good for them, absolutely, it should help relieve some financial burden (for a while, that is, price inflation is not going away anytime soon!) The corporations originally offered a 50% raise and I thought to myself, well just ask for 70% and maybe they'll offer back 60% but they stuck to their guns and it worked out well for them.