cruisindude415

Just came in on the Star Princess and we know what travesty we saw on the dock. The tactics the union workers are using are not gaining them any support from those that are observing from the dock.

 

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Im sorry, I reread the entire thread and cant find any specifics of what you actually saw. Were they refusing to work? Rude? What was it that they did?

to answer a previous question longshore men remove the bags from the ship and load them onto whatever you pick them up from. The pay for a worker who picks up a porter job is completely different from the numbers listed, and personalities are always a wide range no matter what business you interact with. What you want to tip someone is your business and if the person isnt happy with it, then too bad.

American shipper is just quoting numbers released by the pacific maritime association. These numbers, while not a lie, are misleading. For instance the benefits number of 35k, comes from all moneys paid by the fund and divided by the number of active full time longshore workers. So every retiree, surviving spouse, those on disability etc, then divided only by those currently working full time. The avg. Salary quotes are arrived at by a similiar method, all hours worked that year, then divided only by those that worked a certain cut off of hours in the year. 1300 ~1600 something along those lines.

Lastly the union is not in control of how many workers are ordered. The employers decide how many they want, and for months now they have ordered less than they need.

however cruise ships and american flag vessels are never part of these problems as the federal government has steps that would instantly damage whichever side was responible for slowing down the service of such vessels. That being said, customer service people like to use current news stories like whats going on in the ports as an excuse for anything you might call to complain about