Thousands of Amazon workers went on strike on Thursday as shoppers rush to complete last-minute holiday shopping the week before Christmas.
Union workers at seven fulfillment centers across the country joined the strike, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The union called the strike the largest ever against the online retail giant, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-workers-strike-union-61af8da6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
“If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed. We gave Amazon a clear deadline to come to the table and do right by our members. They ignored it,” Teamsters head Sean O’Brien said in a statement posted to <a href="https://x.com/Teamsters/status/1869546520812408910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>. “These greedy executives had every chance to show decency and respect for the people who make their obscene profits possible. Instead, they’ve pushed workers to the limit and now they’re paying the price. This strike is on them.”
Amazon said the work stoppage is not expected to affect Christmas shopping and delivery times. It is unclear how long the strike is expected to last, though a representative for the union has said it would last beyond Thursday.
The battle between Amazon and the Teamsters has escalated recently as the company continues to fight against a 2022 union election in Staten Island, New York. The Amazon Labor Union won the vote, which was certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The union later voted to affiliate with the Teamsters.
The company has maintained that the election was unfair and continues to fight for another vote. Amazon has also filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB.
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“For more than a year now, the Teamsters have continued to intentionally mislead the public – claiming that they represent ‘thousands of Amazon employees and drivers.’ They don’t, and this is another attempt to push a false narrative,” Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said in a statement, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/amazon-strike-teamsters-delivery-gifts-1ea28e27bc3ddd88d9f0c7c53f798d1d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
“Our employees have a choice of whether or not to join a union. They always have,” Nantel said, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/business/amazon-teamsters-strike/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. “We favor opportunities for each person to be respected and valued as an individual and to have their unique voice heard by working directly with our team.” Amazon is on record saying it believes the 2022 election in Staten Island was not a level playing field and that the results certified by the NLRB do not accurately reflect the opinion of the workers at the facility.
Amazon and the Teamsters have also argued whether delivery drivers are Amazon employees or contractors. Amazon says delivery drivers are employees of a separate business, Delivery Service Partners.
“There are a lot of nuances here but I want to be clear, the Teamsters don’t represent any Amazon employees despite their claims to the contrary,” Nantel said. “This entire narrative is a PR play and the Teamsters’ conduct this past year, and this week is illegal.”

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Hundreds of tech workers for The New York Times are on strike on Election Day after walking off their jobs on Monday.
The New York Times Tech Guild has been threatening a strike if it did not have a new contract by Election Day, putting at risk the paper’s noted election coverage tools, such as its electoral map and its election needle.
“We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @NYTimes management,” the guild said in a social media post on Tuesday morning.
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ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYTimes</a> management. <a href="https://t.co/K3ceJn4dHa">pic.twitter.com/K3ceJn4dHa</a>
&mdash; New York Times Tech Guild (@NYTGuildTech) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYTGuildTech/status/1853769231004733844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The guild represents more than 600 tech workers at The Times who work on games such as Wordle and The Crossword, as well as monitor many of the news organization&#8217;s audio options for its audience. It also supports the Times’ Cooking app.
“While we respect the union’s right to engage in protected actions, we’re disappointed that colleagues would strike at this time, which is both unnecessary and at odds with our mission,” Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/11/04/new-york-times-tech-strike-walkout/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
Perhaps most immediately important, the strike risks the functionality of the Times’ election tools on the site&#8217;s busiest day of the year.
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“It’s our peak traffic, when we see the most people coming to The New York Times is during a presidential election, so that’s why months ago we gave management a deadline saying we wanted a contract by the election or we’re going on strike,” Times software engineer Sarah Duncan told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-tech-worker-strike-stretches-election-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. “They wouldn’t give us what we were demanding, so we’ve already made enough compromises. We’re done compromising, so we’re out here until we get a fair contract.”
The Times tech union is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/23/new-york-times-tech-guild-strike/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">negotiating</a> a contract for the first time since it was formed in 2022. Union leadership has three central demands that company executives have not met. First, the union wants just-cause job protections that ensure its members cannot be fired without reason. The two sides have yet to reach an agreement on what that process looks like, though Times management has said it supports the principle.
Second, the union seeks contractual assurances that the Times will not change its current hybrid work policies that allow significant time outside the office. 
Third, the union demands that Times leadership fix pay equity and pay fairness shortcomings across the company, as revealed in a union study of pay disparities for women and minorities.

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One of the oldest cliches in Hollywood is that, if you want a story involving insane levels of corruption and over-the-top mob tactics, you should probably have a lot of dockworkers in your film. Some of the most famous movies ever made, like &#8220;On the Waterfront&#8221; starring Marlon Brando, made use of this conceit involving longshoremen. For generations, everyone&#8217;s understood that this industry functions a bit like a fiefdom, independent of the rest of the country. It promotes from within. It protects its own. And when it wants something, it&#8217;s not afraid to shut down the U.S. economy in order to get it.
Over the years, various presidents have had to tangle with the dockworkers and their unions. Some of these presidents, like FDR and Obama, have granted dockworkers massive concessions. Other presidents, like George W. Bush, went to <a href="https://money.cnn.com/2002/10/08/news/ports_longshoremen/">court</a> and used the Taft-Hartley Act to end strikes that were costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day. But no administration in the history of this country has adopted the approach that the Biden-Harris administration is now taking.
Right now, without any objection from the White House whatsoever, a 78-year-old union boss named Harold Daggett is proudly shaking down the entire country. He&#8217;s going on television wearing gold medallions and flaunting his $700,000 salary as his union, the 50,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association, shuts down 36 ports — including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. These ports, taken together, handle more than 50% of the imports and exports to this country. The cost to the U.S. economy is more than $4 billion a day, and very soon, this shutdown could lead to shortages and mass layoffs.
And Harold Daggett has made it very clear that he doesn&#8217;t care about any of these effects. He doesn&#8217;t care what happens to millions of Americans as a result of this strike. Watch:
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Longshoremen pres. boasts about a strike hurting everyday Americans: “People never gave a shit about us until now, when they finally realize that the chain is being broke now. Cars won’t come in, food won’t come in, clothing won’t come in.” <a href="https://t.co/rHJf1e96YU">pic.twitter.com/rHJf1e96YU</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1841138309801918954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Notice that there&#8217;s no rational argument here. He&#8217;s not arguing that dockworkers deserve higher salaries because they can&#8217;t make ends meet, or because they&#8217;re doing such a great job, or because they&#8217;re efficient, or any of that. He&#8217;s saying they should receive higher salaries because they&#8217;re holding America hostage. They have the power, so we need to pay the ransom.
When you look at the specific demands this union is making, the absurdity becomes even more apparent. Daggett wants the ports to give dockworkers a 77% pay raise to $69.00 an hour, after turning down a 50% pay raise. That&#8217;s far more than dockworkers make on the West Coast. Daggett also wants more &#8220;container royalties,&#8221; which gives money to longshoremen even if they&#8217;re not working. And he wants a complete ban on any forms of automation at ports.
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Previously I&#8217;ve talked about the rise of automation, and how it&#8217;s a threat to many Americans&#8217; jobs. There are obviously a lot of important concerns as far as how automation is used, and how many jobs it&#8217;s allowed to replace. But in this context, this blanket demand — that no automation is used at all — is a dead giveaway. It&#8217;s evidence that these dockworkers don&#8217;t care about the economy at all, or remaining competitive with what other countries are doing.
Here&#8217;s a look at what they&#8217;re doing in ports in China, to give you some idea.
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The Chinese port in Guangzhou. 
Virtual Longshoremen unload ships remotely with 5G, and help supervise AI vehicles that automatically drive the containers to trucks and load them, all remotely. <a href="https://t.co/Tt5J0oP1yr">pic.twitter.com/Tt5J0oP1yr</a>
&mdash; Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1840913618982093229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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They still have people working there, as you can see. But they&#8217;re using cellular connections and computers to remotely unload and offload the cargo. In many cases, that&#8217;s safer, faster, and cheaper than having humans do it. We don&#8217;t have any of this, and it&#8217;s because of unions. These unions are a big part of why U.S. ports are so inefficient compared to ports all over the world. As recently as 2020, the World Bank found that there wasn&#8217;t a single U.S. port that ranked in the top 50 global ports in terms of &#8220;getting a ship in and out of port,&#8221; quickly and affordably. Not a single one. Overall, our ports are about half as efficient as global ports on average. And now, the unions representing the workers at these ports are demanding a massive raise — along with a ban on any form of technology that could make the ports more efficient.
If the Biden administration wanted to put an end to this, they could. They could do what Bush did, and take this union to court. They could apply public pressure. They could also threaten to repeal other laws on the books that already benefit the dockworkers&#8217; unions. There&#8217;s something called the Jones Act, for example. It requires that all goods transported between U.S. ports by water are carried on ships that are built in the U.S. and crewed by Americans. This leads to hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs, but unions <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/opinion/port-strike-shipping-union-inflation-prices.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">love</a> the law because it means more union jobs are created.
Of course, that law won&#8217;t change, and no one in the Biden administration wants it to change. They don&#8217;t want to upset Harold Daggett — someone the DOJ once accused of being an &#8220;associate&#8221; of a mafia family. He has quite a life story, by the way. 
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/business/who-is-harold-daggett-the-port-union-boss-with-alleged-mafia-ties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>: 
<blockquote>Daggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him with racketeering. &#8230; During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged major mob figure – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner. Ricci’s death remained unsolved, though speculation circulated that he was killed after refusing to plead guilty to avoid news reports of the trial. &#8230; Daggett was acquitted.</blockquote>
So Harold Daggett beat that racketeering rap. And now he&#8217;s holding the U.S. economy hostage. Ships are having to re-route to the West Coast in order to prevent economic calamity, all because of him. It&#8217;s quite a recovery for Harold Daggett&#8217;s career. For the rest of us, it&#8217;s a crisis that has no real precedent in the past several decades.
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And this is just one of the several disasters that are unfolding in the final days of the Biden-Harris administration. Yesterday, Iran launched a volley of more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel. This is the second direct attack by Iran against Israel in just the last few months. It&#8217;s put us much closer to World War III than we&#8217;ve been in recent history. And it comes just a year after the Biden administration&#8217;s national security adviser bragged that the Middle East was &#8220;quieter&#8221; than it&#8217;s been in two decades.  Watch:
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Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (last week): &quot;The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades&quot; <a href="https://t.co/59MYUXhmHf">pic.twitter.com/59MYUXhmHf</a>
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A week after Jake Sullivan made that claim, Hamas terrorists backed by Iran committed a massacre in Israel. And now rockets are flying back and forth. And despite all of this, Jake Sullivan still has his job. He wasn&#8217;t fired. He wasn&#8217;t run out of Washington after making it abundantly clear that he has no idea what&#8217;s happening in the Middle East — which you&#8217;d think would be disqualifying for a national security adviser. They forced Mike Flynn out of the job of national security adviser after, what, three weeks? And then you have someone like Jake Sullivan, who&#8217;s obviously incompetent to the point of being dangerous, and he suffers no consequences whatsoever.
Again, nothing like this happened during the four years of the Trump administration. This level of international chaos, and complete ineptitude, simply was not present. Iran was not launching rockets directly into Israel, just like Russia wasn&#8217;t sending tanks directly into Ukraine. Are Iran and Russia taking advantage of the fact that the brain of the current U.S. president is basically applesauce at this point? That seems like a valid theory, especially since the Biden administration has no alternative hypothesis for what&#8217;s going on. If you ask them, everything&#8217;s fine — until suddenly it isn&#8217;t.
That&#8217;s the same story we&#8217;re seeing in North Carolina, as I discussed yesterday.
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Gut wrenching scenes from Western NC today. This is Chimney Rock — just downriver from Asheville. It’s one of the countless communities completely devastated by Helene that still need help. Give if you can, and please keep them all in your thoughts <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC11_WTVD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC11_WTVD</a> <a href="https://t.co/N7JDk0ygfz">pic.twitter.com/N7JDk0ygfz</a>
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After failing to evacuate residents from the western portion of the state, the federal government is now failing to help many of the survivors. Yesterday I shared an email that came from someone named Jason, who&#8217;s from the rural area of Ashe County. He reported that FEMA was nowhere in sight. Here&#8217;s an update he sent me last night: 
<blockquote>I just got home from volunteering with a search and rescue team in Lansing which is one of the flooded rural towns. &#8230; Funny thing is the FEMA people showed up today but they are worthless. We ran into a bunch while we were delivering water and generators and they were just walking around making sure that people were still in the house.</blockquote>
So the federal government is still failing to help people in the most devastated rural areas. And communications are still spotty, in part because the government didn&#8217;t want to spend any money on Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink system because they have a vendetta against Elon Musk. As a result, private citizens are now installing Starlink systems in the area. Journalist Nick Sortor just <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1841240114032431292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that &#8220;first responders still do not have reliable communications&#8221; in North Carolina after four days. He uploaded this footage of three North Carolina State Police units giving him a police escort so that he can deploy Starlink systems for others to use, and he added that the police are, &#8220;literally using MY Window Starlink to communicate with each other!&#8221; Watch:
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🚨 First responders *STILL* do not have reliable comms here in Western North Carolina
After FOUR DAYS.
The three NC State Police units giving us a police escort so that we can quickly deploy Starlinks across the region are literally using MY Window Starlink to communicate with… <a href="https://t.co/uLceenFYbL">pic.twitter.com/uLceenFYbL</a>
&mdash; Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1841240114032431292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The federal government spends hundreds of billions of dollars to prepare for disasters like this, ostensibly so that vital communications equipment and supplies are available within hours. But they haven&#8217;t been doing that. For the past several days, random people — citizen journalists and volunteers — have been doing a better job than the government agency that supposedly specializes in disaster relief.
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So wherever you look — whether it&#8217;s the Middle East, or North Carolina, or the nation&#8217;s ports — you&#8217;ll find an ongoing, once-in-a-lifetime disaster that&#8217;s threatening to spiral even further out of control. This is what the country — and the world — look like at the end of the Biden-Harris term. There are multiple catastrophes happening all at once. It&#8217;s impossible for anyone to deny that the world is a measurably worse and more dangerous place today than it was when they took office. Everyone knows it. Even Kamala Harris knows it. It&#8217;s why she had to duck the first question of the presidential debate, when she was asked whether Americans are better off now than they were four years ago. 
This is the Biden-Harris &#8220;legacy.&#8221; It&#8217;ll either end in January, or inevitably, these people will lead us into a major catastrophe that we can&#8217;t come back from.

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President Joe Biden appeared to confuse a military strike with a labor dispute when speaking to reporters over the weekend, responding to a question about Israeli air strikes in Yemen by stating that he was in support of “collective bargaining.”
Biden was exiting a vehicle when reporters began to shout questions at him, and he answered a few related to Israel and escalating military actions targeting Iranian-backed terror proxies like Hezbollah — but when a reporter followed up with a question about the “strikes in Yemen,” Biden answered as though he believed the issue was a simple labor dispute.
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REPORTER: &quot;Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President!?&quot;
BIDEN (or whatever&#39;s left of him): &quot;I&#39;ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I&#39;m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they&#39;ll settle the strike.&quot;
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“Mr. President, will you deploy more U.S. troops to the Middle East?” one reporter shouted, and Biden said, “No.”
First lady Jill Biden also exited the vehicle and quickly walked away, turning her back on the press while her husband walked toward reporters.
“Mr. President, has Netanyahu gone too far?” another reporter asked.
Biden did not appear to answer that question but approached the gathered reporters.
“Any comment on the strikes in Yemen, Mr. President?” a reporter asked.
“I&#8217;ve spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I&#8217;m supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they&#8217;ll settle the strike,” Biden replied.
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“Just so we&#8217;re all clear on what&#8217;s happening here — Jill Biden walks off without him, he is then asked about the Israeli IDF missile strikes in Yemen, and his reply is that he supports a union collective bargaining agreement and thinks that the strike will end soon,” conservative pundit Stephen L. Miller explained in an X post.
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Back in June, you were called a conspiracy theorist and a cheap fake artist for pointing things like this out.
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Miller then drew attention to the fact that Biden’s administration — including Vice President Kamala Harris — had covered for Biden long after it was obvious to everyone that he was struggling cognitively.
“Back in June, you were called a conspiracy theorist and a cheap fake artist for pointing things like this out.”

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About 45,000 dockworkers plan to walk off the job on Tuesday, hobbling the supply chain and throwing a wrench into the presidential election.
The International Longshoremen’s Association will launch a massive strike if port ownership does not meet the union’s demands for higher wages and address their objections to port automation. Negotiations broke down over the summer and the two sides are still at an impasse.
The strike will shutter 36 ports on the East and Gulf Coasts, choking off nearly half of all U.S. imports and costing the economy billions of dollars a day. Depending on how long the strike lasts, Americans could see shortages and delays past the election and into the holiday season.
Bananas, coffee, cocoa, pharmaceuticals, clothing, furniture, vehicles, and even Christmas decorations are among the products that will be affected. As far as American exports, beef, poultry, pork, eggs, and cotton will be impacted as well.
Supply chain shortages could cause prices to rise just as families are trying to recover from the <a href="https://econofact.org/inflation-and-prices#:~:text=But%20inflation%20rose%20well%20above,measured%20using%20the%20CPI%2DU." target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly</a> 20% spike in prices since before the pandemic.
The U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents port ownership, said in a statement, &#8220;we value the work of the ILA and have great respect for its members. We have a shared history of working together and are committed to bargaining.&#8221;
However, the alliance also filed an Unfair Labor Practice charge accusing the union of refusing to come to the table and negotiate. The current contract expires Monday.
On Sunday and Monday, the union <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ILAUnion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reaffirmed</a> its plans to strike in statements on social media, saying that port ownership continues to &#8220;block&#8221; a &#8220;fair and decent contract and seems intent on causing a strike at all ports from Maine to Texas.&#8221;
“The Ocean Carriers represented by USMX want to enjoy rich billion-dollar profits that they are making in 2024, while they offer ILA Longshore Workers an unacceptable wage package that we reject,” the union said Monday. “ILA longshore workers deserve to be compensated for the important work they do keeping American commerce moving and growing.
Dock workers will hit the streets at midnight on October 1, the union said.
The union added that it is &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; that foreign shipping companies want to make billion dollar profits at U.S. ports while longshore workers are &#8220;crippled by inflation&#8221; due to &#8220;unfair wage packages.&#8221;
<div dir="auto">“In addition, the shippers are gouging their customers that result in increased costs to American consumers &#8230; They are killing the customers,” the union said.</div>
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President Joe Biden indicated that he has no intention of stepping in and stopping the strike, which he could do under the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to prevent strikes that would threaten national security or health. This would force union workers to stay on the job for another 80 days.
On Sunday, Biden responded to a question about Israel&#8217;s strikes in Yemen by talking about the impending labor strike.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to both sides. They&#8217;ve got to settle the strike. I support the collective bargaining effort. I think they&#8217;ll settle the strike,&#8221; Biden told reporters on the tarmac.
No negotiations are scheduled before the strike is set to begin on Tuesday.
Even a one-day strike would snarl supply chains for six days, according to industry insiders. A longer strike would take weeks or months to recover from.
Meanwhile, the economy and inflation are top issues on voters&#8217; minds this presidential election, now just five weeks away.
Vice President Kamala Harris has struggled to win over voters with her economic message, with polls showing that a majority of voters favor former President Donald Trump on the economy.

Dock Workers Threaten First Major Strike In Fifty Years

East Coast Dockworkers Plan To Strike Tuesday, Hobbling Supply Chain

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It&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that dock workers on the East Coast will launch a massive strike Tuesday, shuttering 36 ports along the East and Gulf Coasts. If that happens, Americans could experience supply chain disruptions through election day and well into the holiday season.
About three quarters of banana imports to the U.S. arrive at ports that would be affected by a strike, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bananas-cars-clothes-us-port-labor-dispute-threatens-range-products-2024-09-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the chairman of Michigan State University&#8217;s department of supply chain management. Coffee and cocoa imports would also be affected, as would pharmaceutical imports — a third of which are routed through the port in Charleston, South Carolina.
Contract negotiations between port ownership and the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association, which represents more than 85,000 dock workers, broke down over the summer, and the two sides remain in a stalemate over both wages and automating port operations. A strike of this size would cause wide-ranging supply chain issues that could impact consumers past Election Day and well into the holiday season.
The National Tree Company, which sells artificial Christmas trees and other decorations, has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/business/economy/port-strike-economy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rushed</a> to import goods early to beat the strike, but expects to see 15% of its goods stranded if a port strike happens.
A strike would delay some $32.8 billion in clothing imports, and just over $23 billion of furniture imports. In the year that ended June 30, about $37.8 billion in vehicle imports <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bananas-cars-clothes-us-port-labor-dispute-threatens-range-products-2024-09-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> through the ports that would be shut down, according to S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence. Baltimore&#8217;s port sees the most car shipments of any port in the country.
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Peter Kopke, who has been importing fruit at his family&#8217;s company Kopke Fruit since 1958, warned that Americans would see prices &#8220;rise sharply&#8221; if the strike happens.
&#8220;Right now there&#8217;s million of boxes of citrus fruit as well as bananas and others that are going to be caught in the strike,&#8221; Kopke <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoTC5pbwFC0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Fox Business. &#8220;And if the strike lasts for any length of time, the fruit will deteriorate, and those business that employ thousands of employees will have to stop because they&#8217;re going to lose millions of dollars. So it&#8217;s a very, very serious thing, especially for perishables.
&#8220;This is something that is quite different since 50 or 60 years ago because now the international commerce is a tremendous part of our economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have 45,000 workers affecting 350 million people.&#8221;
The strike could also disrupt American exports, of beef, cotton, and poultry. About 70% of all poultry exports and more than a quarter of all egg exports leave via East and Gulf Coast ports, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bananas-cars-clothes-us-port-labor-dispute-threatens-range-products-2024-09-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to customs data and the USA Poultry &amp; Egg Export Council. Nearly half of all pork exports set to travel by ship, about 45%, and 30% of all beef exports were shipped out of the affected ports from January through July, a U.S. Meat Export Federation spokesperson <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bananas-cars-clothes-us-port-labor-dispute-threatens-range-products-2024-09-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Reuters.
Supply chain shortages could cause prices to rise just as families are trying to recover from the <a href="https://econofact.org/inflation-and-prices#:~:text=But%20inflation%20rose%20well%20above,measured%20using%20the%20CPI%2DU." target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly</a> 20% spike in prices since before the pandemic. Inflation is one of the most important issues to voters this presidential election, which has Vice President Kamala Harris locked in a tight race against former president Donald Trump less than six weeks out from Election Day.
About 76% of voters say inflation is a major factor in their choice for president, an August CBS poll <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-harris-inflation-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a>. Over half of voters favor Trump on the economy, compared with 46% who favor Harris, a Fox News poll <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/09/25/economy-election-harris-trump-polls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>.
Harris has struggled to say how she would lower prices.
She has acknowledged that &#8220;the bills add up&#8221; and promised that &#8220;building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.&#8221; However, many of her proposals would require congressional approval, and the campaign has not offered many details about how to pay for expensive proposals like a free $25,000 down payment for first-time home buyers.

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A looming dock worker strike could throw the economy — and the presidential election — into chaos, an October surprise that would likely hurt Democrats.
The International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association, which represents <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/19/largest-port-on-east-coast-begins-preparations-for-a-strike.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Message" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about</a> 85,000 dock workers nationwide, is threatening to strike on October 1 if the union cannot reach an agreement with port ownership. Negotiations broke down in June between the union and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents port management. The two sides are in a stalemate over both wages and the automation of port operations.
A strike would shut down five of North America&#8217;s 10 busiest ports, 36 ports total along the East and Gulf Coasts, and cause massive supply chain issues — which, depending on how long the strike lasts, could impact consumers past Election Day and well into the holiday season. If the supply chain is upended like this causing scarcities, we are also likely to see another nasty bout of inflation just as families are trying to recover from the <a href="https://econofact.org/inflation-and-prices#:~:text=But%20inflation%20rose%20well%20above,measured%20using%20the%20CPI%2DU." target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly</a> 20% spike in prices since before the pandemic.
The Biden administration has the power to stop strikes that could threaten national security or severely impact the economy. But the White House has said it will not intervene in a dock worker strike, and is encouraging the two sides to get back to the negotiating table.
The global economic turmoil wrought by a strike of this size cannot be overstated.
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The ports that would be affected move nearly half of all U.S. imports, and billions of dollars in trade each month. The ripple effects on supply chains in Europe, Asia, and Latin America would also be significant.
None of this is likely good for Democrats.
Election Day is only six weeks away, and Vice President Kamala Harris is locked in a nail-biter of a presidential race against former President Donald Trump. Harris is currently leading by <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a> points, a smaller lead than Hillary Clinton had in 2016 before losing to Trump. A strike would begin on October 1, the day of the vice presidential debate between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican Sen. JD Vance.
Even the threat of a strike is causing economic uncertainty at a time when the economy is not exactly Democrats&#8217; strongest issue. About 60% of Americans disapproved of President Biden&#8217;s handling of the economy in June. Harris is only just <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4890173-kamala-harris-donald-trump-economy-2024-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">starting</a> to catch up to Trump&#8217;s approval rating on the issue.
It&#8217;s unclear why Biden won&#8217;t intervene, though some have speculated that the president is unwilling to go out of his way to help Harris after Democrats ousted him from his reelection campaign over the summer. Others have wondered whether Biden is courting the dock worker union at a time when the union vote is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-first-democrat-in-decades-to-not-get-teamsters-endorsement-after-members-back-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not coming</a> easily to Democrats.
Last week, a group of House Republicans on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee <a href="https://transportation.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=407803" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to President Biden urging his administration to do everything in its power to prevent a strike that could lead to “dire impacts to our supply chains, our economy, and the American consumer.”
Even a one-day strike could take a week to recover from, industry insiders say. A strike that lasts a week would take several weeks of catch-up work, and the effects of a strike that lasts several weeks would be felt well into 2025. Meanwhile, retailers would suffer shortages throughout the holiday shopping season, their busiest time.
Any work stoppage is still over a week away, but the effects of a potential strike are already being felt.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com//podcasts/morning-wire/port-strike-potential-u-n-convenes-amid-crises-9-23-24">LISTEN: How A Looming Dock Worker Strike Could Upend the Economy</a> 
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is ramping down operations to avoid containers piling up should dock workers strike. Ships coming in from far away are planning to delay their journeys to a potentially impacted port. Some ships have been on their way to these ports since mid-August and hope to unload before any strike. Cargo is also already being moved from the East to the West Coast in anticipation of a strike.
The last strike by the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association happened in 1977, and lasted a whopping 44 days. Union president Harold Daggett was a union member during the first strike, and traveled to the West Coast with fellow members to picket the docks. They convinced the West Coast dock workers&#8217; union not to unload ships that were diverted there from the East Coast.

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The Israeli Left, intent on finding a way to topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, tried to implement a labor strike that would have crippled the country while it is at war with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and suffered a disastrous defeat.
Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David had called for a strike to start on Sunday, ostensibly because he argued that the government was not doing enough to bring hostages back  — a spurious claim as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has conducted successful operations to rescue hostages and Netanyahu has repeatedly accepted cease-fire proposals which Hamas has always rejected — but in reality was an attempt to bring the right-wing government down.
But Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, with the consent of Netanyahu, filed an injunction with Israel’s labor court to block the strike. The Gvura Forum, which represents family members of fallen soldiers, filed a similar injunction.
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“The court ruled soon after hearing the case that since the strike was &#8216;a protest&#8217; by nature and not related to workers’ rights, it needed to have been coordinated in advance and lasted for a limited period of a few hours,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-817363">reported</a>. “The strike was announced less than 12 hours prior to its start and was not limited, and was therefore illegal, the court ruled. The court added that the ruling was only relevant to the Histadrut and that other unions as well as business forums were not included.”
“The days where someone harnesses the power of organized work to advance political interests” were over, “especially during a war and when it serves the interests of Hamas and [its leader Yahya] Sinwar.”
“A large number of municipalities and regional councils did not join Monday&#8217;s strike,” Israel National News <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395592">noted</a>.
&#8220;Bar David&#8217;s political strike failed. We came to cry the cry of the nation and to tell Bar David: &#8216;You failed! Go home! We will not allow you to cause any more harm to civilians whose only sin is that they think differently than you. It inspires respect to see that most of the municipal leaders opposed your recklessness. The people of Israel will not agree to accept dictators in the Histadrut!'&#8221; Im Tirtzu chairman Shay Rosengarten stated.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak leads opposition to Netanyahu’s government. Barak has demonstrated his contempt for Israel’s most sacred places before and the Jewish connection to the land of Israel for decades; in June, the Israel State Archives released material that revealed that during the 2000 negotiations with terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, Barak was ready to give up Israeli sovereignty over parts of the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism.
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“At the Camp David talks five months earlier, Barak had already offered the Palestinian Authority control over territories that went far beyond what most Israeli military strategists believed the nation could give up and still retain defensible borders,” the Jewish News Syndicate <a href="https://www.jns.org/jns/israel/23/7/19/303916/">noted</a>, adding that U.S. envoy Dennis Ross admitted, “Barak’s government … formally accepted ideas that would effectively divide East Jerusalem, end the IDF’s presence in the Jordan Valley, and produce a Palestinian state in roughly 97 percent of the West Bank [as well as all of Gaza].”
In January. Barak co-signed a<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/opinion/congress-netanyahu-gaza-war.html"> letter</a> published in The New York Times urging Congress to rescind their offer for Netanyahu to speak before them. In June, he wrote an <a href="applewebdata://2C1B764D-80DB-4D5E-8056-C6102B0C36BC/We%20need%20to%20immediately%20replace%20this%20failed%20government">opinion piece</a> in the hard-Left publication Ha’aretz stating, “Israel is being led by a government and a prime minister who are patently unfit for their offices.”

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&#8220;Law &amp; Order SVU&#8221; star Ice-T says he&#8217;s not worried that an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maybe-we-really-should-be-scared-to-death-of-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Artificial Intelligence</a> (AI) version of himself could eventually take his place onscreen, continuing his character&#8217;s story arc in perpetuity.
Ice-T, born Tracy Lauren Marrow, already holds the record for playing the same character — Detective Odafin Tutuola on NBC’s &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221; — on a primetime television series. That happened entirely by chance, <a href="https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/how-long-has-ice-t-been-on-law-order-svu#:~:text=Ice%20T%20has%20since%20appeared,longest%2Drunning%20female%20actor.)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said</a> at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in 2022 — after a four-episode guest spot turned into a run that has lasted more than two decades and 500 episodes. Carrying on that role via AI would only extend his run.
&#8220;I think Ice-T could potentially act forever,&#8221; the actor referenced himself in the third person when talking to entertainment site <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/12/15/celebrity-news/ice-t-could-potentially-act-forever-with-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a>. &#8220;I wouldn’t care. I think to say ‘no’ would be selfish. A future AI version of me would be better than me.&#8221;
Ice-T spoke with journalists just before he was slated to host a book launch for &#8220;Our Planet Powered By AI,&#8221; by Mark Minevich — and despite the recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ends-after-118-days-with-tentative-agreement-reached" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SAG-AFTRA strike</a> that centered on issues related to the use of AI in film, he argued that people should be ready to work with the technology rather than against it.
&#8220;I believe it’s coming and we need to just address it as it comes. There is nothing you can do,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;One of my favorite quotes from Quincy Jones is, &#8216;if you want to lose a fight, fight the future.'&#8221;
&#8220;If you can’t beat them, join them. I am trying to read as much [as I can] to be involved as it grows,&#8221; he said, adding that the main concern for most people seemed to be that AI would take their livelihood.
&#8220;I think people are freaking because they think they are going to lose their jobs — but people can lose their jobs at any time,&#8221; he pointed out. &#8220;I don’t think people will lose jobs, they will have different jobs, we will become more computer-ish type people. When you imagine the future, you don’t imagine manual tasks, you imagine future s***.&#8221;

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After 118 days, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/actors">SAG-AFTRA</a> actors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strike">strike</a> is finally over, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> can get back to work.
Studios and union reps reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, meaning the strike ended at 12:01 a.m. PT on Thursday and production can start up again within the next few weeks, per <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/11/sag-strike-ends-actors-studios-deal-contract-1235566470/">Deadline</a>. 
Specific details still aren’t being shared with the public. More information will likely become available Friday when the agreement reaches the board, the publication noted. The strike is ending a little less than a month after the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) ratified its three-year contract with the studios after being on strike earlier this year.
Major studio reps most recently submitted their so-called “last, best, and final offer” to the union. Major concerns addressed included wage increases, bonuses, and AI (artificial intelligence) protections, which were similar to the items addressed in the WGA contract.
If the board signs the deal later this week, then it will move to the 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members, who will vote on whether to ratify the agreement. Then everyone can get back to work as usual. Studios were eager to end the strike in early November, hoping to avoid extensively delaying shows and films slated for 2024 and 2025. 
The actors strike began on July 14. It is estimated to have cost Southern California more than $6.5 billion and 45,000 entertainment industry jobs, Deadline noted.
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher reacted positively to the news. 
&#8220;We did it!!!!&#8221; the former star of &#8220;The Nanny&#8221; wrote on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzaC3W3RG47/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=cf9cbc80-97ca-4e79-aba8-099fef8dc165">Instagram</a> Wednesday. &#8220;The Billion+ $ Deal! 3X the last contract! New ground was broke everywhere!”
Drescher went on to thank union members &#8220;for hanging in and holding out for this historic deal.”
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Actors Harris Dickinson and Zac Efron were told the news while walking the red carpet for the premiere of the movie, &#8220;The Iron Claw.&#8221; Their reactions were recorded in real-time.
&#8220;You&#8217;re joking, don&#8217;t tell me that now,&#8221; Dickinson <a href="https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1722423367234412771">told</a> a reporter from Deadline. The actor then moved as if he was leaving the premiere. &#8220;Let&#8217;s get out of here and get back to work,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s go!&#8221; Efron said.
“The Bear” actor Jeremy Allen White was also told at the “Iron Claw” premiere event. &#8220;That&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;It makes me feel incredible. I don&#8217;t know the details of the deal but I&#8217;m sure that SAG got what we wanted, what they wanted.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m just so glad that the industry can start up again, it&#8217;s exciting for sure,&#8221; White continued.

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The actors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/strike">strike</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hollywood">Hollywood</a> has been dragging on for so long that now SAG-AFTRA is advertising collectible merchandise. 
Union leaders are currently reviewing what’s been described as the studios’ “last, best, and final offer” to finally end the 115-day-long strike.
No meetings are currently scheduled to discuss the latest offer as the union doesn’t know how long they’ll need to review the terms. “There’s a lot to digest here,” a guild insider told <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/11/actors-strike-final-offer-under-review-1235593669/">Deadline</a>. “This simply takes time to review and to respond.”
SAG-AFTRA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">picket lines</a> are still scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles and New York, and the union introduced collectibles for members who show up. 
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Gotta collect &#39;em all! Join us on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SagAftraStrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SagAftraStrike</a> picket lines in NY and LA to snag these collectible buttons. Get one from each picket location while supplies last! 🎉💛 <a href="https://t.co/qmW5yXlbPs">pic.twitter.com/qmW5yXlbPs</a>
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“Gotta collect &#8217;em all! Join us on the #SagAftraStrike picket lines in NY and LA to snag these collectible buttons. Get one from each picket location while supplies last!” SAG-AFTRA posted on social media on Sunday. The accompanying photo showed an array of colorful buttons for members to wear while picketing.
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“Star Trek” actor Zachary Quinto publicly stated his support for SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher as she remains the face of the strike. 
“You are in an impossibly difficult position right now — and you are bearing up with grace and dignity and power and I am so impressed with how you handled yourself — and this negotiation — every step of the way,” the actor <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzR90PBPQ9U/">share</a>d on Instagram. 
“The AMPTP is trying to capitalize on fatigue and harness pressure from the industry at large (agencies and studios especially) to break our resolve and have you and your incredible negotiating committee accept whatever it is they’ve thrown at us and say thank you,” he added. “Their decision to use ‘last best and final’ language in their most recent counter proposal tips their hand and shows that they are relying on intimidation and not fairness to bring this strike to an end.”
The studios have been eager to resolve the strike by the end of October or early November, the outlet noted, to help increase chances that movies and television shows scheduled to premiere in 2024 won’t be delayed. Industry experts had hoped that the WGA strike resolution would help inspire a similar outcome with the SAG-AFTRA strike, but so far, that hasn’t been the case.

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Teachers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/portland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland</a> kicked off a strike on Wednesday, walking off the job and closing schools for about 45,000 students.
The Portland Association of Teachers, which represents more than 4,000 teachers in the area, is complaining about salaries, large class sizes, and not enough resources.
There are no classes, even online instruction, during the strike.
The teachers union has been bargaining with the district for months after its contract expired in June. The union said this is the first time teachers have gone on strike in the Portland school district.
Meanwhile, Portland Public Schools claims it does not have enough funds to give the union what it wants despite Oregon&#8217;s record $10.2 billion K-12 budget for the next two years. The district said the union&#8217;s demands would cost hundreds of millions of dollars more and mean staffing cuts as well.
“Funding has not kept pace with the needs of our students, nor our educators,” Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero said Wednesday. “We strive to offer a compensation that attracts and retains talent. But unlike a private organization, we don’t have record profits we can tap into.”
Salary is one of the main sticking points between the district and the union. The district&#8217;s annual base salary is about $50,000, although the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/portland-oregon-teachers-strike.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a> salary for a Portland teacher is $87,000, according to the district, which is slightly above the median income for a single person in the area.
The union has asked for a roughly 20% salary increase over three years, while the district has suggested offering about half that much.
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Teachers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/us/portland-oregon-teachers-strike.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> they are working overtime to handle their workload as students&#8217; academic and mental health needs have spiked since the pandemic. The union is asking for more time for teachers to plan lessons.
On Friday, the district and the union are set to meet with a state mediator together, the superintendent said.
Declining enrollment is another factor as the Portland district has lost close to 3,000 students since the pandemic, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/teachers-strike-portland-oregon-7c437cefd322b19c1d915a1a32431781" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to state data.
The Portland strike is the latest of several school worker strikes in large cities this year.
In March, Los Angeles school workers in the country&#8217;s second-largest public school district <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/25/business/la-school-strike-growing-trend/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walked</a> off the job, shutting schools for about a half million students for three days. The workers, which included teachers&#8217; aides, cafeteria employees, and custodians, were demanding better pay and that the district hire more people.
Then in May, teachers, librarians, counselors, and other workers went on strike in Oakland in the Bay Area for about two weeks. That union demanded higher pay, as well as housing assistance for homeless students and reparations for black students. The strike shut down the city’s public schools, and the district eventually <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/striking-oakland-teachers-district-reach-agreement-on-four-common-good-issues/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caved</a> on the union’s housing assistance demand.
Back in September, the Portland teachers union <a href="https://freebeacon.com/policy/portland-teachers-threaten-school-shutdown-if-their-district-declines-to-provide-subsidized-housing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to strike over subsidized housing for poor students as well.
The teacher strikes also come amid cost of living woes this year, especially in bigger cities, due to skyrocketing inflation.

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