# All this panic. (Dockworkers strike)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-this-panic-dockworkers-strike/1008420>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 3, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-this-panic-dockworkers-strike/1008420 "2024-10-03T19:57:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-this-panic-dockworkers-strike/1008420/41 "2024-10-05T20:25:33Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> Neither is imported.

> [@Telemark](#):
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> We don’t import TP.

Yes, over 90%, maybe 99% of toilet paper is made right here in the good old US of A. Dockworkers could go on strike until the year 2100 and there wouldn’t be a shortage.

[quote=“Snarky\_Kong, post:15, topic:1008420”]  
The head of the union is apparently a big Trump supporter that announced a year ago that he was going to try to influence the election.  
[/quote][Harold Daggett - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett)

_Daggett is a critic of the [Joe Biden administration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden), and in 2024 he threatened to “cripple” the American economy before the [November election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_elections) via an ILA strike at ports on the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf Coasts.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-:0-6)[[10]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-10) Daggett was a lead figure in the strike, which began on October 1, 2024.[[4]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-:1-4) It was the first port strike on the East Coast since 1977.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-Gibson-11) The ILA demanded a pay raise and a freeze to automation at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. Longshoremen earned a top wage of $39 per hour (average American hourly wage was $28.34 at the time) and under Daggett’s proposed contract, that top wage would have been moved to $69 per hour with a roughly 60% increase in pay over 6 years.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-12)[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-13) The ILA also demanded a 77% increase in wages over a six-year contract.[[11]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-Gibson-11)_

_In a house-produced video posted to the ILA’s YouTube channel, Daggett said “I will cripple you, and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does,” he explained:_

_The Justice Department has lost two cases against Daggett, in which he was accused of being an associate of the [Genovese crime family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovese_crime_family).[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Daggett#cite_note-:2-9)_

> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> My anger was mostly about what I thought was a political tactic. Since it seems not to be the case (or am I speaking too soon again?) then yeah, negotiate for what you can get.

Yes, it was political.

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**Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-this-panic-dockworkers-strike/1008420/42 "2024-10-06T13:04:48Z")

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And Baseball too!

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