• ddugue
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    1 year ago

    What are their demands (more or less exactly)?

    It’s always easier to defend those workers when we know their demands are reasonable (which most of the time, they are.)

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      1 year ago

      From their strike notice:

      Our Main Objectives are:

      • To stop the erosion of our work through Contracting Out
      • To protect current and future generations from the devastating impacts of Port Automation
      • To protect longshore workers from record High Inflation and sky rocketing Cost of Living
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        1 year ago

        Still a bit vague, but I hope it’s more useful when negotiating.

        If you say we want XX% raise it focuses the discussion too much on numbers and sometimes doesn’t address the true source of the problems