Lazy crane operators making $250k a year exacerbating port crisis, truckers say

This is a propaganda piece trying to distract people from the real causes, which are about not investing in adequate capacity and not hiring enough people.

Encouraging the workers to fight between each others or against poorer people is an age old distraction tactic in a crisis.

and at the end the real reason.

> “They have to hire extra men to work the cranes and don’t want to do it,” Tessier said. “There are a lot of things [terminal operators] could do but don’t do because it costs extra money. Shows how concerned they are about their customers.”

The truckers are hit because they are paid by deliveries and delays are causing time with no income or penalties. Capitalism says they should adjust, either negotiate better conditions or accept/go out of business...

Funny how unionized crane operators do not have this issue.

Sounds like what's really needed is a competing port a few hundred miles down the coast.

And that competing port can use all automated cranes so there are very few super highly paid union workers.

Are the unions still Mafia (literally) owned? That would explain the salaries and deliberate slowness (perhaps someone has to pay to speed things up...).

https://nypost.com/2012/03/05/cushy-low-show-jobs-for-mafia-...

Do people intentionally link to Yahoo aggregation versions of stories from 'dodgy' sources? The headline is pretty bad on its own, but combined with Washington Examiner as a source, you know what you're going to get.