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Note how there’s no discussion of what this port workers want is anywhere in the FT article. I dug around a bit, and apparently they want a significant raise over the next 6 year contract.
Top-scale port workers now earn a base pay of $39 an hour, or just over $81,000 a year.
Seems pretty reasonable, weird how the reasons for the strike are pretty much never discussed in the media.
People read FT for line go up, so worker demands ought to be relevant.
$81,000 × 75% × 25,000 ≈ 1.5 billion
That’s just base rate. About a third of them make ~150% more. So they want over two billion more per year total.exactly
