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Ports Reopen as Dockworkers Win Big Wage Increase - The Friday AM Quickie 10/4/24

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THE BIG NEWS

Dockworkers' Union Wins Wage Hike, Suspends Strike

The International Longshoremen's Association kicked off a strike on Tuesday that shut down East Coast ports the minute its 45,000 members walked off the job.

"We're not playing around," one union vice president told the Washington Post. "If we say we're going out, we're going out."

Yesterday, they essentially declared victory, suspending the strike and announcing a tentative deal with port and shipping bosses to increase wages by 62 percent, from $39 up to $63 per hour at the top of the pay scale.

Senior Biden administration officials, including Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, helped broker the deal. Business interests and Republicans were pressuring President Joe Biden to invoke the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to break the strike and force the longshoremen back to work. He refused, and called the labor movement's cause legitimate. Vice President Kamala Harris, on the campaign trail, echoed the sentiment.

"Collective bargaining works, and it is critical to building a stronger economy from the middle out and the bottom up," Biden said yesterday after the union announced its deal with the US Maritime Alliance.

The union's fight isn't over. The tentative deal doesn't resolve the problem of increasing automation in the shipping industry. And the strike has only been suspended until Jan. 15 – when the state of negotiations will be the president-elect's headache.

Future of Democracy Watch: Trump Will Deport Anyone He Doesn't Like

  • DOJ Swamped By More Than 2,000 Threats to Local Election Officials; GOP Has Hired More Than 100,000 Poll 'Observers' Donald Trump keeps screaming "ELECTION INTERFERENCE" as his party prepares to do just that; meanwhile, Kamala Harris campaigned with Republican Jan. 6 Committee vice chair Liz Cheney in Wisconsin yesterday. via the Washington Post, Politico, and NBC News.
  • 'You're a Charlatan': Colorado Judge Sentences Tina Peters, Crackpot GOP Elections Clerk, to 9 Years in Prison for Stealing Voting Security Data "Your honor, I don’t deserve to go into a prison where other people have committed heinous crimes," Peters tearfully begged to Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett. "I'm not a criminal. I have lived my life with faith and honesty." via the Denver Post and the Colorado Sun.
  • Trump Refused Disaster Relief to States With Too Many Democratic Voters at Least 3 Times While in Office Both Mark Harvey, Trump's senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, and Olivia Troye, former Trump White House homeland security adviser, say Trump is approaching Hurricane Helene with the same me-first mindset he brought to wildfires in California and other disasters during his tenure. via Politico.
  • White Supremacist Billionaire Elon Musk Took Extreme Steps to Conceal Tens of Millions of Dollars in Dark Money to Republicans Turning Point Action and Musk's America PAC are basically running Trump's get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states. via the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Politico.
  • Firefighters Union Leaders Vote Narrowly Not to Endorse Harris or Trump The 350,000-member International Association of Fire Fighters was early to endorse Joe Biden in 2019; the President had "decades-long ties" to the union's former leader, Harold Schaitberger, who stepped down in 2021. via HuffPost and Politico.
  • 'This War Must End, and It Must End Now': Walz Appeals to Muslim Voters "Some speakers on Thursday's call with Walz made it clear that their support for Harris comes with reservations, with one prominent Muslim Democrat saying voting for her was the 'least bad thing.'" via NBC News.
  • Fundamentalist Evangelicals Rally for 'Spiritual War' Against 'Satanic' Trump Opponents "Seven Mountain" Christian Dominionists are "not just spouting off or praying prayers," says Matthew Taylor, author of "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy." "They believe that they are changing reality" with group incantations pledging to "permanently control positions of influence and leadership" in government. via the Associated Press.
  • New York Republican Says His Michael Jackson Costume Wasn't Blackface, But Rather 'a Genuine Homage to My Musical Hero' Rep. Mike Lawler "burst onto the national stage in 2022 by defeating Sean Patrick Maloney, the chairman of House Democrats' national campaign operation, in a left-leaning district"; he is also an "ardent" fan of the late King of Pop. via the New York Times.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Israeli Military Orders Mass Evacuations in Southern Lebanon, But UN Peacekeepers Are Staying Put "Can you imagine being woken up by a blast, then told to evacuate within minutes?" says Dr. Tania Baban, who is working for an American humanitarian aid group in Beirut. "The horror of waking up your children and running away and leaving behind everything?" via the Washington Post, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
  • Hurricane Helene: At Least 213 Dead, More Than 200 Missing, Nearly 1 Million Without Power, and Almost Nobody Has Flood Insurance The storm also shut down the largest supplier of intravenous medical fluids in the US, prompting hospitals across the country to conserve supplies, in part by offering patients "Gatorade or plain water" instead of IVs. via the Post, Politico, and NBC News.
  • Britain Cedes Sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Former Colony, Mauritius The exception is the largest island, Diego Garcia, home to a British-American military base; Indigenous Chagossians complain they "have been consistently and deliberately ignored" throughout the sovereignty negotiations. via the AP and the Guardian.
  • Memphis Jury Convicts 3 Former Cops, Acquits 2, of Felony Charges Stemming from Tyre Nichols Killing Meanwhile in New York City, Gregory Delpeche, who suffered a brain injury when cops sprayed bullets around a Brooklyn subway platform while chasing a fare-beater, has sued the city over the officers' "carelessness and reckless disregard." via NBC News and the AP.

SOME NUMBER

$70,000

That's how much Pahrump, Nevada Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore, a Republican former lawmaker and Las Vegas city councilor, raised through a charity and her political action committee to build a statue honoring a police officer who was shot and killed on the job. But instead of funding the statue, state prosecutors say, Fiore "spent the donations on rent, plastic surgery and payments on her daughter's wedding." A jury yesterday found her guilty on federal conspiracy and wire fraud charges.

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PARTING WORDS

"I'm so sick and tired of this liberal bullsh*t! Why don't you go back where you came from?!"

-- Idaho Republican state Sen. Dan Foreman, in an angry racist outburst on Tuesday after a Democratic candidate, Trish Carter-Goodheart of the Nez Perce tribe, spoke about the presence of violent white supremacist groups in the state and its weak hate crime laws. As Boise State Public Radio notes, "Indigenous people, including the Nez Perce tribe, have lived in the Columbia River Basin for thousands of years. Foreman was born in Lake Forest, Illinois."

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