To be truthful I was using the word "pay" with regard to benefits as you had in your previous post, "total compensation" would be a better way of saying it. It wouldn't be dishonest if it said our total compensation was $# and it was actually correct, but when they give $147k as wages (which is complete BS) Then say and medical and pensions. They are talking about 3 different things all of which have an assigned value. The dishonesty comes in when they use an amount that isn't correct and is inflated.

Their claims about production loss do not even match their own statistics. In Tacoma they say vessel production is down 40-60%. When their own statistical graph shows the move counts going from 26 to 19 a 27% decline in production, more dishonesty.

Starting on 11/2/14 day shift through the night shift on 11/6/14 they unilaterally fired all longshore personnel between 2 and 4 hours into each shift. They fired units where production was normal or better than normal too. One of those nights we were 10 minutes from finishing the vessel I was working so that it could sail when they fired us. It made no sense. This really screwed up the logistics of the container yards. Depending on the equipment and layout of the yard, we found ourselves digging out a lot more cargo. As they would run out of room and cargo was coming in for new vessels it was getting stacked in front of and on top of containers for vessels that were calling first. When you have to constantly move several containers to get the ones you need it takes a toll on production. While there are still container flow problems from when the yards were full, there is now considerable space in the container yards. The congestion problem PMA claims is the reason they are only working days no longer exists, its now only a mixed cargo problem that could be fixed quickly by loading out that cargo.

Thats the background, that leads me to say as I did in my last post. We want to go to work to clear the backlog, but that requires them to hire us. It is impossible to make any headway by only working days. I'm not sure how that equates to not being willing to work to fix the problem.

Am I missing something?

JTD, I have another couple questions for you regarding your previous post. In that post I didn't read through the name calling to where you said the ILWU was resorting to extortion.

Do you consider the tactics used by The Boeing Company to fleece the state of Washington out of $9 billion in tax revenue, and get Boeing employees to agree to a concessionary contract in order to keep the jobs here in Washington extortion?

Do you have the same contempt for Boeing that you do for thew ILWU?

I'm particularly interested, because the department of revenue is going to want to make up that $9 billion. My guess, is they will be knocking on the doors of small business owners such as yourself with there hand out. IMO what Boeing did is extortion and to pass that cost along to other businesses is absurd. I don't need to study who it hurts before I decide that its wrong. Then 9 months later they announce 2,000 engineer jobs are leaving to the midwest. I guess $9 billion wasn't enough for them to keep their word. That is exactly the kind of double dealing we've been experiencing. I'm sorry if you can't understand that. The rules are different for the big guys.

I know your cherry picking points and trolling me a little bit. This is the last time I'll go down that road. If you have honest questions or want to have a civil dialogue about this I'll do my best to respond.