{"id":295,"date":"2024-10-04T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:00:24","slug":"president-of-the-longshoremans-union-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"President of the Longshoreman&#8217;s Union (ILA); nice work if you can get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the port strike is over and looks like the longshoreman did well; <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/port-strike-update-dockworkers-join-other-unions-trying-fend-off-automation-minimize-impact\/15388724\/\">Dockworkers strike suspended, tentative agreement includes 62% pay raise over 6 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So maybe this guy is worth his pay?<\/p>\n<p>From the WSJ &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/harold-daggett-international-longshoremens-association-strike-union-ports-6e31a772?mod=MorningEditorialReport&amp;mod=djemMER_h\">Bentley Drivers of the World, Unite! Meet the union boss making $900,000 who shut down U.S. ports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr. Daggett could have been a character from the 1950s movie classic \u201cOn the Waterfront.\u201d While presenting himself as a man of the people, the union chief made more than $900,000 last year. <span style=\"display: unset;\"><a class=\"css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0\" data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/NYT\">The New York Times<\/a><\/span> reported in 2017 that he owned a 76-foot yacht and rode around in a Bentley luxury car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the port strike is over and looks like the longshoreman did well; Dockworkers strike suspended, tentative agreement includes 62% pay raise over 6 years So maybe this guy is worth his pay? From the WSJ &#8211; Bentley Drivers of the World, Unite! Meet the union boss making $900,000 who shut down U.S. ports. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7077,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/7077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}