LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.
Good for the crane operators but the truckers are really getting screwed over.
This article reminds me of the toxic dynamic between Grubhub/Doordash drivers and cooks at my restaurant job. Grubhub has a tendency to send the drivers to pick up the orders too early, so their deliveries aren't done when they arrive. A lot of the time the drivers blame us even though it's not our fault, and they start to get pissy and rude towards us. This causes the restaurant staff to resent the drivers, not only because they're rude to us but also because we don't get any tips from Grubhub/Doordash so fulfilling those orders is just extra work and stress for no extra pay.
There seems to be an insidious dynamic within the gig economy that pits waged/salaried employees and "independent contractors" against each other, and it is making solidarity and class unity harder to achieve.
They’ve succeeded so well in atomizing and dividing us. It’s all just so fucked :(
Nothing lasts forever, not even the bad shit. We’ll end it ourselves if we have to.
Drivers in my area are grabbing food and canceling the orders.
Praxis