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by mothballed 25 days ago
This guy is a "vampire CEO." He isn't a dockworker, lmao, those are the people he is parasitic off of. He's a union boss lording over the dockworkers threatening to pull them off the job, basically the CEO of the union. That's the hilarious part. He's effectively a union CEO throwing a tantrum asking America not to upgrade the technology of their ports so he can become even richer. He goes out of his way to make clear he's not in it for the benefit of the workers, he brags about threatening to put construction workers out of the job so this top 1% union boss can become even more of a fat cat. There is nothing out of context, you can watch the entire thing if you like, he is straight up threatening to cripple the entire USA.

I don't give a shit a CEO or a dock worker has a rolex and a gold chain. I do care that they bling them out on TV while with their hand out for charity in the form of asking for Luddism. Probably not a smart move for that person pretending to be a broke charity case while also coming out with threats against everyone's livelihood.