Dems, Get Your Asses to the Port of L.A. - Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky

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Put down the pen, get on the road and show the American people who cares about the financial pain Trump is needlessly foisting on them.
Julie Roginsky
Apr 29, 2025

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Those unionized truckers are represented by The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which declined to endorse in last year’s presidential election because of heavy member support for Trump. Shortly after Trump’s tariff “Liberation Day,” the Teamsters fell in line to support the president’s tariff policies. Speaking of the impact Trump’s tariffs will have on truck drivers, Gene Seroka, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said, “instead of moving international containers, they may slide over and try to move domestic product. They may move U.S. mail, FedEx, UPS product. So you’ll see folks that have to scramble pretty quickly to keep their jobs and keep food on the table. It’s going to be disruptive.”

The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents dock workers across the United States, also declined to endorse in last year’s presidential election. After Trump’s victory, its president issued a fawning press release, in which the ILA’s president addressed Trump directly and said, “You have proven yourself to be one of the best friends of working men and women in the United States.” The press release noted that “the union now regards President Donald Trump as one of the greatest friends of Organized Labor and champion of the working men and women of this country.”

How quickly the leopard ate the ILA’s face. Yesterday, the union blasted Trump’s tariffs. “The reality is clear: these tariffs don’t put ‘America First’ — they put American working people last. They will kill jobs, raise costs, and fuel economic instability that will ripple through every community in this country.”

What’s worse is that the true impact of Trump’s disastrous tariff policies have yet to be felt. The true pain will likely start to be felt next week. By the first week of May, there will be a 44% drop in freight vessels from China arriving in Southern California. That means fewer longshoremen unloading fewer containers, fewer truckers hauling goods to fewer storage facilities and fewer products arriving on store shelves.

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