The Profane 78-Year-Old Leading the Dockworkers Strike – WSJ

Harold Daggett stood in front of the closed gates at the Port of New York and New Jersey just after midnight Tuesday and delivered a battle cry to hundreds of members of his union that represents port workers from Maine to Texas.

We re going to show these greedy bastards you can t survive without us! Daggett shouted to cheers from the crowd in a speech filled with profanities and warnings about the threats automation poses to workers.

The midnight rally showcased the pugnacious leadership style of the 78-year-old chief of the International Longshoremen s Association. In his fourth term as president, Daggett is leading the union into its most militant stance yet after decades of combative, bare-knuckles contract battles with ocean carriers.

via www.wsj.com

For heaven’s sake, just buy out the thugs and replace them with robots. This is embarrassing.