Baltimore Port Workers Are Reeling. Will Anyone Listen?
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- Thousands of workers are still out of work weeks after the Baltimore bridge collapsed. Mainstream news is focusing on how the tragedy will affect the supply chain and the stock market. We went to Baltimore to see how it’s affecting port workers and their families.
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Less than 2000 people and the government can't help? Meanwhile they bail out big business left and right. This is BS.
Government is too busy giving out money for failed wars, banning tiktac, and reauthorizing spying.
Almost like politicians are incentivised to work with corporations and not people. Just look at the limits on payouts.
Yes, but just think of the stock buy backs the bailouts will pay for!
@@unoriginalname4321 And guess who often has investments in these companies or receives campaign contributions from them? It's all of Congress.
90 billion to go overseas though
We the taxpayers have almost no say in what is happening with our tax money
Ya, Biden did a knee jerk reaction of: the federal government will pay for a new bridge before even going after the ship's insurance.
That's because we are slaves.
@@dannydaw59 I would rather my tax dollars paying for something like this, then being sent over to fix the rest of the worlds problems... Taxes pay for it NOW, then attempt to get the insurance company to pay later. (you know they will drag that out for YEARS)
You will own nothing and be happy quit chirping
The hole system is rigged. Can’t impeach the president, can’t get rich ( with out screwing someone ) pitiful
The guy talking about how companies don't realize how people are putting their lives on the line: Oh, they realize. They know. They just don't care.
They have separate funds to deal with us "poors"
I remember seeing the news right when this happened and they were so worried about the lost money. No one in the news seemed to give a damn about the workers that DIED.
But we have over $178 billion to support nationalist in ukraine?
Build Back Better' 😂
Nothing stops the military industrial complex
@@Sludge73 run by the small hats
Hyperbole! It was ONLY hundreds of billions.
MUST BE MAGA
If your company owns a vehicle and that vehicle is 100% responsible for damage and loss of life, guess what? That's your company's responsibility. 100%.
and thats why prices go up while wages stay low to have money for "accidents"
No one is saying otherwise, but investigations and insurance claims take time.
@@jennifertarin4707 Well, Maersk apparently is
@@SgtJoeSmith ~ If this event was not an “accident,” then the Collective We have an International Incident on the tables of multiple corporations & countries ~ Divert a little of those Trillions going to Ukraine etc ~
also the city for not installing concrete dolphins to protect the supports after many many years of global lessons to look at like the sunshine skyway collapse. both parties cheaping out to save a buck caused all this.
Francis Scott Key was the man who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner". This tragic event truly symbolizes what's happening in this country.
Yup.
Kinda like what happened in EAST PALESTINE?..
@@AffectionateBrain-yf4sq Department of Transportation is currently being sued by RFL Jr for that incident. Let's hope they see some serious repercussions
@@AffectionateBrain-yf4sq RFK Jr is currently litigating on that issue against the D.O.T right now. Let's hope we see justice
@@BazookaTooth707 Unfortunately I think RFK Jr. is compromised. I think pretty much any politican that gets to that level only gets there cause the deepstate allows it. It's sad too... Because he is right on about alot of stuff.
For mainstream media, the PEOPLE's misery is already water under the profit bridge. 😢😪
YOU are the only one reporting this side of the story!!!!
The emptiness on the roads is an eerie feeling.
MUCH MUCH love from Baltimore
I appreciate this channel running these stories to make sure that all the workers are taken care of.
I imagine the employers of people that had commutes that relied on that bridge all have an attitude of 'well, you'll just need to leave earlier and find another way around' type attitude.
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much of a powerhouse John has been on the channel recently? Obviously it takes a village and everyone who participates in making these videos reality are invaluable, it's just hard not to notice his reoccurrence. The striving for quality journalism is forever appreciated!
Came here to say much the same. I've been very impressed by his work on this channel.
I've been hooked on John's reporting for a while now. He didn't used to do so many videos (it used to be more of the snarky girl who does the shorts), but I think MPU realized that there's a lot of interest in someone just sitting and talking to working people, and John is so good at it.
Really well done. My question is how is it that the shipping company is able to weasel out of these costs? Where is our leadership to hold them accountable?
What leadership? Sadly, I don’t believe America has any, especially for hard-working Americans like the port-workers left w/o a way to feed their families.
We don't have "Leadership" here in the United States of America. We have Government employees who serve themselves, instead of the American people and THAT is thee number one problem we face and have faced for decades already. Many say they love our country but how can they when they act like this starting in Congress and the courts?
I’ve been involved in cleaning up several tornado damage but I can’t imagine what the cleanup and salvage crews are going through.
Hope these People get the help they deserve and they find a meaningful, fulfilling job (again) soon. 🙏🙏
You've been killing it lately and as an IBEW electrician (L.U. 6, SF, CA), I think that killer jeans jacket is part of it.
All power flows from the IBEW jacket. Although I wouldn't turn down a Teamster or UAW rag.
Some teamster swag would be cool
Condolences to the famlies.
The American dream is really a nightmare
especially if you hire employees
Legal criminals, robber barons, frat jocks, power hungry cults of personality.
It doesn't matter what crime is committed. Crimes against humanity are done all the time, and the crawling speed of the law is designed to allow those criminals to find another whole in the laws to crawl under. Taking all that capital along with them in secret.
They fragment their treasure overseas or in random assets to not get caught.
Nancy Pelosi's father sent a ship called "The Exodus" out of the Baltimore Harbor and "the Jewish Exodus from the Muslim world" is what followed. Baltimore has ALWAYS been corrupt and is currently not paying any of it's local vendors. The city is VACANT compared to what is was when I was a kid and the FACT that Donald Trump began selling the "American" Bible the next day can NOT go unnoticed.
Thank you to the port workers and im sorry for the loss of life and property. Etc.
How is it that no media has investigated the shipping company's liability or their insurance?
What?
There is nothing like American greed. And unfortunately greed always wins.
Exactly, unions are so greedy they are helping make China great. Running all of our jobs overseas. Genius. SMH. Don't worry, they'll gladly replace you all with immigrants.
The greed is the same everywhere among the elites of industry and politics. It's just that if it happens in America you might actually hear about what happened. Most places in the world can just easily sweep massive catastrophes under the rug.
Excellent piece of journalism!
Emergency SNAP to ALL affected citizens and allowed them to be used for takeout and deliveries from restaurants, & prepared foods. Suspend all debt payment, freezing interest, allowing payments to principal. Also cover all health insurance premiums, remove deductions and copays. Get a Community Grief Team down there!
Dafuq??? Free groceries isn't good enough, they have to get restaurant food? I only splurge on restaurant food when I'm trying to get into a girl's 🍑
@@paulblichmann2791 Wow. thanks for a reply!
Follow the money! Say the SNAP is used in local restaurants with a discount to the peeps? AND the SNAP is redeemed with a premium to the providers?
This combines into a felt sense of real support, comforting, funnels more money into the local economy, to support the other businesses. In turn, everyone's needs are met with some grace.
& at the end of the day this is cheap! Gets big bang for the bucks.
As for your only... It is a big world. Restaurants, cafes, lunch counters, bars are places of social contact along a much broader range than to eat a peach or not.
Free mansions and free Ferraris! Build that bridge to the moon so we can have a moon port. Why not it's all monopoly money at this point.
@@terrysheppard194 You know all those fancy restaurants you don't go to unless it is part of a seduction? Those are supported through tax deductions. You/we're paying for it. And those items you listed, even the 'bridge to the moon' is also all directly or indirectly paid for through our taxes. And of the $Billons invested in rebuilding, how many ferraris will be bought by execs and stockholders? While they redirect funds that could have been used to support Us, you know the Citizens Paying the taxes and DOING the work to pay for it.
Yassss❤
Why are any of the families affected in ANY financial way? I thought WE were paying for it all? Im more than happy to have our Government Give every one of these families funds to continue to survive financially and focus on their lost family members and their lost income… far more than giving it to ANYONE ELSE … SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE, WITH OUR MONEY, before you give it to another country and support their financial needs
Imo the company that destroyed the bridge or their insurance should be paying the people who are out of work because of their screw up accidental or otherwise until those people can return to work. Like the fact that we're having to have these discussions, & have to go through courts & the government when a boat with their branding took out a bridge, 6 peoples lives, & almost 2000 jobs is wild.
Everyone got lucky because most of the east coast US salvage equipment was stationed within sight of the FSK bridge and the first 2 small channels were made to help these crane barges to get from one side of the fallen bridge to the other. Also the old Bethlehem Steel plant used to be right down there so there was a place really close to bring the bridge debris. If everything goes well the port should be back up within the next 2 weeks. Sadly it is going to take YEARS to rebuild this bridge so truck traffic will still be a mess as will both tunnels for awhile, but the port will be fully running again very soon so it shouldn't take too much to carry all of these people through.
I feel the reporting being almost 4 weeks old should have a disclaimer that ilthe information is that old, this was kind of misleading, should have been published by April 9 since he mentioned his time being there was about April 5
wish everybody connected with this tragedy well, all the families that are impacted, who lost somebody, everybody, good vibes to you all.
another well done report. appreciate it.
I hardly think the government can tell you they cant help while sending billions overseas.
Larry Hogan is also to blame for this. When he was the Governor of Maryland, he allowed bigger ships to enter the Port of Baltimore, despite safety warnings regarding the bridge and the people working in the port.
And now he wants to run for Senate. He's hoping that everyone forgets that he played a role in the collapse of the bridge happening.
People today have short memories, but the Internet never forgets.
While I was no Hogan fan, I don't think it's fair or in good taste to try and blame Hogan for this tragedy. If you actually look back to 2017, when the regulations were changed, it had full support of the MD legislature. It was also deemed necessary as ships sizes were at that point 1,500 times larger than they were in 1968 when construction of the bridge began. Even by the time construction ended and the bridge opened ships had quadrupled in size since 1968. The fact is tankers and container ships were being constructed much larger in 2017 than they were in 1968 or 1977. The Key bridge was still suitable to allow these ships to pass under it. The bill was to dredge the canal to allow these ships to enter it. The only detail I recall that was going to detrimental at the time was the loss of sea life, like crabs/clams etc and how that would effect the MD economy.
I just hate when someone takes a tragedy like this and "spins" it as a political statement. It's a big problem in our society when political views overshadow lives.
Great video! One aspect that I think was omitted is the army of folks from out of town who left their families to come work around the clock to get the bridge cleared and the port back open. Demolition crews, Coast Guard personnel, salvage teams, etc… They are making great strides to get the port open and the local folks back to work
Amen. The cleanup is happening with record speed and they are even ahead of original projections for end date of cleanup. They have a new channel opened up and can already start getting some larger ships in and out. They expect to have the port completely open by end of May and at the rate they've all been working, it could possibly even be sooner than that.
First person to show that’s my mom you go girl
great video, thank you for covering their perspective!
That bridge went down like it was made of toothpicks.
Boston never bothered to harden the areas around the supports that would have prevented the ship from hitting them.
any bridge would have if it was hit by a floating city but its just the nature of that type of bridge
@@zachmoyer1849 I'm no engineer but it went down quick. I guess you should also plan for accidents like this. So thankful they were able to mostly clear the bridge before it fell.
@onlymebaby.9249 An engineer I listened to said it hit at a crucial point which made it fall so fast. Most bridges have piers surrounding the supports of bridges so watercraftt would hit that and not the bridge.
@@TheQueenRulesAll damn expensive oversight.
This was not an accident. It was done to upset supply chains and cause chaos.
Power to the people ✌️
Just a suggestion to look at some other shipping news, who are tracking the clean up efforts not just to get the supply chain working, but to get the port and all of the workers there in Baltimore working. People are listening.
These people have pointed out many times (as I've watched them) how these workers all came to work during the pandemic, so now they should be getting help while not working. I heard them point this out a couple of weeks ago.
Seems that they barely skimmed the news in mentioning about yhose men that died. It's mentioned like an afterthought.
I've watched every press conference, the whole process has nor forgotten about any life
Your videos bring attention to important issues! Thanks for your hard work!
This is how I felt working in medical devices. Convince the doc to use your devices, regardless of whether or not the patient needs it. In fact, it's YOUR job to convince the doc WHY he "needs" to put it in that patient... When you say NO -they fire you
John Russell is doing some of the best journalism and community connecting I have ever seen.
I'm still amazed they didn't have tug boats to aid these ships safely out of Port and into the great big sea 😮.
Normalize active unions and local worker, utility and housing cooperatives. Preserve democracy. There Ⓐre more of us☭🌎🌍🌏then there are billionaires and corrupt politicians.
Piku, we talked about this, remove the hammer and sickle. It destroys your message.
@@splatzec Honestly. Funnily enough there are libertarians that agree with and support unions. Some of the most capitalist countries have strong worker rights and union support. You can have BOTH.
Socialism destroyed the lives of many who lived under it. And those who opposed it.
Piku
To continually post the same message, regardless of its relevance, diminishes its impact. I have seen you post the same message more than 100 times.
My Ukrainian grandmother was only about 8 or 9 years old when Communists stole her parents' family farm. Her mother snatched her, and joined her husband and they fled to the Carpathian Mountains. After 8 to 9 terrible years of hiding in fear of Communist spies, they escaped to America and freedom. My grandmother told me about some of the terrors she had experienced first-hand under Communism. She warned me never to support socialism either, since socialism is the prelude for Communism. That is what the hammer and sickle really mean.
@GoldenTV3 in my experience, libertarians are just embarrassed Republicans.
In regards to the destruction of people's lives;
A) You must mean the wealthy that were interested in protecting themselves over supporting the people that allowed them to rise to power.
B) Or the authoritarian dictators that backdoored the principles of socialism to get to the top and then proceeded to comment A
You gotta support the bottom of the totem pole if you want the pole to stand upright. Money us a tool, it's not good to covet it.
Our best bet is to have a socio-capitalist society that limits the guys on top and supports the folks on the bottom. Else you end up with runaway capitalism like we are experiencing in America
Thank you.
Damn dude, your reporting personally is on point lately. You're all over the place dropping sick stories. Weren't you down in Georgia like yesterday?
God bless the port workers of Baltimore and all those affected by this tragedy!
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That’s sad for the workers.
ILA STRONG stay strong brothers and sisters & prayers for the families who lost a loved one.
💪🏾🫡
Absolutely devastating
Work is so slow,that my local’s president lol GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!
As with every tragedy- there's an opportunity for big business and big government to show some compassion and really make a difference. Let's see what they do...
No one have given us truck drivers penny money
You have the ability to go work somewhere else if you don’t like trucking just like the 100s of truckers who got out of a truck to go where they are valued.
America is falling apart. Look at Boeing
American's NEED to stand together and force those in power to do the right thing! The company responsible need to pay out the full loss of life and damages. Period!!
Frank Sabotka with the 20-year “I told you so”
The lives we lost vs pokets !! She spoke volumes and its the truth of the financial world we live in that doesn't value lives. My condolences to all the people who lost these loved ones. ❤ Thank you for sharing the truth of how Baltimore, Md was deeply effected by this.
Watched the zoomed in footage of the collapse. Seen the road workers vehicles come down with the bridge, my heart sank. Its different seeing it from a distance, but they couldn't do anything to avoid it. It's terrible 😔.
The people of Hawaii feel you ❤
Great video.
praying for these people
God bless you all
What makes me MAD is the fact the owner of the ship & the company does not half to pay anything which is BS! So its on all the citizens that we pay for it! against BS!
Considering this this Was Another event of internal Malicious Intent, our govt should be on top of it!
Thanks for the report from my local area. I hope that those workers are taken care of properly, but I do not hold the highest of hopes.
The people that own that ship are 100% responsible for everybody that is affected by it
I have friends who are workers in the port and they are not hurting as much as you might think. They have private job insurance which protects them as well as the fact that the port will be paying them unemployment insurance. They may not be making the $200K they were but they are not going without either.
It's such crap that people even need to donate anything: The government should be there taking care of the people that pay them to have the privilege of serving this country, not starve to death under the weight of loans because they aren't wealthy enough to matter.
I think its productivity is overrated.
Liability should not be limited! Only full accountability is acceptable!
Clear the damage and keep the port open. They are trying to starve us out.
They don't care, never have, never will. Act accordingly.
This is so sad.
2:10 I need that shirt
What about your union? Don’t you pay dues? Ask them.
Unions are the most cropped entity in the US
Yes, it’s horrible that six people lost their lives … loved ones, friends, family members … but a business has tens if not hundreds of thousands of other lives to also look after. The global supply chain cannot just simply stop because six ppl lost their lives … the company executives have to do what they do, as does EVERYONE ELSE all the way down to the grieving family members.
NO ONE or the government DID ANYTHING to
Help the people of Ohio (train derailment) OR
the people of Lahaina NOTHING, NOT 1 THING
"Jose. Can u see" a Francis Scott key bridge. Get it? 🤣 🤣 🤣
And that is just one bridge collapse
Imagine a war on US soil bridges towers interstate etc
Everyone north of that bridge are working class. They have to add hours to their commute now. RIP to the workers on the bridge.
The rest of the story, California has been making the west coast ports un usable and most traffic has been heading into the gulf, Florida, and Baltimore . Now Baltimore is closed buckle up for rough summer. 😢
Different union out there but you are right about that
They see it as a supply chain disruption, not as the casualty and disaster it is. Can we redirect some of that foreign aid?
IMO, they should just re-open the port and refrain from building another bridge that could get wrecked again.
I also think the power out 'accident' on the boat, which then sped toward the center strut looked awfully suspect.
Why is no one talking about why that ship was too big to go under the bridge in the first place?
To the families,friends of road crew. CONDOLENCES IN YOUR LOSS 😢 ! To the dock workers ❤ The corps. having terminals there STAND TALL! It's about the people insuring getting your products onloaded,offloaded keeping global economy moving! You've benifited tremendously of what has been orcastrated to create! Joey pull out your personal checkbook!!!! Not just grandstanding on the soapbox! To get re-elected !!!!!! Shipping Co. negligence ship was not sea worthy! 42 mil. Claim limit cap? Won't even cover cost of bridge rebuild let alone lives lost, dock employees downtime,salvage operations,public dollars of various govt.entidies doing what should be done correctly from time of collision to upgrade of safety measures, procedures in ports of OUR NATION! ONE AMERICAN VOICE SPEAKING FOR MY COUNTRY! I❤
Why are my tax money paying for this accident? The families should also be compensated. There is no way to compensate for loss of life.
MPU always cooking that gas
This is making me picture that last scene from Fight Club...Not sure why
Take charge, confiscate the dalie.
Come On Where are the Construction Unions, Bridge Builders Unions. Its PAST Time for ALL American UNIONS to WORK Together. Rebuild the Bridge. Nothing Worthwhile is Easy. The OFFICERS of these Unions Put Aside YOUR Differences and Do This LEGALISM BE DAMNED
The entire port of Baltimore is ILA international longshormans union.
Wrong
To the black lady yes we lost more then 6 workers on that bridge but us port workers are now suffering as well and could lose everything we have worked for up til we lost our jobs.
Yes, can you investigate the service industry even more? Not even the tipping stuff, but it's so unstable in general. So many laws broken, so much loss because no sick pay, ect.
5:32 THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYIN ‼️ 🗣️
Amen. Just look how it's been for the last 8 years.
Government? You mean cartel. I was born in Baltimore at the same time that bridge was being built and my name is similar to that ship. Worrisome because my license has my weight as 147 lbs and my date of birth is the exact amount of time the ship lost power. Hope the warlocks who work for the fedcartel weren’t sending a spell out to me but they missed so yes the fedcartel should step up and cover living expenses for all of Baltimore. To the lost lives I send protection prayers over your family☮️❤️
Jesus Christ it's sad some people lost their life, but people die tragically everyday.😱🇺🇸
Unfortunately for maritime laws involving liability from the company that ultimately caused this disaster there's no financial solution via lawsuit.
If everyone only knew Maritime is applied on land now. Your All CAPS name your strawman is considered a dead man at sea. That's how the courts trap ya with a bonded dead at sea entity they created at birth.
The insurance companies have agreed to 44 million. How any findings of negligence might affect that is unclear.
@@1972Ray Well the owners of the boat immediately called Yahtzee or whatever it is and was immediately limited to their liability
@@Mike__Bthey asked for it the judge would have to have granted it
It is just mind boggling that a port of the magnitude of Baltimore can be closed by an accident-waiting-to-happen like this rickety bridge. Other major harbours have tunnels crossing the harbour entrance or high rise well constructed concrete bridges fortified against ship collisions like this.
It shows just how sh¡tty US infrastructure really is. I am sure that the financial impact of this bridge collapse will cost more than a tunnel or even just a decent modern bridge that is fortified against ship collisions.
not only should the ships owner (or their insurance) pay for the lives that this accident caused but all of the unemployment to the out of work people from the closed port.
Maersk needs to be held responsible for all the lives and jobs impacted.
I ASSUMED, but didn't look into it yet: The ship was crashed by the harbor pilot who was a Baltimore port worker.