How to get decent wages?

 

Lithuanian prices are at the level of Western countries, wages are twice less though. This is not good for everybody. Employers complain that workers do not want to work for such pay. Lithuanian employers raise wages, but necessarily less than the rise in prices. Otherwise, buying a new luxury car can become unrealistic. How to change it? Let's learn from Western countries. Let's learn from Western countries.

 

"A new wave of job actions halted cargo operations across major West Coast ports, with dockworkers effectively shutting down the Port of Oakland for a time and hampering handling at some of the country's busiest trade gateways in an escalating confrontation with employers over long-running contract talks.

The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents West Coast terminal operators, said Friday that dockworkers were "staging concerted and disruptive work actions" that had stopped or severely disrupted operations stretching from terminals at Southern California's big container port complex at Los Angeles and Long Beach to Seattle.

Shipping industry officials said dockworkers failed to show up for work and slowed operations at the ports starting Thursday evening and continuing into Friday morning. "We are moving at half of the velocity that we normally operate with," an official at one cargo-handling terminal at Los Angeles-Long Beach said Friday.

Some terminals in Southern California opened Friday morning and then stopped accepting trucks a few hours later.

A spokeswoman for the Port of Oakland, the eighth-busiest container port in the U.S., said the port's international operations were closed Friday morning and that it was unclear if they would open for the afternoon.

The disruptions were the latest to hit the docks during coast-wide contract talks that have been going on for more than a year.

The employers and the dockworkers' union had reported progress in recent weeks, including an agreement on terms for the use of automation at the ports.

 

Shipping industry officials say relations deteriorated this past week as employers and the union struggled to reach a deal over wages." [1]

1. EXCHANGE --- Business News: Workers Disrupt West Coast Ports. Berger, Paul. 
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 03 June 2023: B.9.