Washington State Ferries pushing for "cultural change" to solve worker shortage | FOX 13 Seattle
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Washington's ferry system has been hampered by delays and cancelations for months due to crew shortages. WSF is looking to drum up enrollment at the Seattle Maritime Academy, which provides a quarter of their engine room workers.
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Bullshit, I have an AB limited license to work on deck, wsf offers $19 per hour which is laughably low for the industry. Why would I work on a ferry for poverty wages when I could work for any tug company in Puget sound for twice that without even trying. Wsf needs to actually pay licenced guys a fair wage to fix the crew shortage.
Not too mention forced vaccinations
I'm pretty sure O/S starts at $23.01. I am an AB as well and was told $33 to start. I don't know where you get the $19
Well I know it starts out a little bit higher pay than 19 bucks but not much. What is it 21 or so an hour? The schedule sucks and it feels on purpose. You'll be on call with no guarantee of 40 hours a week for the first year or two. If you want a weekend off you have to work 10 days in a row. The hours are terrible. . The boats are archaic due to underfunding. You'll be routinely exposed to drug and psychotic problems from the passengers. Wading through constant bureaucratic red tape from the Coast guard. Zero support from WSF administrative staff.
helper wages at the shipyard that repairs those ferries are more than that.
@@9blucats That explains the whole maritime industry. I work on tugs in Alaska. Coast guard still has the red tape. You are considered a seasonal employee.
Was cultural change the plan all along? Because as far as I remember, the shortage had nothing to do with any cultural similarities.
We all know its about getting vaxxed.
We all know what will happen to anyone who caved and got jabbed.
Now... we wait for them to go.
When they're gone...
We go back to work.
Untill then...
Self employment is your only option.
Root cause is bad policies and politicians, self imposed problem. Just end Illogical and Segregationist Vax Mandates
God… this city just can’t get ANYTHING right.
Nor the state, but, then again remember who's governing both city and state.
Kanye West 2024
I owned a company that did work exclusively for airports. We had a fantastic reputation and 90% of our customers came to us. As usual, out of the blue one day we got an RFP for a project at the airport in Seattle.
RFP's are fairly standard with 95% of the typically 200 pages being boiler plate gibberish.
What stood out with the RFP from Seattle was that there was an additional nearly 100 pages that had nothing to do with anything other than dictating what type of employees we had to hire and how we had to treat them.
It required us to hire x number of ex-convicts. So many people with felony records. So many people without high school diplomas So many people taken from welfare rolls. So many people with physical and mental impairments. Not only did it dictate who we were supposed to hire but what type of benefits they were supposed to have and how much we were supposed to pay them.
The kicker in all of this was that no matter how many or what kind of problems they caused, there was no abatement to the contract. We as the company were fully responsible for anything the people they required us to hire caused.
My response… I promptly put it in a shredder and sent it back to them with a one page response with bold font saying fuck you.
If you didn't fire 180 people unconstitutionally you would be in better shape!! Not to mention who else would apply to a field where they could be fired for something similar later
I got an idea, quit being commies about the mandate.
Exactly my thought!
Forced vaccinations, mask mandates, and all the other stupid and insane restrictions during the virus; no wonder they lost crew!
Murica.
Or just open it up to a bright new work force that hasn’t had access to the opportunity.
You are correct.
Its the commie democrats plan to weed out conservatives and find the most loyal comrades.
Hey, crazy idea here... but why not get rid of your vaccine mandate and hire back those that were fired.
Well sir that would be the smartest and easiest way to fix the problem but liberal democrats don't use that philosophy , they use the Woke Meter philosophy.
Here's a fix for commuters. Leave Seattle. Best move I ever made. And if you leave, keep your left leaning views there .
I'm trying to get out but after Bush and almost losing my house and turning 70 this year I'm never going to get out of this hole. I'm beginning to understand those that are called Karen's. Maybe they should be called f****** sick and fed up with all this s***!
So they created their own staff shortage.
They sure did voluntarily got rid of a wonderful crew that knew what to do! Now we got a bunch of brain-dead cellphone zombies running around the boat like a bunch of monkeys what do I do what do I do what do I do
In the distant past the ferry system could get by with paying a little less than the rest of the maritime industry because the employees felt respected by management. They are now suffering the consequences of more recent years of a bloated management looking down their noses on their vessel employees and being adversarial whenever they could simply because they could. So now they can just deal with it, and it will take many years for them to begin to recover.
they can sink disrespecting employees like that
I was on the Ed/King run last week heading east. That day, there were more boats at dock than were operational. Last October, before the jab mandate went into effect we rarely had a cancellation, now it rarer that that we have two boats on that run more than once a week. Seems simple cause and effect
Crews are safer now, but it's clear that's not important to you.
@hazie Safer. Those people you are trying to defend made a choice. Choices sometimes come with known consequences.
@hazie Do you have safety requirements where you work for PPE's like high visibility vests or safety shoes?
@@xx5zi
Here is the issue.
What you are saying right here, is exactly why cops, firefighters, ferry employees, and thousands of other jobs are not filled.
"IN THE NAME OF SAFETY"...
He says.
Safe from WHAT?
A virus?
Which virus?
Covid, influenza, common cold, herpes, small pox, chicken pox, meningitis, laryngitis, HPV, HIV, etc, etc, etc.
Your savior and messiah...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said...
"Even if you're vaccinated, you can still contract covid".
So now what Mr. Internet scientist?
Sooner or later we will have to face the fact that somebody is playing us.
We will have to live the life that we know we must live.
Untill then... go hide in your basement chicken little.
@hazie
I agree with you 100%.
I never even got close to playing this game of hypochondria.
To live in fear is NOT to live.
making these great jobs known to the "outside" is a gap in recruiting departments for many industries (I'm in the utilities where management is reluctant to recruit outsiders and is often reliant on the family pipeline, unfortunately)
SIMPLE: Or END illogical, unjust and segregationist vax mandates! Self imposed state problem due to bad policies.
the fk? you one of those "Biden is Great" bots?
"great jobs? Do you want to handle lines and stand on cold steel decks for 19 dollars an hour? also WA doesn't require maritime workers to be paid OT after 40, this job SUCKS and now another handful of people will apply and suffer. This is the next closest thing America still has to Slavery. The State offers less than shipyard helper wages.
Cultural change.....you go Washington. Following Uncle Calii right off the cliff. And Fox 13 is all for it!
There are people everywhere along these routes that are prior navy that would fit the jobs well. Maybe pay people well enough for the job and it won't be an issue.
Or END illogical, unjust and segregationist vax mandates! Self imposed state problem due to bad policies.
The pay and scheduling is terrible at wsf.
@@michellejugao4091 I work for the Ferries and we are payed well below the industry standard. Well below. Vaccine mandate wasn't as big a problem as the fact that we're not paying people enough money that people want to come to work at WSF. You got to pay skilled workers to stay at workplace. There was a cut in funding about 20 years ago and now we're seeing the result. The vaccine mandate has very little to do with the problems we're seeing. How can you retain workers if they're not going to get 40 hours a week from the get-go and they're only starting at 21 or $23 an hour? in the Seattle area are you kidding me? I have heard we lose over half the new hires within the first year.
Michelle Jugao 💯 every other excuse is just political propaganda and misdirection to the actual root causes
@michelle juango you're a bot. No content on your Chanel. Also your post is not based in facts. WSF crew are paid nearly 50% less than the industry standard and both deck and engineering entry jobs are on call with no guarantee of hours or schedule and require employee to be available 24 7
@ 2:00 Shame on you for firing valuable employees because of your unhealthy fear. 🙃
Exactly a year ago all boats were running then poof vaccine mandate and works go bye bye... The last ice storm had so many extra crashes due to short staffed dot they didn't even de ice the narrows bridge! Saw a 5 car pile up!
There's only one culture. The American Culture.
I’m not sure that’s true. There’s almost countless cultures in this country.
We gotta hire more emus.
How about not mandating a certain vaccine!!! Lots of people need jobs but won't give up there medical freedom
If you pay them, they will come. That simple.
Automatically turns me off
Would you pay full price for a custom shop reissue 52 tele that was half as good? Why would someone want to do the full requirements of the job for half the pay? We're underpaid by any metric in the maritime field.
get woke go broke.
Ferries wear boots and I tell you no lie.
Okay guys if you are somewhat mechanically inclined let me give you some direction. The Aviation Mx field is definitely needing fresh blood. I could go on talking about stuff but let’s talk $$💰. The company I work for pays 67.00 an hour topped out. That’s 67x2080=140,000 yearly. Soon to be $70. 18 months of school and I believe 3 years of experience on aircraft and you are on your way. Check it out.
A&P
Correct 👍
Sounds good but not everyone can afford to go to school for 18 months and have no income
What school?
At the very least give the mukilteo/Clinton ferry riders overnight parking. There’s nowhere to leave your car if you want to go to Whidbey and it’s an absolute nightmare.
There’s only one culture in America. If you bring yours with you. Go home if you don’t want what Americans have and treasure.
😅😅🤣
Please enlighten me about the culture you yanks got
@@mrfunatparties6763 beer, guns jacked up trucks 1,300 hp junkyard built mustang and Cameros pretty much everything in western culture as far as music and movies and freedom…chicks with big tits ain’t to bad either…our culture is more vast then any other country because America is like a big country with a bunch of little countries inside of it each brings its own culture to the table
@@mrfunatparties6763 the American culture includes school shootings just look at the news
@mr fun at parties Our "culture" is whatever we stole from others and relabeled it as our own.
Okay, our defining moments are in where we excel- highest number of mass shootings. We have 4% of the world's population, but consume 25% of the fossil fuels. Of the 200+ democratize nations, we rank in the top 5 in...
Highest infant mortality rates
Highest number of illiterate adults
Highest number of people without any health insurance
Lowest life expectancy
Highest percentage of "working poor"
Highest rate per capita of incarcerated adults.
Lots to be proud of.
Pay a decent wage and maybe you wouldn't have a problem finding workers... workers are key not management
I'd like to know what percentagr of thos ferry riders are blm members? Are blm being statistically served by Ferry system?
How's that KKK membership working for you?
We should build more bridges.
He'll no its paramount that no bridges be added they would allow impoverished people to mass migrate from Seattle.
Nobody wants to work for a failed state. Save yourselves learn combat skills
I mean in a State where weed is legal.... You can't if you work there
everybody should have an uncle
So does Inslee fly to and from "work" and the tax payer s dime of course .
Will they riot on the ferries?
some said global north facing labor shortage, some said the world is overpopulation. are they connected?
Maybe don’t make all your jobs “on call” only.
what is the comments section smoking
Just park them .....
Start diversity hire 😂😂
Bus them in right from the border. That was the plan, unskilled labor abound. Title 42 facilitates this. Thugs
I'm honestly glad that they aren't simply pushing out more boats unsafely with too few crew. It's a little annoying to have to plan ahead more for my commute, but they took safety seriously and that's paramount
Oh well now...... They have no choice. It's coast guard regulated. They run on minimum coast guard required crew which they no longer even have because they fired a lot of them. If they don't have minimum crew they CANT sail.
You'd think there would be an abundance of workers chomping at the bit to get hired.
It's 19 bucks an hour and your forced to be vaccinated... Plus you have to have a ab card...
Most people aren't into being underpaid and abused
@janncoons7445 You call making $85,000 a year "Underpaid", Not Hardly..jeeesch
Joke, did you hear how they found out a killer whale in Seattle is gay? Cuz they saw it bumb a ferry.
Happy Easter.
Happy Ramadan.
Ban all ferries! We need electric boats!!
A 10,000 BHP electric motor.
So how big do you think the battery bank will be?
A 600 BHP electric motor needs 54,000 lbs of batteries.
A range of 300 miles.
The last 50 miles at 50% power.
Do the math.
You need deisel...
Or it doesn't work.
@@TheErik249 🤔🧐 Sails! We will use wind power! Ban all ferries and buy sail boat ferries! 🤓
Ugh. More expensive, and causes more destruction to the earth. BTW, lithium is up 400%.
@@5.7ninetynine
You sound like a crazy leftist!!
Thanks for the laugh. 😂🤣😂
Ban all ferries? So does everyone get their own electric boat to commute across the sound? I don't understand.