Thousands of dock workers in Baltimore are now unemployed after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, blocking their access to work. The Biden administration estimates that $2 million in wages are at stake every day.
By Petula Dvorak, The Washington PostCurnell Crockett, whose work in the Dundalk, Md., ports was halted when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, greets a co-worker while visiting the Mobile Career Center outside the Steamship Trade Association to inquire about unemployment and labor resources on Monday. “You name it,” said Crockett, 69. “If it comes off a ship, I drove it off.”
“I was supposed to be on that one,” said Sylvester Anderson, 62, who got a call to work on the cargo ship Dali that Monday, but turned the job down. “Maybe I should’ve taken it.”Sylvester Anderson, 62, visits the mobile career center on Monday. “I don’t know if everyone’s going to get the help they need,” said Crockett, eyeing the cluster of workers in a parking lot.
And about 1,200 longshore workers will receive lump sum payments that should equal between one and four weeks salary while crews scramble to resume shipping traffic, according to White House plans.
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