How about getting rid of moving equipment in general. That'll keep 'em well occupied.
Posted on 09/19/2024 8:50:52 AM PDT by DFG
In a monumental labor dispute, approximately 45,000 dockworkers across the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to go on strike on October 1, potentially shutting down 36 ports that handle nearly half of the nation’s cargo from ships. The International Longshoremen’s Union (ILA) is demanding higher wages and an outright ban on the automation of cranes, gates, and container movements used in the loading and unloading of freight.
A strike of this scale could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. economy, especially if it persists for more than a few weeks. CBS News reports how experts suggest that consumers might not immediately experience shortages of goods, particularly holiday-related items, which have largely been imported in advance. However, if the strike extends beyond a month, supply chains could be severely disrupted, leading to spot shortages in consumer goods and parts for industries like auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
In a monumental labor dispute, approximately 45,000 dockworkers across the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to go on strike on October 1, potentially shutting down 36 ports that handle nearly half of the nation’s cargo from ships. The International Longshoremen’s Union (ILA) is demanding higher wages and an outright ban on the automation of cranes, gates, and container movements used in the loading and unloading of freight.
A strike of this scale could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. economy, especially if it persists for more than a few weeks. CBS News reports how experts suggest that consumers might not immediately experience shortages of goods, particularly holiday-related items, which have largely been imported in advance. However, if the strike extends beyond a month, supply chains could be severely disrupted, leading to spot shortages in consumer goods and parts for industries like auto manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.
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There’s a number of reports out there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5kO_BnXAwc
https://e.huawei.com/en/case-studies/industries/waterway/tianjin-port
https://www.porttechnology.org/news/what-is-a-smart-port-2/
US Companies are working on it too. The US Longshoremen know what’s coming and their bosses especially fear their political influence will go to zero
Demanding wages I get. But how can you demand that automation be banned?
Ban automation? What century do they think this is?
How about getting rid of moving equipment in general. That'll keep 'em well occupied.
Let then strike over automation.
Automation is the future.
They can join the blacksmiths that derided the hosre-less carriage, the automobile.
“Let then strike over automation.
Automation is the future.”
Agreed but poor planning and assumptions created an avoidable problem.
If you want higher wages, you must produce more, with your extra wages more than covered by the productivity increase. Automation is how these guys will become more productive, so they can get paid more.
Their demands are unreasonable. No increase in wages without automation should be the counter.
They’ve got no right holding the nation over a barrel.
Repeal the 1935 NLRA and a labor strike reverts to being a criminal activity.
This is my go-to shipping YouTube channel, it’s been around a while and I still try to keep in touch with shipping news as I was part of that industry for many years. Enjoy, he did great coverage on the Francis Scott Key bridge collision as well.
https://youtu.be/c5O4oWVgObc?feature=shared
Their real wages have been eaten by inflation; it would take a substantial increase to make restore them to Trump era incomes.
Unlike the rest of the country, they have a place to stand from where they can empty grocery shelves within a week.
The companies’ interests no longer follow the country’s.
Keep in mind that this position is a departure for me. I have always supported business and capital, but having seen how the ‘free market sector’ has flown over to the Obama/Biden globalist oligarchy I find myself more sympathetic to the old time unions, wondering: is there some ground on which we could make common cause with those people now, in the face of this inundation of our borders?
Our enemy is of a kind that we should not reject any potential allies, even criminal ones.
btt
sounds like they need MORE automation, not less ...
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