Elctro-mechanical technicians to troubleshoot and repair the automated equipment.
“the ILA said that it is “steadfastly against any form of automation – full or semi – that replaces jobs or historical work functions. We will not accept the loss of work and livelihood for our members due to automation.””
Good luck with that.
I’m sure it doesn’t hurt wages....of those who remain employed.
Yeah, maybe. But we have reached a point where workers couldn’t care less anymore and just want to stick it to BlackRock et al.
We are coming off two decades of the US government literally paying companies to relocate to China and everywhere else. They are killing coal, and have done massive destruction to pipelines. John Deere is going to Mexico. Hell even Twinkies are made in Mexico now.
And so you get Longshoremen hearing they intend to phase them out and they realize if they are getting shut down in 3 years, might as well make em hurt now.
62% increase eh.....yeah that’ll help with inflation
There are major inefficiencies in workflow. Way too much picking up and putting down, moving it to one place and then another, stacking, unstacking, and restacking. Then on a truck to go to a warehouse to be picked up, put down picked up and put on another truck to leave the port area. Or on a truck to go to a rail yard to be put on a train.
And that doesn’t even account for the ones that go to a holding area for customs (most don’t).
ai -> fewer jobs
O'leary and his ilk dream of replacing Americans with imported labor and robotic overlords.
The labor union Luddites are against automation for an obvious reason and it’s a very selfish one.
It’s hard almost impossible to stop progress. Remember when the computers were coming out and then early to mid 90s I would’ve never believed I would have a phone where I could do everything on it by plane tickets do all kinds of work. There’s so much progress that should have been stopped. Can’t think of an example now but it’s gonna be impossible for them to stop automation down the road I believe.
We will not accept the loss of work and livelihood for our members due to automation.”
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That statement is rephrasing of the zero-sum liberal economic theory. Every machine breaks down, parts wear out, etc - they all need a human operation/engineer to fix the problem, replace the part.
They would likely end up with more jobs than they have now.
If Kevin is such a genius he should know that foreign entities own most of our ports. The only Americans involved in this mess are the dock workers.
Automation is great but even that means remote operators, i.e., slave labor from India, etc