Elctro-mechanical technicians to troubleshoot and repair the automated equipment.
I had heard, but admittedly haven’t had a chance to look into it further, that the issue with automation is that our ports are owned/controlled by foreign companies. When/if they automate, we are therefore potentially at the mercy of those foreign interests controlling the ports from another country if we want our ports to operate. At least currently we can hope that American workers would keep our ports open despite what the owners may direct.
“There will be some new jobs with far higher wages.”
True that there will be jobs maintaining the automated handlers, but there will be fewer jobs for us humans, won’t there?
MHO - Making Humans Obsolete.