California Port Worker Exposes Labor Union for Exascerbating Supply Chain Crisis, ‘Keep Cutting the Work’

breitbart.com ^ | 10/26/2021 | Wendell Husabo

[rktman]

A California longshoreman, who works at California’s San Pedro Bay Port Complex, reportedly said the labor unions are exascerbating the supply chain crisis.

Identified as Alfred to Yahoo News, the longshoreman blamed Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) for “cutting the work” at the port, which is increasing the jam of containers stuck at sea and on the docks.

“They’re [PMA] the ones who are not training: skilled positions. [That] means crane operators, top handler drivers, trans drivers,” said Alfred. “They’re the ones who are keeping the ships out there at sea anchored.”

Despite the delays and mounting shipping costs American families and workers are experiencing, Alfred maintained “we have the manpower there, [they] just keep cutting the work.”

Alfred also said there is “not enough space” to offload the containers and stack it on the port, questioning the unions rules that are increasing the backlog. “There are truck drivers that come in and are waiting for a chassis and the company does not allow us to give them it,” Alfred said.

The port backlogs have often been blamed on too few truck drivers. President and CEO of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) Chris Spear told CNN last week the industry is short a record amount of drivers, 30 percent.

But a truck driver named Carlos Rameriz told Yahoo News the ports are not releasing containers to the drivers. “It’s been the worst month I ever had. There’s no work. They’re not releasing anything from [the port],” said Rameriz. “That’s what pays my bills.”

Rameriz also said many of the truckers are waiting three hours or longer to enter the port to pick up a container. The drivers are at the “mercy of longshoremen who operate on their own schedule,” Rameriz said.

[central_va]

Offshoring of industry has been an economic disaster of the highest order..

[central_va]

Unions are a tiny percent of the US work force. Less then 7% of the US work force is in a union. 96% of truck drivers are non union.

Republicans for Pete's sake please stop with the anti worker rhetoric. Do you ever want to grow up and be a majority party????

PS: You can be pro worker and anti union at the same time.

[Elsie]

The company's World Container Index shows that the composite cost of shipping a 40-foot container on eight major East-West routes hit $9,613 in the week to August 19, up 360% from a year ago.

The biggest price jump was along the route from Shanghai to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, with the cost of a 40-foot container soaring 659% to $13,698. Container shipping prices on routes from Shanghai to Los Angeles and New York have also jumped.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/business/global-supply-chains-christmas-shipping/index.html

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The cost to ship an EMPTY container back to China is not mentioned; but I imagine they are becoming like cardboard boxes that you toss in the trash when you've gotten the product out of it.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=buy+a+used+shipping+container&ia=web

 

 

[bert]

As you sleep under your rock, Biden et al are striving mightily to return unions to dominance in the industrial work place. The unions are feeling their oats and striking or threatening to strike

You gush about truck drivers. In California the nonunion drivers about which you speak are no longer legal. Your pro union left wing buddies outlawed independent contractors forcing drivers to join Teamster dominated large trucking firms.

Your glorification of the union is going to bring California to it’s knees because nothing is going to get delivered.

You pretend to talk a good talk but you are ignorant of the present reality

[central_va]

As you sleep under your rock, Biden et al are striving mightily to return unions to dominance in the industrial work place. The unions are feeling their oats and striking or threatening to strike

I am VERY anti union and pro worker( 100+ million non union workers). Your pea brain cannot understand that. You are a typical Bushbot globalist Free Traitor™ Repuke-icrat stupid dumb-a$$ tilting at union windmills. Your anti worker BS is why the R party will always struggle. GROW THE F UP OLD MAN.

[Hot Tabasco]

To get hired into a UAW plant as a skilled tradesman you must have either a UAW Journeyman’s card or documented 8 years of employment in the trade......

[oldvirginian]

Job requirements for most of the unions are very restrictive. I remember a guy wanted to go to Alaska when they were building the pipeline. He had to take a year of classes to get an apprentice card, then he could be hired. Not sure what the job was.
He did get a job and raked in the cash for several years.

[HKMk23]

Hysteresis.

The lag between the Demand signal A, and the associated Supply response A’.

When the lag is long enough, the next Demand signal B precedes receipt of the prior Supply response A’, and, therefore, includes the magnitude of the as-yet unmet previous Demand A; it’s a bigger wave, if you will.

That, in turn, induces an equally big Supply response B’ that includes the previous Supply response A’ because the system didn’t recognize that some of Demand B was a repeat of Demand A.

Meanwhile Supply A’ arrives, but Supply B’ hasn’t, yet, and there’s now Demand C, which repeats all of Demand B less Demand A. And that induces Supply C’ ....

Aggravat that withby government involvement, regulation, COVID BS, etc...

It’s no wonder the system is a wreck right now.

[proud American in Canada]

Yes, I am eagerly waiting for my overpriced Peloton.

[proud American in Canada]

Yeah, until Biden canceled everything and made us beg the Saudis for oil.

The Keystone pipeline employed a lot of people on both sides of the border. They all immediately lost their jobs.

I don’t know how the Alaskan pipeline works.

Sorry to hear about your son. There’s good money to be made in that field.

[minnesota_bound]

California Drove Truckers Out of Business. Now Store Shelves Are Empty https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/california-drove-truckers-out-business-now-store-daniel-greenfield/ Excerpts: 2019 was described as a “bloodbath” for the trucking industry with 640 trucking companies across the country filing for bankruptcy in just the first half of the year. Last year, California's DMV began refusing to register thousands of trucks with an estimated 100,000 trucks under threat. That was part of the plan. California Democrats and their environmentalist special interests had set out to crush the state’s ports and trucking industry....

[Elsie]

Kinda like the delayed gridlock on the interstate.

Ya hit this slowdown - it goes for a mile - then it speeds up again.

I’m left wondering, “Where’d the wreck go?”

[Elsie]

Kinda like the delayed gridlock on the interstate.

Ya hit this slowdown - it goes for a mile - then it speeds up again.

I’m left wondering, “Where’d the wreck go?”

[Elsie]

California Drove Truckers Out of Business.

Now Store Shelves Are Empty

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/california-drove-truckers-out-business-now-store-daniel-greenfield/

Excerpts: 2019 was described as a “bloodbath” for the trucking industry with 640 trucking companies across the country filing for bankruptcy in just the first half of the year.

Last year, California’s DMV began refusing to register thousands of trucks with an estimated 100,000 trucks under threat.

That was part of the plan.

California Democrats and their environmentalist special interests had set out to crush the state’s ports and trucking industry....

[Elsie]

(From link) --->

 That California law AB5 is bad news.
Why should freelance workers aka gig or app or per diem workers be entitled to the same employee benefits as full or part-time employees?
If you haul yourself out of bed everyday and commit to five days a week of work as a full-time employee - why should someone who works whenever they choose get the same perks?
But - as Daniel Greenfield has pointed out - unionizing these type of workers produces a double whammy: it would subject the trucking industry to a green garrote of regulations or bankrupt it altogether.

 

 

 

I heard a similar story once...

 

 

 Matthew 20:1-16

 

1 For the kingdom of heaven of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the market place without work. 4 And he said to them, “You go into the vineyard too and I will give you whatever is right.” 5 So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing. 6 And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and he said to them, “Why are you standing here all day without work?” 7 They said to him, “Because no one has hired us.” He said to them, “You go and work in the vineyard too.”
8 When it was evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.” 9 When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay. 10 And when those hired first came, they though they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage. 11 When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner, 12 saying, “These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.

 

13 And the landowner replied to one of them, “Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave to you. 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous? 16 So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”