Posted on 04/07/2023 4:57:18 PM PDT by CFW
44 Marisa Gerber, Ronald D. White Fri, April 7, 2023 at 2:07 PM EDT·5 min read Long Beach, CA - February 17: An aerial view of the Port of Long Beach at dusk Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A dockworker shortage at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach stretched into its second day Friday, halting cargo traffic at the massive port complex. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A dockworker shortage at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports stretched into its second day on Friday, halting cargo traffic at the massive shipping complex while disrupting the local economy and the global supply chain.
The shortage comes several months into protracted labor negotiations between the union that represents West Coast dockworkers and the industry group representing maritime shippers, which are hashing out a new contract focused, in part, on wages and the role of automation. The old contract, covering more than 22,000 workers at 29 ports, expired July 1.
The Pacific Maritime Assn., the industry group representing shippers at the negotiating table, said in a statement Friday that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had taken a “concerted action to withhold labor.”
“A majority of the jobs for last night’s shift went unfilled, including all jobs for cargo-handling equipment operators needed to load and unload cargo,” the statement read. “The workers who did show up were released because there was not a full complement of ILWU members to operate the terminals.”
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“The workers who did show up were released because there was not a full complement of ILWU members to operate the terminals.”
Now this is the real news of what’s really going on in the US. These garbage tranny headlines that you can’t avoid everyday now are just a curtain to what’s really going on.
Meanwhile Gavin Nuisance is traveling around the country trying to convince red states they ought to turn blue and elect him President because he has done such a great job of destroying California.
Anecdotal, but a lot of my contractor friends tell me they can’t get good help.
“Now this is the real news of what’s really going on in the US.”
Check out the info in the link below:
How much are they paying?
An astute observation.
This will be solved when the Chicoms build their cargo terminals in Mexico.
What cargo? I was at the Port of Long Beach three weeks ago - there was not one container ship ready to be unloaded
One guy was stacking 1000’s of empty containers. More ships are docking in Savannah, NY-NJ and Houston.
But what about all those flooding our borders for work and a better life????
That was last month’s news, for the remainder of the summer will be about abortion rights, transexuals, and Trump Trump Trump and GOP this and GOP that...sigh
From what they tell me, they start them at a below market rate for the following reasons:
Many need on-the-job training
They need to see if the worker will be making money and saving time for them - can they be trusted to do the job right (reducing oversight, tear-out & redos, etc.)
Can they demonstrate reliability (showing up, doing a decent day’s work, treating customers & the property well, reputation, phone use, etc.)
Once they find a good worker, they treat them like gold.
Update?
Fears grow over looming supply chain crunch as workers at critical West Coast ports refuse to turn up to work amid pay negotiations - and it could take WEEKS to clear backlog of back-to-school and holiday goods
Thank you for the update. I appreciate Freepers who see a news article and remember “Hey, we discussed this issue at FR, let me find that thread and update the readers”. That certainly keeps information flowing here.
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