Professor Sal. You have some wonderful people who send you information I’m just I’m just a novice looking on I’m so grateful for what I’ve learned from you you thank you and thank you to the people who provide you with all the extra information’s
Sal, as a Brit, I only heard about this situation via RUclipsrs. I am so grateful for all the information you gave in this video! I learnt more in this hour, than I've heard in the last year! (Apart from what I learnt as a sub of yours). Thanks from UK.
Agreed. Our media in America is basically useless in many aspects. These days I always look for news and details from subject matter experts like Sal. They provide infinitely more information and aren't biased and don't push an agenda.
@Longshore79 you're right, but then nothing of that sort is quick or easy. Though, I bet the ports feel that the impetus to get cracking on it just went way up.
It's reported that 50,000 workers are on strike. Machines don't need lunch breaks, so you can imagine how many more hours of weekly production automation provides. They better get that $75 an hour while they can!
I want to better understand the position on automation. I work in computing and have built my career on "automate the tedious parts of my job so that I can spend time on more interesting problems". This has always lead to more work growth (including an increase in overall jobs) for places that I work. It also leads to better customer service (things happen faster, more reliably, less costly) - this is part of why it leads to more overall jobs. I could maybe see cases of "port X automates and work shifts from port Y to X due to better service", or cases where the increased automation shifts job roles (more truckers needed to haul cargo away from the port, fewer crane operators needed in the port), but that seems like an overall benefit for labor/quantity of jobs available.
Unions do NOT want efficiency. More man hours at a wage that pays the maximum amount, preferably (but not necessarily) without breaking the Company's back.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 That's a stupid idea, no matter who came up with it. How would taxing robots provide jobs? Why can't the "people" use robots to be more productive? What would stop the "people" from investing in the Companies that use robots, so they too get a slice of the profit. Was the economy destroyed when horses disappeared? NO. The use of new industrial machinery produced more , and better products. Quality of life increased for all.
@@reasonablespeculation3893 All our ancestors have been slaves46 My people came from Scotland and were replaced by sheep46 They were surfs/slaves46 My father was a sharecropper/slave46 What will you teach me? Will you teach me and you to be slave to AI?
SAL AS A OWNER OPERATOR I THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING SOME OF THE FOLKS AND NOT JUST SAYING SUPPORT THE WORKERS . IS BIGGER THAN THAT AND YOUR EXPLANATION ON WHAT AUTOMATING MEANS IS SPOT ON GOOD JOB I ENJOY THE VIDEOS. I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SINCE JULY THAT ILA WAS NOT COMING TO THE TABLE AND NOW WHEN THIS GETS RESOLVED MY DRAYAGE RATES WILL CLIMB AGAIN WHICH WILL BE PASSED DOWN. ALSO JUST A LITTLE INSIDE AS FAR AS HOW FAR CONTAINERS GO WE HAVE A LOT OF CANADA HAULERS COME TO PORT OF NWK ELIZABETH AND I HAVE PERSONALLY GO AS FAR AS MICHIGAN OHIO VERMONT VIRGINIA AT TIMES AND MOST OF THE BIG COMPANIES HOME DEPOT LOWES LG SAMSUNG ARE HERE IN JERSEY AND PA HAS A LOT OF WAREHOUSES
@@paison812perhaps comprehension is not your strong point. Sal said all caps for QUESTIONS. Due to no punctuation, your passage is a run-on sentence/statement.
It’s over 6 years and I truly doubt you work in conditions longshoremen work in. My family has been doing that job for decades and they sacrificed their bodies for that grueling job. They work in rain, hail, summer storms, cold, heat, everything. My dad is missing fingers, been crushed several times, and has busted his shins on steel more times than I can count. Trust me, they deserve a raise.
@@jules8029 I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying what about the rest of us? And do they really have to fuck all of us people over in the process of getting what they want?
@@ps_nyisgone we still have a few weeks before we feel it hopefully they figure it out and also im hoping we can just do this with the whole country we need to really change things up its become a complete shit show.I can't find any work or afford a place to live like many other Americans.I have a small business not sure how this will effect it but also have a part time job.
RE: Website - due to the spotlight nationwide, much traffic to the site and the servers are overloaded. Basically a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack, just not orchestrated as a "hack". Happens all the time to websites that generally don't get a lot of traffic, when big things happen. You have to plan for traffic like that (to be reliably "up").
The fact that so little dry goods etc is manufactured in this magnificent country. Is allowed to be taken to its knees mainly because of its of out and out GREED #SMDH!!
Don't blame the citizens. The plan is beyond individuals. We have no say. It is the globalists and it's been in the making for HUNDREDS of years. Research!
Have to solve the reason why industry left here in the first place? Unreasonable Union rules are one of the big ones. Having been in one , against my will, and worked with several unions, believe me, no business can function that way.
We just got the emergency recovery charge notification through today. It doesn't apply to us because we don't import or export from the US we deal only with china and indonesia, but it is still $30 per w/m extra for people who do. Our shipper reckons 5 days of disruption per day of strike action.
Im 100% against this strike. 1st they make 33$/hr starting out. And then turned down a 50% pay raise. I say hire new workers, i know many MANY pll that would love to make 33/hr.
Catching up now... that was actually the best VP debate in my lifetime I thought, and I don't care for either candidate personally. Pushes me even more towards one candidate.
Thanks Sal. I worried honestly about hearing a “leaning” story (left, right, labor, union, capitalism, whatever) and I think you did a really good job here of giving both praise and criticism where applicable. I think that kind of skill is far too underrated, and wanted to say you’re awesome for it.
I have no direct skin in this game but my two cents automation is a national security issue we already have foreign ownership if they automate and control from the web the ports can be shut down during a critical time we have to think clearly
Good point. The issue is then who owns the port and who controls the software that runs the port. I don't have a problem with smart ports but I don't want my country's smart ports or the software that runs them owned by the Chinese or Russians or Israelis or Saudis or etc etc
Same with humans right now, they can just shut it down anytime they want. Difference is, if it’s a hack, it’s easier to solve in an hour or less, but humans on strike? That takes days and months. Think about it this way, everyone has smartphones, if it’s so easy to use tech to cripple the economy, just shut down the entire telecommunication network. That would do more damage in a day than a port shutting down in a week
I also got nothing as an essential worker during Covid. The media is still saying we had all this time off during the plague but millions of did not and we didn't get a dime extra for working so your point of view is a little off.
My company gave us some bonus incentives for working O-T, until they hired en mass "unskilled" labor to cut our hours. They then got the State of CA to pass a law eliminating overtime past 8 hrs and only after 40 hrs total. All while the company was receiving COVID funds from the government aka taxpayers! The whole incentive for voluntarily working 4-10's was the overtime! Those on UI got $600 dollars per week extra, which would have been nice, but I wanted the safety of having a job to go to everyday when store shelves were bare.
Thousands upon thousands of Americans hit by the hurricane ..devastation is mind blowing …this strike on the supply chain is going to hit them hard..harder than the rest of us ..no concern shown at all not a single mention.. Support for them supersedes all
We ain't giving you no 77% raise. No matter how long the strike takes. I'm pissed off and ready for this strike to go until next year. Screw those dock workers and Union workers
@XerrolAvengerII he's right. You're setting a presidence by holding the country hostage. Give them a raise, not 77% over 6 years. That's 10% every year gor the next 6 years compounded annually... the rest of us gets 3% raise annually and inflation, is 4%. Where's the added value? Let them strike, I'm ready not to spend. This is getting rediculous.
It’s over the life of the new contract, works out to roughly a 12% annual increase of total package. Not strictly in pocket. It gets distributed to Wage, benefits, retirement, medical.. we are talking about a couple cents or maybe a dollar rationed out to each.
Still a wild increase each year above and beyond other workers across the US. So if the economy crashes, we still have this liability growing for 6 years. Excess inflation from greed with little reflection on what is means to the US in the long run.
@@ruffthecow88905$ a year increase to salary over the kife of the contract. Also medical retirement and all that are still benefits paid to employees. You cannot act like that is nothing.
@@ruffthecow8890 Ya right and they threaten all of us for just that ok. threaten our country and all its people I now care nothing of this person of press release when they say without saying it, they are my enemy "unless".
I have pull container for 20 years the crane operators Do Not CARE they make truck drivers wait for 4,5,6 hours just because they can … let the computer control cranes do the work as they are more efficient 👍
I agree. Port workers gets paid a lot, more than they deserve. They’re lazy and greedy and union is incentivizing them. All industries now are fully regulated there’s no longer need for union. Union are bunch of modern mafia
True. That's why I want to know what each port operater _wants_ to spend money on, and what their financing for improvements is. American ports have some of the lowest efficiencies in the developed world. What are port operators _actually_ willing to do . . . do they have a plan to improve, or are they only making pie-in-the-sky plans to cut _labor costs,_ as has often been done? On the other side, is the I.L.A. willing to train its members in new skills on new equipment, without tieing any new job positions to seniority? The biggest problem in negotiations is always the secrecy and bluster both sides maintain! If all documents, finances, and negotiations were public, negotiations would necessarily end up shorter and more fair to all involved.
Oct. 1 our manager over capacity finally acknowledged strike but says it won't slow us down until next week. We get our container freight from a consolidator company. Before today I only knew about strike from this channel. I'm sure hoping someone up the supply chain saw this coming and pre loaded our peak products. This month going forward was our receiving ramp to holiday store replenishment. Plus I can't say that I've seen our Black Friday specials have arrived. I'm supposing the I.L.A. is wanting the retail association to lean hard on the USMX.
The big companies already know Black Friday is not going to be big this year🎉 with the slowdown in the economy this will just be a good excuse for the layoffs
Omg I found u're channel at the right time, talk about fate 😅 be following just from the start of the Yemeni blockade. What an eventful few month regarding shipping these has been
@@CryptoGeneYus Well you can produce more jobs easily...start a war. Bam 10,000+ jobs in an instant. 😂 In all seriousness automation isn't the issue, all jobs are affected by automation either be able to re-specialize or redefine the paradigm of what your job's role is. What kills jobs permanently is inflation and foreign jobs caused by high costs in the US which PERMANENTLY removes that job position from the US.
It's not about fighting automation, is about who gets to reap the rewards of automation. If workers own the means of production then automation means less work for everyone, with out a reduction in pay. If a few fat cats own the automation then they will reap extraordinary profits while their former employees are made homeless.
@@g.j.2950 The owners of the means of production reap the rewards. Prioritize investment in productive assets, throughout your working life, if you want financial security. Everyone in the USA has the opportunity to do this. But few understand how the economy work. Without efficiency upgrades, the USA will go down the path of decreased quality of life, DEBT, and irrelevance
A free market means that incentives are neither enhanced nor hindered or leveraged in any economically unnatural way. This includes minimum wage, which is a form of price control. Let each market participant find their own niche and negotiate their own compensation via their value provided. Price discovery needs to be natural and negotiable. This is my opinion after years of studying economics and economic history. Thanks Sal
You don't get to have market price discovery when you have one or a very small number of parties on one side of the operation like you have with very large employers. There is something called the theorem of the second best. It says that in such a situation you get a better situation when you have two very large parties that negotiate with each other rather than one very large and many individuals, hence the need for unions.
Kym in Darwin, Australia. Our former Prime Minister Bob Hawke was previously our national labor leader, each year leading the unions national minimum wage negotiations. After long days and nights negotiating, when the employers and union reps were close to a deal, Bob would keep the hot, delicious pizzas out in the corridor, just steaming away with the smell drifting in. He would say, “ We’ve just got a few minor issues to settle - let’s fix them now - before we eat.” The starving employer reps usually caved in and agreed to the unions demands, before all enjoyed late night pizzas ! PS our Aussie stevedores (longshoremen) earn Aud $100k per year, operating dock cranes).
Appreciate that you don't push any sort of political agenda. Even with content completely unrelated to politics the political slant of the creators seems to deeply soak through these days.
Entry level 40k ish workers have to commute or live local both require 2k/mo min for a 1BR rental. So they pile up debt waiting to get to next level pay to try to pay down debt. Thats why they work holidays overnights weekends etc and can’t plan any events or even Dr appts BCZ they never know when they’re off. Imagine you take off and it gets busy that week - well someone else jumped in. Also it’s not the easiest or safest job. I think the protections of pensions are absolutely paramount! THEY pay into that fund for YRS and they should get it.
45:52 at my last job we started with 3 trucks and at our peak we had 15. Almost 3 years in we dropped back down to 3 and then boom…. Bankruptcy. Mostly cause of the rates…
💯 on the ILA Communication comment. I will add that it’s Ultimate responsibility of the ILA to ensure, and initiate communication, being that the ILA is the only center point between all the owners of the ports, and all the shipping companies. Daggett has failed not only the union, all of us who depend on the services of the union to receive products to keep our daily lives moving, but also the world economy. So when Daggett say they will get what they deserve, I truly hope he gets it. It’s 2024 we all have the power of communicating and connecting with anyone on the face of the Earth, with a small phone that sits in the palm of her hand. Get back to work Dang it!
We will just do things our selves until this is resolved the ila is a good thing to keep around so I say good luck getting what they want cause I don't see any one budging on this Mexican standoff
The timing of the strike is particularly nasty given the catastrophic storm damage to 6 or 7 states in the southeast. Rebuilding that infrastructure will be on hold as long as these ports are closed. But the implications for the bankruptcy of thousands of businesses and Farms will be vastly underestimated. The overall impact on the job market will be catastrophic and the impact on the market will be catastrophic. This could be the event that touches off the major collapse the shtf event that people have been fearing for the last several years.
They're still in RESCUE MODE. Recovery and Rebuild is a long way off yet. And that's for those that actually get a quick insurance payout, which likely won't happen.
hey sal any input on why container volume is so slow in seattle? its been slow for quite some time wondering if it will pick up at all due to this east coast strike
Umm no we don’t. People don’t want to work those jobs and the ones who do want to make 6 figures to do so. Hence why we are here. I don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for goods or anything of that matter. American labor is expensive. Not only that but it will destroy our land.
Agree, but there is a lack of skilled workers, primarily because of the big companies reluctance to take responsibility into educating a skilled workforce. The US should use the German model where the companies take pride in educating their own skilled workers
@@mattben who can afford to pay more? People are having a hard time paying the prices of goods now. Looks like we will have no choice but to do without
Sal, shipping by truck is not cheaper than by ship. You said shipping by truck is down to $2/mile. How many tons is this? We know shipping charges are by weight, right? Figure in the weight and do the math and you will find that the rate per lb or ton Is substantially cheaper by rail than by truck and cheaper by water than either rail or truck. Basically ships offer a volume discount because you can move so much more mass on a large ship than you can on a train or semi truck.
The economy is crushing all of us. The dock workers have a lever to pull to help themselves out of this mess, at the expense of the rest of us. Couldn’t they give us some time to recover before they hose us?
Nope. People. Including Union workers only care about themselves. And so do you. You want to postpone a strike because you didn't prepare. Sorry Charley. I'm not even a Union worker. But I am ready. Let them go as long as it takes. No way. No more money Union boys
Great information! My question is, won't his workers and their families start to suffer under these conditions as well??? It's going to become self-defeating very soon. I was a custodian in a union job and a shop steward for eight years... you're absolutely right about automation where it makes sense. You cannot compromise on certain aspects that require a human touch, but when it comes to efficiency, you can't have it both ways. At the end of the day, if you work a job that grows in technology in any way maybe consider yourself a part of that progress and take the experience. Union jobs tend to hold themselves back to an unhealthy place. Thanks for this video, this has been incredibly insightful 😊
@@RipliWitani you've got the rhetoric backwards. what's ridiculous is the low pay that employers are willing to offer. the workers are entitled to demand just compensation for their dangerous and critically important job. Just because you won't fight for yourself doesn't mean you have to drag down the people who will.
Money aside the question of BLOCKING automation measures in Long Beach being implemented on Atlantic and Gulf ports seems like its a failed Strategy I disagree with Sal..I think he would make an excellent Secretary of Transportation (but not under Harris/Walz Administration)
If inflation wasn’t so high, their demands for wage increases wouldn’t be so high. 85k is no longer enough to support middle class in northeastern states. This is the fault of the government that created this environment. This is very disappointing and I hope this gets resolved quickly
Yeah unskilled Dock Workers do not need to start a $40 an hour and $70 after 3 years 🎉 bringing the robots bring in the immigrants we just brought in🎉 get rid of the Union
Houthis, Key Bridge, and now this. Big year for Big Sal.
The Key Bridge brought me to his channel since he gave just the unbiased facts. I loved it, instant subscriber.
Been here for years…legendary guy!
Red sea tension created panic on Shipping Industry ruclips.net/video/3uWew6I01Zo/видео.html
Big Ward the genius update on Day 1 of strike... ruclips.net/video/QZ7iC2-KbpQ/видео.htmlsi=rKKJ2D-qLj9wz1xz
Professor Sal. You have some wonderful people who send you information I’m just I’m just a novice looking on
I’m so grateful for what I’ve learned from you you thank you and thank you to the people who provide you with all the extra information’s
Sal, as a Brit, I only heard about this situation via RUclipsrs. I am so grateful for all the information you gave in this video! I learnt more in this hour, than I've heard in the last year! (Apart from what I learnt as a sub of yours). Thanks from UK.
Agreed. Our media in America is basically useless in many aspects. These days I always look for news and details from subject matter experts like Sal. They provide infinitely more information and aren't biased and don't push an agenda.
Same. Nothing on the news sites at all
WHAT’S THE SITUATION WITH M/V RUBY?
When you explained who was on the board. Mind boggling I have to go back an watch this again. But now this all makes sense. We Love You.
We are worried here in barbados. Our island is fully dependant on shipping out of the US east coast.
You should never have become so reliable on such an unreliable nation.. nobody will show up to help you.
Tuff shit. Grow your own food and supplies. Learn a lesson here and quit relying on others to support you
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DEAR SAM, YOUR REPORTING IS EXCELLENT, THE VIZION INFO IS INCREDIBLE, FEW ARE AWARE OF THIS AMOUNT OF TRADING, MANY THANKS.
Yes Exellent ruclips.net/video/3uWew6I01Zo/видео.html
OKAY GRANDPA, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO SHOUT! 😂😂
Sal not Sam
Excellent and informative, thank you. This whole thing makes me wonder how fast our ports could be almost entirely automated.
Long time
@Longshore79 you're right, but then nothing of that sort is quick or easy. Though, I bet the ports feel that the impetus to get cracking on it just went way up.
It's reported that 50,000 workers are on strike. Machines don't need lunch breaks, so you can imagine how many more hours of weekly production automation provides. They better get that $75 an hour while they can!
@LburgVAGuy gee I sure hope china or russia doesn't use a cyber attack to shut the ports down.
@@Longshore79 Only because American workers are entitled and lazy.
I want to better understand the position on automation. I work in computing and have built my career on "automate the tedious parts of my job so that I can spend time on more interesting problems". This has always lead to more work growth (including an increase in overall jobs) for places that I work. It also leads to better customer service (things happen faster, more reliably, less costly) - this is part of why it leads to more overall jobs.
I could maybe see cases of "port X automates and work shifts from port Y to X due to better service", or cases where the increased automation shifts job roles (more truckers needed to haul cargo away from the port, fewer crane operators needed in the port), but that seems like an overall benefit for labor/quantity of jobs available.
Unions do NOT want efficiency. More man hours at a wage that pays the maximum amount,
preferably (but not necessarily) without breaking the Company's back.
They are worried about their relatively unskilled workers who can't use a computer.
Bill Gates said in one of his books, that we better tax robots, or the people will eventually starve for lack of jobs.
@@yedidyah-jedshlomoh1533 That's a stupid idea, no matter who came up with it. How would taxing robots provide jobs?
Why can't the "people" use robots to be more productive?
What would stop the "people" from investing in the Companies that use robots, so they too get a slice of the profit.
Was the economy destroyed when horses disappeared? NO. The use of new industrial machinery produced more , and better products. Quality of life increased for all.
@@reasonablespeculation3893 All our ancestors have been slaves46 My people came from Scotland and were replaced by sheep46 They were surfs/slaves46 My father was a sharecropper/slave46 What will you teach me? Will you teach me and you to be slave to AI?
SAL AS A OWNER OPERATOR I THANK YOU FOR EDUCATING SOME OF THE FOLKS AND NOT JUST SAYING SUPPORT THE WORKERS . IS BIGGER THAN THAT AND YOUR EXPLANATION ON WHAT AUTOMATING MEANS IS SPOT ON GOOD JOB I ENJOY THE VIDEOS. I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN SINCE JULY THAT ILA WAS NOT COMING TO THE TABLE AND NOW WHEN THIS GETS RESOLVED MY DRAYAGE RATES WILL CLIMB AGAIN WHICH WILL BE PASSED DOWN. ALSO JUST A LITTLE INSIDE AS FAR AS HOW FAR CONTAINERS GO WE HAVE A LOT OF CANADA HAULERS COME TO PORT OF NWK ELIZABETH AND I HAVE PERSONALLY GO AS FAR AS MICHIGAN OHIO VERMONT VIRGINIA AT TIMES AND MOST OF THE BIG COMPANIES HOME DEPOT LOWES LG SAMSUNG ARE HERE IN JERSEY AND PA HAS A LOT OF WAREHOUSES
CAPS LOCK, is NOT YOUR FRIEND.
@@JohnDoryPsh I FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS U DIDN’T HEAR SAL I SEE
@@paison812perhaps comprehension is not your strong point. Sal said all caps for QUESTIONS. Due to no punctuation, your passage is a run-on sentence/statement.
I am new to the industry and this channel has been of great help. Thank you!!
Boy. I'd love a 77% pay increase. I haven't gotten a raise in years yet gas and groceries are still sky high.
It’s over 6 years and I truly doubt you work in conditions longshoremen work in. My family has been doing that job for decades and they sacrificed their bodies for that grueling job. They work in rain, hail, summer storms, cold, heat, everything. My dad is missing fingers, been crushed several times, and has busted his shins on steel more times than I can count. Trust me, they deserve a raise.
@@jules8029 I'm not disagreeing, I'm just saying what about the rest of us? And do they really have to fuck all of us people over in the process of getting what they want?
Love this channel! Good job!
Thanks so much!
@@wgowshipping support made in the USA
People panic buying here in my city in South texas..like the toilet paper is coming from over seas.😂😂
Same in Norfolk/Virginia Beach. TP already out in every store. Even the sandpaper kind.
Im going to stock up on coffee!!!
hit the liquor store!
@@ps_nyisgone we still have a few weeks before we feel it hopefully they figure it out and also im hoping we can just do this with the whole country we need to really change things up its become a complete shit show.I can't find any work or afford a place to live like many other Americans.I have a small business not sure how this will effect it but also have a part time job.
Mentally controlled media minds,being panicked by media,ain’t any of them have a mind of their own.
RE: Website - due to the spotlight nationwide, much traffic to the site and the servers are overloaded. Basically a DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack, just not orchestrated as a "hack".
Happens all the time to websites that generally don't get a lot of traffic, when big things happen. You have to plan for traffic like that (to be reliably "up").
one of the best and most informative things on the internet. thanks!
The fact that so little dry goods etc is manufactured in this magnificent country. Is allowed to be taken to its knees mainly because of its of out and out GREED #SMDH!!
Don't blame the citizens. The plan is beyond individuals. We have no say. It is the globalists and it's been in the making for HUNDREDS of years. Research!
You should invest in schooling because your grammar could sure use it.
If this doesn’t scream “bring manufacturing back state side” I don’t know what does.
Have to solve the reason why industry left here in the first place?
Unreasonable Union rules are one of the big ones. Having been in one , against my will, and worked with several unions, believe me, no business can function that way.
This.And "civil rights" discrimination lawsuits .
Computers are easily knocked out. Automation will be the downfall of the US
@shanedavison7473 good point. Look at the voting machines :(
@@clroger4BullShit! Union’s give workers rights that protect them against corrupt corporations and their practices !
We just got the emergency recovery charge notification through today. It doesn't apply to us because we don't import or export from the US we deal only with china and indonesia, but it is still $30 per w/m extra for people who do. Our shipper reckons 5 days of disruption per day of strike action.
I was moderating another channel or would have been here. Thank you so much Sal!!
The strike barely started and my job is already making excuses as to why hours are slow. They couldn't wait.
They don’t like automation either.
Historically election years also have a slow down in the economy. My job is slow too but we are expecting a pickup in November or December.
@@metgath might not happen this year.
Thank Joe and the H….Harris.
Yea I’m about to start eating tree roots and dirt. Thanks Joe and Kackaling kamalallalalallaa
Thanks Sal, Great Job as Always, Really Appreciate all of Your Information 😊🙏
My job relies partially on shipping internationally. Thank you for this.
GREAT JOB SAL!!!!
Thank you for this videi it has given me so much information and insight and understanding
Im 100% against this strike. 1st they make 33$/hr starting out. And then turned down a 50% pay raise. I say hire new workers, i know many MANY pll that would love to make 33/hr.
You're amazing your podcasts has developed ❤
Seems like the ILA is getting a bit greedy…
Heard Sal on XM Patriot today. Sounded good. The host (Wilkow?) kept Sal on for a long segment.
Thank you for your great work; very educational and informative. Automation is here and will be used for the ports. It’s inevitable.
When your weak it is.
Unions would rather see the ports close, then lose membership to automation.
Catching up now... that was actually the best VP debate in my lifetime I thought, and I don't care for either candidate personally. Pushes me even more towards one candidate.
Thanks Sal. I worried honestly about hearing a “leaning” story (left, right, labor, union, capitalism, whatever) and I think you did a really good job here of giving both praise and criticism where applicable.
I think that kind of skill is far too underrated, and wanted to say you’re awesome for it.
Thank You Sal!
I have no direct skin in this game but my two cents automation is a national security issue we already have foreign ownership if they automate and control from the web the ports can be shut down during a critical time we have to think clearly
Good point. The issue is then who owns the port and who controls the software that runs the port. I don't have a problem with smart ports but I don't want my country's smart ports or the software that runs them owned by the Chinese or Russians or Israelis or Saudis or etc etc
Same with humans right now, they can just shut it down anytime they want. Difference is, if it’s a hack, it’s easier to solve in an hour or less, but humans on strike? That takes days and months. Think about it this way, everyone has smartphones, if it’s so easy to use tech to cripple the economy, just shut down the entire telecommunication network. That would do more damage in a day than a port shutting down in a week
Thank you for the updates
Oh yeah their low men start at $38.71. There are zero ILA members who make $20 an hour.
Very Knowledgeable!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Bring in automation ASAP!!
Automation never goes on strike. And it never asks for a lifetime free ride pension
I also got nothing as an essential worker during Covid. The media is still saying we had all this time off during the plague but millions of did not and we didn't get a dime extra for working so your point of view is a little off.
My company gave us some bonus incentives for working O-T, until they hired en mass "unskilled" labor to cut our hours. They then got the State of CA to pass a law eliminating overtime past 8 hrs and only after 40 hrs total. All while the company was receiving COVID funds from the government aka taxpayers! The whole incentive for voluntarily working 4-10's was the overtime! Those on UI got $600 dollars per week extra, which would have been nice, but I wanted the safety of having a job to go to everyday when store shelves were bare.
Sal your fantastic
Thanks for your hard work!
Thousands upon thousands of Americans hit by the hurricane ..devastation is mind blowing …this strike on the supply chain is going to hit them hard..harder than the rest of us ..no concern shown at all not a single mention.. Support for them supersedes all
The union workers only care about themselves. And so do you.
We ain't giving you no 77% raise. No matter how long the strike takes. I'm pissed off and ready for this strike to go until next year. Screw those dock workers and Union workers
okay Ebenezer Scrooge
@XerrolAvengerII he's right. You're setting a presidence by holding the country hostage. Give them a raise, not 77% over 6 years. That's 10% every year gor the next 6 years compounded annually... the rest of us gets 3% raise annually and inflation, is 4%. Where's the added value? Let them strike, I'm ready not to spend. This is getting rediculous.
Sal don’t forget trash container barges coming out of Elizabeth by SIU and also staten island NY terminal ILA is moving in and out of NY.
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Thanks for the info and your time
Thank you Sal. This explained a lot. I hope the strike rnds spon
Again thank you Sal
"Day 1". Brave. I'll check back at Day 50 and see how you're doing :)
70% raise? Wow I’m in the wrong business as an engineer.
It’s over the life of the new contract, works out to roughly a 12% annual increase of total package. Not strictly in pocket. It gets distributed to Wage, benefits, retirement, medical.. we are talking about a couple cents or maybe a dollar rationed out to each.
Still a wild increase each year above and beyond other workers across the US. So if the economy crashes, we still have this liability growing for 6 years. Excess inflation from greed with little reflection on what is means to the US in the long run.
They are greedy. Screw them. We can hire temps
@@ruffthecow88905$ a year increase to salary over the kife of the contract. Also medical retirement and all that are still benefits paid to employees. You cannot act like that is nothing.
@@ruffthecow8890 Ya right and they threaten all of us for just that ok. threaten our country and all its people I now care nothing of this person of press release when they say without saying it, they are my enemy "unless".
Shoutout to the Crowley maritime port in Jacksonville!
Thanks Sal for explaining this crazy strike.
Always stay awesome
I have pull container for 20 years the crane operators Do Not CARE they make truck drivers wait for 4,5,6 hours just because they can … let the computer control cranes do the work as they are more efficient 👍
Their silent strike in 2021 caused a parts shortage, and I lost my truck because I couldn't keep up with the payments when it broke down. Fuck them.
I agree. Port workers gets paid a lot, more than they deserve. They’re lazy and greedy and union is incentivizing them. All industries now are fully regulated there’s no longer need for union. Union are bunch of modern mafia
The computers just may be the problem, remember they only do what people set them to do. I know I work on the docks
@@sidcjr I have worked with computers for 50 years, the problem most of the time is the OPERATOR, next is the programmer.
Those machines have restrictions on them. Makes them move slower. Doesn’t help you guys 3/4 rows deep in one row.
Great channel. Very informative
Automation ALWAYS leads to a reduction in jobs, in addition to changing the types of jobs.
True.
That's why I want to know what each port operater _wants_ to spend money on, and what their financing for improvements is.
American ports have some of the lowest efficiencies in the developed world. What are port operators _actually_ willing to do . . . do they have a plan to improve, or are they only making pie-in-the-sky plans to cut _labor costs,_ as has often been done?
On the other side, is the I.L.A. willing to train its members in new skills on new equipment, without tieing any new job positions to seniority?
The biggest problem in negotiations is always the secrecy and bluster both sides maintain! If all documents, finances, and negotiations were public, negotiations would necessarily end up shorter and more fair to all involved.
@@davidgoodnow269 they need to do like long beach port. sal said it eliminated 800 jobs by being automated. that's great
Engine oil gave me cancer. I didn't cry about it, I changed careers and buil myself all over again. These guys are babies
Thanks!
Thanks Sal!
Bring back the Pinkertons!!
Oct. 1 our manager over capacity finally acknowledged strike but says it won't slow us down until next week. We get our container freight from a consolidator company. Before today I only knew about strike from this channel. I'm sure hoping someone up the supply chain saw this coming and pre loaded our peak products. This month going forward was our receiving ramp to holiday store replenishment. Plus I can't say that I've seen our Black Friday specials have arrived. I'm supposing the I.L.A. is wanting the retail association to lean hard on the USMX.
The big companies already know Black Friday is not going to be big this year🎉 with the slowdown in the economy this will just be a good excuse for the layoffs
Omg I found u're channel at the right time, talk about fate 😅 be following just from the start of the Yemeni blockade. What an eventful few month regarding shipping these has been
Hey Einstein, it's "your", not "u're". Where did you learn that idiotic shit?
Time to modernize the ports so we can lower costs of goods on the shelf.
Thanks, Merco!
I was told our port here in west palm beach wont be affected is that true its called the port authority here inwpb
Automation is inevitable! Trying to fight it is like 18th-century weavers fighting the Spinning Jenny.
Yet. Every political candidate promises more jobs.
Neo-Luddites
@@CryptoGeneYus Well you can produce more jobs easily...start a war. Bam 10,000+ jobs in an instant. 😂
In all seriousness automation isn't the issue, all jobs are affected by automation either be able to re-specialize or redefine the paradigm of what your job's role is.
What kills jobs permanently is inflation and foreign jobs caused by high costs in the US which PERMANENTLY removes that job position from the US.
It's not about fighting automation, is about who gets to reap the rewards of automation. If workers own the means of production then automation means less work for everyone, with out a reduction in pay. If a few fat cats own the automation then they will reap extraordinary profits while their former employees are made homeless.
@@g.j.2950 The owners of the means of production reap the rewards.
Prioritize investment in productive assets, throughout your working life, if you want financial security.
Everyone in the USA has the opportunity to do this. But few understand how the economy work.
Without efficiency upgrades, the USA will go down the path of decreased quality of life, DEBT, and irrelevance
A free market means that incentives are neither enhanced nor hindered or leveraged in any economically unnatural way. This includes minimum wage, which is a form of price control. Let each market participant find their own niche and negotiate their own compensation via their value provided. Price discovery needs to be natural and negotiable. This is my opinion after years of studying economics and economic history.
Thanks Sal
You don't get to have market price discovery when you have one or a very small number of parties on one side of the operation like you have with very large employers. There is something called the theorem of the second best. It says that in such a situation you get a better situation when you have two very large parties that negotiate with each other rather than one very large and many individuals, hence the need for unions.
Kym in Darwin, Australia. Our former Prime Minister Bob Hawke was previously our national labor leader, each year leading the unions national minimum wage negotiations. After long days and nights negotiating, when the employers and union reps were close to a deal, Bob would keep the hot, delicious pizzas out in the corridor, just steaming away with the smell drifting in. He would say, “ We’ve just got a few minor issues to settle - let’s fix them now - before we eat.” The starving employer reps usually caved in and agreed to the unions demands, before all enjoyed late night pizzas ! PS our Aussie stevedores (longshoremen) earn Aud $100k per year, operating dock cranes).
Kansas city mo. Shipping containers all over the place here. Rail is cheaper than trucks. Last mile intermodal deliver is common here
Harold Daggett = Frank Sobotka from The Wire, season 2 :))))
thank you
Appreciate that you don't push any sort of political agenda. Even with content completely unrelated to politics the political slant of the creators seems to deeply soak through these days.
SUPER!
Thank you for being an excellent resource on all things shipping (and history!). And it is indeed worth pampering one's butt 🍑😁
Where's the link to John Konrad's history of Harold Dagget?
Entry level 40k ish workers have to commute or live local both require 2k/mo min for a 1BR rental. So they pile up debt waiting to get to next level pay to try to pay down debt. Thats why they work holidays overnights weekends etc and can’t plan any events or even Dr appts BCZ they never know when they’re off.
Imagine you take off and it gets busy that week - well someone else jumped in.
Also it’s not the easiest or safest job. I think the protections of pensions are absolutely paramount! THEY pay into that fund for YRS and they should get it.
Then quit and find another job
"Yes, we have NO bananas today"
Well that’s just bananas. 🥸
I know that song
Solidarity !!!
Thanks
I dont think this will end soon. My Prayers that it does end asap.
It's not. It's an election year
Interesting: The ILA is arguing on a global scale, and requesting the US gov to be a partner in that effort
Youll have us to play with. Ive already been doing that quite a bit.
45:52 at my last job we started with 3 trucks and at our peak we had 15. Almost 3 years in we dropped back down to 3 and then boom…. Bankruptcy. Mostly cause of the rates…
Time to pay up !
I went to John Konrad on your suggestion, and there are CLEAR biases that make me doubt his coverage. No, thanks.
💯 on the ILA Communication comment. I will add that it’s Ultimate responsibility of the ILA to ensure, and initiate communication, being that the ILA is the only center point between all the owners of the ports, and all the shipping companies. Daggett has failed not only the union, all of us who depend on the services of the union to receive products to keep our daily lives moving, but also the world economy. So when Daggett say they will get what they deserve, I truly hope he gets it. It’s 2024 we all have the power of communicating and connecting with anyone on the face of the Earth, with a small phone that sits in the palm of her hand. Get back to work Dang it!
He made 901k last year lol
$38M caught me off gaurd. I thought it would be more.
Union president doesnt want to lose his union dues to robots.
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Reports are The union was offered almost 10% a year for 6 years plus freeze automation the union said no. They want over 70%
We will just do things our selves until this is resolved the ila is a good thing to keep around so I say good luck getting what they want cause I don't see any one budging on this Mexican standoff
Union contracts have an end date, If a new contract is not ratified by that end date and no extensions are agreed to , the Union is on strike.
The timing of the strike is particularly nasty given the catastrophic storm damage to 6 or 7 states in the southeast. Rebuilding that infrastructure will be on hold as long as these ports are closed. But the implications for the bankruptcy of thousands of businesses and Farms will be vastly underestimated. The overall impact on the job market will be catastrophic and the impact on the market will be catastrophic. This could be the event that touches off the major collapse the shtf event that people have been fearing for the last several years.
Union scumbags don't care.
reconsider your information sources.
Cool response bro
It’s the blood flow of our country,shutting it down is a heart attack waiting to happen.chaos is going to be immense.
They're still in RESCUE MODE.
Recovery and Rebuild is a long way off yet.
And that's for those that actually get a quick insurance payout, which likely won't happen.
I need a good job time to start working on my port application 😂😂!!
hey sal any input on why container volume is so slow in seattle? its been slow for quite some time wondering if it will pick up at all due to this east coast strike
We need to have more manufacturing in the US, and the strike will make this happen.
Umm no we don’t. People don’t want to work those jobs and the ones who do want to make 6 figures to do so. Hence why we are here. I don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for goods or anything of that matter. American labor is expensive. Not only that but it will destroy our land.
Manufacturing will always go to the country that can make it cheaper and better, and that's not the USA.
Agree, but there is a lack of skilled workers, primarily because of the big companies reluctance to take responsibility into educating a skilled workforce.
The US should use the German model where the companies take pride in educating their own skilled workers
@@MrCrossface007 As China slows down we will have to get it made elsewhere or make it ourselves and pay more or do without
@@mattben who can afford to pay more? People are having a hard time paying the prices of goods now. Looks like we will have no choice but to do without
Sal, shipping by truck is not cheaper than by ship. You said shipping by truck is down to $2/mile. How many tons is this? We know shipping charges are by weight, right? Figure in the weight and do the math and you will find that the rate per lb or ton Is substantially cheaper by rail than by truck and cheaper by water than either rail or truck. Basically ships offer a volume discount because you can move so much more mass on a large ship than you can on a train or semi truck.
The economy is crushing all of us. The dock workers have a lever to pull to help themselves out of this mess, at the expense of the rest of us. Couldn’t they give us some time to recover before they hose us?
Nope. People. Including Union workers only care about themselves. And so do you. You want to postpone a strike because you didn't prepare. Sorry Charley. I'm not even a Union worker. But I am ready. Let them go as long as it takes. No way. No more money Union boys
Great information! My question is, won't his workers and their families start to suffer under these conditions as well??? It's going to become self-defeating very soon. I was a custodian in a union job and a shop steward for eight years... you're absolutely right about automation where it makes sense. You cannot compromise on certain aspects that require a human touch, but when it comes to efficiency, you can't have it both ways. At the end of the day, if you work a job that grows in technology in any way maybe consider yourself a part of that progress and take the experience. Union jobs tend to hold themselves back to an unhealthy place. Thanks for this video, this has been incredibly insightful 😊
There not suffering not at 100.000 a year let the workers starve
Workers demanding 70 an hour lol. Most people in the US don't even make 20
Most people in US don't make Millions by playing with money on wall street, talking about parasites
@@RipliWitani you've got the rhetoric backwards. what's ridiculous is the low pay that employers are willing to offer. the workers are entitled to demand just compensation for their dangerous and critically important job. Just because you won't fight for yourself doesn't mean you have to drag down the people who will.
@@tissuepaper9962 Just because your boss makes more money than you does not mean you deserve more money.
Money aside the question of BLOCKING automation measures in Long Beach being implemented on Atlantic and Gulf ports seems like its a failed Strategy
I disagree with Sal..I think he would make an excellent Secretary of Transportation (but not under Harris/Walz Administration)
If inflation wasn’t so high, their demands for wage increases wouldn’t be so high. 85k is no longer enough to support middle class in northeastern states. This is the fault of the government that created this environment. This is very disappointing and I hope this gets resolved quickly
Yeah unskilled Dock Workers do not need to start a $40 an hour and $70 after 3 years 🎉 bringing the robots bring in the immigrants we just brought in🎉 get rid of the Union
How will this impact WNC, TN, SC, FLA, and Ga. receiving supplies?
The union does not care about them. They are just self-centered.
I think of Kevin O'Leary everytime I watch this channel 😂 This guy seems cooler tho
Kevin has nothing in common with you
The Politicians are gonna tap dance around this situation till election is over, they can’t afford to lose the votes this close to an election