Day 2 Port Strike Recap | What the Truck Oct 2, 2024
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October 3, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - appears on @FreightWaves What the Truck to discuss the events of Day 2 of the International Longshoreman's Association and US Maritime Alliance
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🚨UPDATE: Hearing that ILA President Harold Daggett will have an announcement at 09:30 AM on Thursday, October 3.🚨
Well, that could be good... (i.e. they accept a deal) or it could be very bad. Don't panic buy, but stock up on the essentials.
No one will be watching Daggett's announcement.
They'll all be far too busy searching for elusive toilet paper and bottled water.
The Ila president is being paid to cause this chaos for a reason.
@@blaydCAlol just absolutely making shit up
Western NC says Hey @@blaydCA
Thanks for keeping us informed. Another great job Sal !!
Saw you on a random news clip of a big network... good work, Sal. Cheers, be safe.
These workers need to be held financially liable (if not criminally charged) for the damages they are incurring
Sal, your hard work and God given gifts have sure paid off. I fully expect to see you appointed as head of the IMO or MARAD! You are maritime shipping's rising star.
Thank you to What the Truck and Mr. Mercogliano for the information.
Sal - appreciate the information and clarity you provide in these posts.
Great coverage Sal
As an Ohio farmer our grain elevators are very automated now……much faster (and safer). This strike has been on agricultures radar for months, our government has been asleep on this …….amazing!
What does faster mean when jobs are being wiped out by automation, your job is next. And no this wont be a utopia where nobody works.
@@TacticalRuseamen
Add senile, and drunk too, just like everything else in the world.
Our government has been asleep literally 18 hours a day.
Not asleep, backing the shipping donors instead of the people.
Thank you Sal for another informative, and thought provoking video update from
Gabriel of Norway.
(Captan, retired)
I was tired before, now I'm tired again: Hence 're-tired'.
17:32
😂
Let the machines come. You shouldn’t have picked a fight with the American Public
They are the American public. The machines will just put money in the pockets of foreign shipping companies.
Thank you, Govt is part of this, clearing the ships and containers.
Thank you sal !! You have been the absolute best with information from both sides and an ⚓ to the American people
There needs to be a law that you are not allowed to strike if you have not been in negotiations every day for 60 days straight. In cases like this all parties should be sitting in jail cells when not physically at the negotiating table. Make them eat jail food and live like prisoners and they just might get their heads out of their asses and come up with a fair contract.
I'm sick of them saying 'we worked during covid', you know what? As a RN/Paramedic I also worked my ass off during covid as did other healthcare providers, our bonus? Daily exposure to covid. They should all be let go, bring in the military until they can hire non-union workers along with automation.
A lot.of RNs got paid an increase in wages. Working for a company like Aya and even reports came out saying how wages started decreasing as covid resolved
How can you possibly be angry with people who are willing to do what you didn't or could not do? Every hospital ceo is a millionaire and the big system ceo's like Providence and UPMC are billionaires or close to it. Those guys laid nurses off while getting covid money they spent on stock buybacks. To this very day, they squeeze staffing at the expense of patient safety and employee health.
If automation was going to replace you, which btw is a very real possibility. Would you fight that? If all of the sudden your pension, income, and fiscal security were to disappear, would you be whistle the same tune?
These foreign companies raised the cost from 6k--30k per container, whereas the cost of inflation by longshoreman wages only consists of around 1% of the total cost of shipping.
I feel like a guest at a Diddy party. I am getting screwed by everyone at the party. The Government, the corporations, and the Unions.
This joke has to stop. Come up with your own joke.
With no baby oil, even!
Copy and paste pasta on every video. Give it a break
@@Brobrobagins420 spread that Diddy joy
@@Moorfeeeuswhy did you have a Diddy encounter
If someone offered me a 50% pay increase my jaw would drop…… I understand the frustration with automation and don’t know the answer to that but I am sure someone in the industry has some middle ground answer. Of course the ones suffering the most is going to be us, the average American who will have to pay more for everything that already costs more……..
but it sounded like the ILA doesn't want any automation to include automated gates where the trucks go through to get into the ports.
@@andrewschliewe6392now that's just ridiculous if true .....
OF COURSE THEY AUTOMATE. Times always change!
as we should
Hopefully all their jobs will be automated away.
I met Mike Shevell. What a character! Great guy! He told me "Hi!" shaking my hand.."I'm Mike Shevell...I own this company!"
This strike is already affecting people. We live in a beautiful area near one of the great lakes and get massive lake effect snows each winter. We prepare for our usual winter home bound. Yesterday, we attempted to make our normal fall order of stock up goods. We were only allowed to order one each of certain items that people worry about when crisis hits. In the past years we required at least three of one and two the others.
Just hearing that ILA have been telling their people to start stockpiling months ago bummed me out even more. Kinda felt like insider trading
I'm a longshoreman they just told us to not make any big purschases Incase the contract didn't go through. It's not evil as media tries to make it sound.
Are you interested in crippling the American people like your union boss??
@@Atomicdawg19With all due respect, my guess is that you enjoy and are thankful for automated things, cars rather than walking or riding horses, refrigerators rather than root cellars, and, maybe, you are using a smart phone this very moment. I think jobs that can be done with machines are a good thing. By the way, if you enjoy Amish-like living, well, no one's stopping you. My understanding is that youall, in writing, want to stop automation yet you use cars, refrigerators and computers. I think youall are, sadly, being selfish.
Thanks for listening; feedback is welcome.
1 John 4:10,11
We really do live in the future...
Daggett talks and looks like an Organized Crime Mob Boss on an Extortion Shakedown Tour. And he wears fairy glasses.
Look aT his rap sheet it confirms this
USMX is actually organized crime though so...
And you know what? I'm on his side because he's fighting for people working jobs that actually move our society forward and against creatures who sit at a desk and make the line go up regardless of how it affects real people.
He was voted into four-four year terms, he is for his people, and the ILA members do trust him.
@@Mandatoryuserno they are being selfish at this point they can't be the only ones getting what they want, real life doesn't work that way........
Time to put the unions back in their place!
Yup I can foresee a lot of fresh anti union laws in the future
When the shortages start the entire country will turn against them replace & automate
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why is that funny?@ricardoosantos100
#true
If automation was true and inevitable why would this event be necessary? You have disproved yourself.
False
Please keep shedding light on this
I just want to say that there are people all over my neighborhood who didn't even know what a longshoreman was two days ago but now they are eager and for any chance to vote for anything that will hurt them now. They Barbara Streisanded themselves.
They were also called Stevedores and in the old days Wharfingers
Americans are a largely stupid bunch, willing to cut off the limb their standing on. After all we elected a mental president and pretended he was actually in charge. This is what sovereign debt collapse looks like.
lol… I’m supporting the Longshoremen and every other working class union member who stands up to corporate greed.
Large corporations will be thanking them for doing their job for free. It's easier to hurt workers than the ones profiting from them.
People that panic buy more toilet paper... Costco & Sam's ran out of paper towels,, TP also water as of Monday .. Lets send TP to areas in need of these items they got wiped out let's help them wipe & clean up this ship... Watch the store pricing, if you see $$ gouging speak up.. while the grocery stores automate by having self checkout, count less people working... Automation make people Fat, stress more, end up with health problems & finding other work is not easy. One job that will never automate, The Mortician ~
You have to keep in mind that the increase in salary wages, 20% of that go towards Union dues. So two things the ILA wants, they want a 77% wage increase and perm ban on Automation. So out the of 77% wage increase, 20%-25% of that is going towards Union dues and towards the ILA President, Harold Daggett's salary. He currently makes $900K per year, lives in a $10 million dollar mansion in NJ, has a bentley, and owns a 76FT yacht. You tell me, how is this guy relatable to the blue collar worker? He doesn't relate at all. He's a thug and a gangster. The ILA should be labeled as a terrorist organization, what they are doing is enacting an economic embargo on the United States of America and shutting down 2/3 of the US Economy's GDP which is a matter of national security.
Daggett lives in a $7m mansion drives around in a Bentley and is alleged to be mafia connected making almost $1m a year and he does these thuggery crap? I used to be a union member and he is the exact reason not to be
That’s good he has connections, maybe he’ll get a good deal for the long shoreman
CEO of Boeing makes 35millon a year minimum wage for his workers but he's good right? People fighting to live.
Fighting to live? Dock working make like 75k to 200k a year. Give me a break
Tankies can justify anything to get their collectivist hands on what they covet.....
Thats how every union president is... They dont work for the rank and file, they work for themselves...
Time to disband this protected racket. They literally have a monopoly over the shipping business. Bring in private investors and set up private. Docs get rid of unions completely different. They're useless. You usually have five people doing what one guy can do. By not sitting down and negotiating, every day should be a criminal offense, and these dock workers should reimburse every business that loses money due to there neglect. It would also be wise to start investigating these unions
The dock workers aren't going to come out ahead. These aren't American companies. They aren't going to play games. They could easily see how the holidays work out on strike pay.
EXACTLY, Since they will charge for ship "storage" and whatever else they can think of to monetize this debacle.
"They could easily see how the holidays work out on strike pay."
Yeah, that's why billionaires need to be severely taxed and forced to pay their employees what they are worth.
That way they can't hold people hostage for their wages.
Automation is coming to them just like everyone else. Them message to them is "Learn to code."
What concerns me is these companies are foreign, so they don't care about American people.
They may not have a job to come back to! Maybe they’re installing automation while they’re striking.
People who complain about automation should go back to farming their own food by hand and walking everywhere instead of driving and then ask them about how bad automation is
As a dairy farmer who had to work every day during COVID and we embrace automation and efficiency as much as possible. I would do what Reagen did with the ATC in the 80s get ride of them and bring in temps or international workers and start the automation process. Having a make work jobs policy is idiotic and a guge reason why productivity is down in most American industries especially the ones where unions kept technology away for long periods of time. Unions in the US seem to make everything dumber and slower, they seem to be more reasonable in say Germany but here they just divide the worlplace and make everything worse. I worked one busy season for UPS and had to join the Union and my got dis that make the drivers so hateful towards the company, and they talked about how hard tge job was and that was the absolute easiest job i ever uad in my life with pretty good pay I mean absolute cake work. I think all these union guys need to work one winter 7 days a week 14 hours a day in a tiestall dairy farm in northern NY to actually understand what real work is all about.
They are playing a very dangerous game here. If people start suffering, kids start going hungry, lots of folks are going to be looking to hold someone accountable. They don't want that kind of smoke, I don't care how tough they want to talk 💯
My thoughts exactly. When that leader said "I'll cripple you", many took that as a personal threat against the American people.
This isn't going to end well for anyone.😥
@@lorihoop3831sounds like treason to me
Y’all need to figure out a way to work and negotiate. If this strike starts hurting consumers who are already hurting you will see a backlash. Automation is inevitable. Figure out a way to work with it. This might even accelerate their efforts to automate.
True! Robots don't go on strike! This isn't helping their cause. They're gonna hustle to automate even faster.
What industry do you work in? If it isnt programming or dealing with tech hardware your job is in line to be automated. Even as a hurting consumer you have to open your eyes and hear what they're fighting for. Do not automate
@@huehuehueberteveryone’s jobs even programmers. 90% will be done by AI then you just need 1-2 people to check it.
Only ones that seem safe are if you fix the robots but then again it won’t take 400 million people to do that.
@@huehuehuebert I’m a retired fireman actually. I guess that could be automated I’m just not sure how. Your wanting to fight automation is unfortunately short term thinking. There have been struggles against this kind of progress for a century. Horses vs cars, trucks and tractors is a notable example. It WILL happen strike or not. They need to figure out how to work with it not against it. There will always be work for human beings it will just be different from what we have now.
@@huehuehuebertwe are not going back to the days of milkmen and telephone operators.
Unions started out to address real problems in industry, now unions are the real problem in industry.
Excellent coverage
Thanks for this nice upload.
“The Government will help work this out” Yeah, ok.
The Government appears to be in complete dysfunction at this time with no one steering the ship.
Obama is running the govt.
Short term gain here for ILA, long term damage to USA Companies and Consumers.
This will force automation faster. Exact opposite of what ILA wants.
Automation is inevitable. Unless humans can work more efficiently than machines.
Automation is a choice....every industry should be required to submit a plan to optimize the participation of human labor. We are the reason machines exist and we are infinitely worthy because God loves us. ✝️
Computers don't strike...
And then they cry China is taking over 'our' jobs... Why do we always end up with the dumbest people making the decisions - because they are so lightweight, they float to the top?
I agree. It seems they will reap the benefits now but the entire country overtime will suffer. Doesn’t make much sense.
@@revpgesqredux but the ILA doesn't even want automated port gates where the semi's enter the port.
No wonder the ila is wanting more money for the workers. Daggett's salary from the ila is 728,000 a year. He has two multi-million dollar homes. One in Florida and one in New Jersey.
MSCs CEO makes 4.9 BILLION 🎉
My brothers a long shoreman he said guys are pulling up to strike driving 100k cars they are asking them to park in the back as it looks bad
How ironic…
Why should any of us be impoverished? Workers are being picked clean to support the Uber wealthy.
A lot of longshoremen are also business owners and have spouses that make good money. It's not a crime to be financially well off and it makes sense to not want a nice car there with how the media has turned on them. It's not rocket science
@@Atomicdawg19Did you mean”makes NO sense “?
@@richarddietzen3137 actually, it’s ‘doesn’t make ANY sense’
That offer was a good one. The ILA is working for the WEF
Nice New England Motor Freight hat!! Trucking widow here.
Not surprised the Sec. of Commerce was oblivious
In my opinion, the ILA is losing the PR battle. Daggett is NOT a sympathetic character in the eyes of many people.
False
He is a mafia style thugs!
Makes something like $900,000 a year!
Am I the only one looking at the automated docks like they’re a fantastic advancement? We still need maintenance for them, we need installers, expanders etc.
Automation moves jobs, not delete them. We cannot hire and train humans fast enough for the expansion we needs.
He wears a chain for a reason. Just because it's gold doesn't make it any less a signal of servitude.
While the idea isn't wrong, you have to look at things from the point of view of the 40- and 50-something dockworker who has been there all their life.
If they are all without a job all of a sudden, they aren't going to find new ones easily. More; they probably won't get the same pay and will start struggling to maintain their lifestyles.
Automation will happen, just as when cars replaced horses, but there is a transition period that will cause serious pain to the people actually doing the work.
@@josephd.5524 Lack of individual adaptation should not be societies problem. We already do enough to uplift one another from the gutters. It's not as if they don't have options. They simply refuse education.
They think they're good enough, and content. Let their lifestyles crumble. Many others have it much worse.
You're correct. Same logic for self-service checkout. It eliminates a cashier but many other jobs are created.
@@simonbagelself checkout eliminates jobs not create them. Its an excuse for stores to cut number of workers = cut costs.
These guys make a lot of money already. I don't feel too bad for them.
We aren't asking you to feel sorry for us, just respect us.
@@sir1junior i do but i'm not in power. just a normal person trying to live life
Strikes always go longer than we expect.
So help me understand this.. "You can't survive without us! But also.. don't automate us!"
Daggett's statement sounded like he enjoyed the fact that this was going to hurt the American people. It made it feel like he's not negotiating against the Maritime Alliance, but against the American people. We didn't do anything to him. He could have at least focused on their conflict with USMX and been apologetic to the public.
The people don't understand how important our job is now you do.
Jesus Christ, should everything pander to you?
Boo hoo. The way the public and media treats union workers is disgusting. Ya'll are like crabs trying to pull back in the 1 who is about to escape the bucket.
The general public and media deserves nothing from union workers because of the way we are treated. We are constantly trashed on and dogged out because we are willing to withhold our labor and make sacrifices for something better.
As soon as union workers get a bonus or a raise..... businesses all over will be fighting to get us to spend our money with their businesses.
So crab on crabby, stay in your bucket.
@@sir1junior That is one sick AF immature way to communicate your need for attention and a hug. With friends like you, who needs enemies.
He flat out said he’s more important than farmers who feed his fat butt. He isn’t.
Fire them. We can replace them with Migrants who will appreciate the pay and benefits and want to work.
Hello Sal.... Great videos an informative source of information..... As yourself being in the industry for a long time... Let me ask you a question.... Do you really think that finding a job with the ILA and working on the docks is easy???... Is it an equal opportunity employer...???... Think about it....!!!.... I really don't want to be seeing replacing these union labor workers with non-union personnel.... It has happened in 1988 with the Tugboat Companies...... It's just really sad.....
truckers should use this opportunity to get the govt off our backs
Isn't the sec of commerce the one that didn't know and couldn't explain how inflation works?
I agree. The media ought to do their job and out the people behind the scenes at the maritime alliance so that we can get the whole picture. Thanks for your insight. I am worried about the unions in general all losing public support because of this. Daggett needs to talk to the American public. The timing could not be worse for our country.
Agreed, people are going to turn against unions, thus hurting the Union as a whole.
Do you know how many other factory workers there are in America that don’t make as much as they do? I don’t wanna hear them whining and then demanding 75% more that’s not negotiating at all and as far as I’m concerned, I say the big wigs fire them all and get machines and they could all get new jobs and I wonder why they got fired. Then we will never run into this problem again!!!
Look how well organized the Long Beach port is compared to some other ports.
Automation is safer, faster, and cheaper which lowers cost to consumers, and avoids downtime from strikes, etc.
My heart goes out to displaced workers, but nearly all workers in every industry are being replaced as we speak. The real question is not how to save these jobs, but instead, what is the next step in humanity?
It's inevitable, unless you want infinity Haitians.
I love those interviews with Sal
Automate the ports. They'll run better
What do you mean we can’t build new ports we just built one here in Charleston HLT
This is evil. They are hurting all the people. He will pay for this. 😢
Good luck to the ILA guys.
Bottom line... Sal, back in 1988 the tugboat companies in New York went on strike and do you really want to know what happened..?? The companies got rid of the unions fired the union crews and replaced them with non-union labor ( Scabs ) with far less wages..... The union was an lLA affiliate. I really do hope that this will not happen to the hard workers on the docks.... this strike will spill over to the US Merchant Marine as well as the union labor that provides manpower.... C'mon Sal... The writing is on the wall... My fear is that they will replace union labor on the docks with far less wages employees... Right off the street..... I Hope and Pray Not... The Taft-Hartly is a joke... Absolutely!!
Why should these workers get guaranteed $100,000 salaries for LIFE! Greedy.
Down with Daggett!
Automation is going to happen. It's cheaper in the long run, more efficient, and machines won't hold the goods hostage causing the economy problems.
You have to do what humans do best....adapt
I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to convert to automation while all the employees are on strike. Alot of unskilled labor asking for 6 figure wages.
What job are you talking about is unskilled lanor?
@@enragedteeth8499The “fireman” on a train engine that no longer has a fire in it. Union nonsense. Doesn’t take a PHD to push buttons on a machine or maintain machinery that diagnoses its own problems. Yes, some training is required, but not hard work like I did in 1970.
@@DM-zq8qy😂
@@DM-zq8qy That's what getting old is like. You feel like everything was harder for you and is easier for others now.
Shame, old people really get into that mindset. "Can't teach an old dog new tricks" though.
@@ANO-.-NYM True to an extent, I didn’t have to suffer heavy manual labor on a railroad or fishing on a river for food like my grandparents.
But I did work an 8 hour shift opening and closing 12”steam valves in a HOT steam plant BY MYSELF for $1.60 /hr in 1975.
I also worked in a Gulf (now BP) “filling station” where I greeted the customer, filled their gas-tank, checked the air in their tires, washed the windshield, checked the oil, and RAN to the office to bring back $3 change from their $20 bill.
Now you complain about waiting 15 minutes in your AC’d cars. 🤔
Truck drivers don't get container royalties. They weren't happy with 50% pay raise?!? Greedy.
Why Do These People Want Raises When It's Greatly Automated? The Truth Is You Still Need Humans Because The Automated Are Basically Computers And When They Fail What Do You Do?
Pitifully Pathetically Predictable October Distraction 🇺🇲
Imagine if we still had phone books and payphones because it wasn’t fair to eliminate those jobs that started in the 80s.
The point is that the union is getting in the way of automaton and efficiency. Supply line choke points need to be fixed.
The foreign company is a different issue. And "crippling " American consumers and businesses isn't good.
We should just automate. The companies should have to pay a pension to who ever they let go. Automation is inevitable.
These foreign companies raised the cost from 6k--30k per container, whereas the cost of inflation by longshoreman wages only consists of around 1% of the total cost of shipping.
Automation can’t be stopped. No one should loose a job to it but also no job should be replaced after that employee retires. They need to get real on that part.
Local 7 Sheetmetal workers support the ILA
I never thought Id live long enough to hear a real life super villain monologing, then Dagget comes along.
You rather take out your ire on American citizens over foreign corporations?
What are you actually talking about? it's asinine. Have you never watched Netanyahu speak? but no, the port boss, is evil.
It's all deliberate
Offered a 50% raise, guaranteed retirement payment and you said no? WOW!
Something not right!! No one would turn that down.
They're already lost popular support. Settle while you're ahead.
You're right: 13:20 where is the other side of the discussion (other associations, groups, companies)?
if they get what they are asking Im quitting to be a Doctor and move to work in the ports, WTF , did they loose their mind? they are going to get paid like a Dr and engineer combined! and I bet without any education
Sal ….W.T.F. with the fake news on major TV news stations, that port strikes maybe causing toilet paper, paper towel shortages.
The news is creating panic with all the crazy people. I wish you can speak on abc, cbs, nbc…set the record straight and get some real news and support for the ILA. My father was ILA out of Red Hook Brooklyn, and I owned an Intl Transport Co over 35 years.
Your station and news is spot on, Lots of respect for you, just get News Guys straight !!!
It took me more than six years to make six figures in my profession, too. These guys have a martyrdom complex. If they hate the work so much, they should move on to a different career field.
I think everyone needs a raise now and then but 77% over 6 years is way to excessive. .... Try owning a company and seeing how hard it is. They want paid in the good and bad times.... they dont loose everything if the company cant pay their bills..... They should be happy to have a job during these hard times.... This is too excessive of a stand for 77%
I think that they screwed themself over cuz I think the longer this goes on the ports will just put automation in the ports y they r striking that’s just my opinion I understand what they r looking for
The ILA is reigniting inflation for all Americans in pursuit of a 77% wage increase.
Let's speed up automation to reduce their stranglehold on the nation.
I look forward to the day the ILA has 6 members.
where was your outrage when Elon got a 56 billion dollar raise this year?? 1 man got a 56 billion raise!!
Automation that only benefits foreign companies
If you think automation to aid foreign companies will result In trickle down economics then you're clearly naive
@@izdalebpersonality, I was against the payout, but I'm not a Tesla shareholder
@@izdaleb he created that wealth, he deserves it. Try again.
This is not what the country needs right now.
All this will do is make shippers and ports rush to automate their ports as fast as possible. This may be a simple case of the death rattles of an industry
This is basically the industrial dilemma we see here - automation saves money until the day when there's a change that seems like a minor change occurs, then the automation has to be revised. However if that change comes 10 years from now then the automation has saved quite a bit of money.
If you don't automate then the price for handling the shipments may become too high for the shippers and they'll find another port that has better pricing and probably also higher handling speed.
Cargo handling has evolved over the years and will continue to evolve.
Sal we have always had royalties for tonnage of containers moving through ports , company’s put a limit to it before so we want that limit lifted .
It is inevitable that automation will eventually replace humans as time goes on. When the cost of human labor and its associated problems becomes too high , it motivates business to reduce the number of humans required.
Unfortunately, the American citizens are the ones who will pay the price in supply chain interruption and more inflation.
Early in my career I saw how automation was coming into and taking over a lot of the manufacturing industry. So I decided to change my path into electrical engineering so instead of being replaced by automation, I could be the guy either designing, installing, maintaining or operating the new systems. Lot's of jobs have been completed eliminated by automation and technology. But there are always other opportunities opened up.
For automation:
-Why not early retirement and more robust pensions for those closer to retirement?
-Hiring freeze for new workers?
-Education incentives for those younger workers willing to leave the industry?
-Relocation support to get workers and their families to new ports or to other jobs?
and
-Gov't investment in ports' labor in case of necessity for surge? (We see with Ukraine war, that lack of surge capacity for defense industry has caused shortages worldwide, we can't risk some AI war that breaks all automation at ports somehow, we need a surge workforce.)
-To support the surge reserve, gov't supported loans for training and full paid internship, partial year employment for existing workers, and some new workers?
-Subsidies to help with relocation for workers and their families to accomodate being where they need to be?
The gov't part would likely mean tax on shippers, so maybe they'd find it cheaper to just focus on direct worker relief for the changes from automation.
I know a guy who left the ports a couple years ago because of automation. His transition to his new position took about 3 years of settling in to now he's full self-employed in a different field. He has 4 young kids too. Even if it's only a couple thousand workers, they are good hard working people that are worth investing in by the gov't and the shippers and the bridge to tomorrow for them and their families isn't that expensive in the long run.
All of it will be passed to the consumer plus some.
That’s one healthy looking picket line, I’m sure these guys and their families are gonna starve if they aren’t paid $200,000 to operate trucks and cranes all day…
I am surprised this has gone as far as a strike
Why r u surprised?
Big companies don’t wanna pay their workers anymore than they have to! If they could get away with it, they’d bring in all illegals and pay em $100 a week
Has anyone considered that maybe that dude is being paid by powers that be to cause this chaos?
Same thing that I was thinking
That guy already makes over 700k a year
This may "break the back of the economy." As Jerome Powell said needs to happen.
Bingo!
@@johnshaw1541 $728,000 and been the pres for 10 years.. hes not for the workers.. its a joke
Ship, ship happens! Think of all those containers slipping into the sea. Robots could do a lot to mitigate that problem. Would shipping companies pay for that? Andrew Yang has a "concept" to help all of the displaced workers in America.
Daggett is on a power trip.
Hope he ends up in a trunk.
Then to the Atlantic
thank you