People have no idea what we do .the hours we put in to keep the economy going , everything we use in our daily lives comes through the ILA ports . The FOREIGN companies that own the ships. And YES …OWN LAND IN OUR COUNTRY all the ports in ny/nj is foreign owned no such thing as American stevedores, are making billions and billions in profits off of the backs of hard working Americans .. during Covid store shelves were somewhat stocked..We worked through the pandemic 24/7 to keep products coming into this country if we hadn’t there would of been absolutely nothing in the stores. The average person doesn’t think how products make it to the store shelves POOF! It magical appears. NO!! It’s a longshoreman a trucker a Warehouse man that brings these things to you….
@@user-wc5lw7ps6h1I mean if a jobs doesn’t pay enough to live of course is going to happens. Imagine work 6 or even 7 days and still can’t afford to buy a house? Hello?
Joe Biden and the US Congress with throw the Longshoreman UNDER the BUS just like how the Railroad Workers Union was thrown Under the Bus when they tried to strike.
They would rather give illegals $13,000 a month for doing nothing I'm a trucker and brokers are killing the supply chain and now I can say half if the drivers already quit and over 100k carriers went out of business and I think we need a strike to let people know without port workers or truckers because only 30% of our freight goes on the trains
I say fire them all and hire people who will appreciate the job. These ignorant selfish strikers are willing to let the entire country suffer because they think they deserve more pay. Unemployment is at an all time high, people cannot find a job, cannot afford to buy food to feed their families. This is ridiculous to do this now. We are in a recession. By the end of 2024 it will be the worst recession in history. This is not the time for a strike. This is not the time to be demanding more pay. This is a time to appreciate the job and pay you have because their are plenty of Americans who wish they could have what these dock workers have. We have millions who just lost their homes, their businesses. We have millions of people being layed off all over the world. We have food shortages and sky rocketing prices. No one can afford to buy a new home. No one an afford a new vehicle. Many cannot afford to pay their bills. CC Debt is thru the roof. This is insanity at its finest.
Good, taking inflation into account that seems appropriate. If families are going to survive and thrive, workers need to be compensated for their time.
I don't know why is a topic of conversation to ask for decent income, how do they think people are able to come to back to work for them if they not able to make a living? This is easier than common maths. If the economy goes up why don't you the common addition of increasing wages to support it?
They want us poor. They hate the idea of the common man breaking out and living free. There will never be another "livable wage". These strikes are the only thing that can irritate the system into paying attention. Same if people just stopped paying taxes in mass. But don't hold your breath on this changing. Doesn't matter who is elected either. We're going to get crushed until WE, not some politicians, WE do something about it.
Our big corporations sold us out to China years ago so instead of workers here making things we have to import many of our everyday items......You reap what you sow. That being said these people work hard. I hope they are taken care of. An extended strike would be awful.
The whole economy is trash due to greed. Top dollar went up, but our lives continually get worse. With advances in technology, the regular civilian produces way more work for these companies than ever before. How is it as generations progress, the regular civilian owns less while companies make more profit??? How was the normal back in the day, big families with a home big enough to accommodate those families to now where affording to raise more than one kid is nearly impossible, and there is a housing crisis. Daycare is literally $1000 plus per kid. Everything we want to do in life is $1000 plus, and most "careers" can't even break $1000 a week after taxes. Everything looks great on paper until you pay taxes. Nobody wants to work harder just to live paycheck to paycheck anymore. It's time for employers to stop profiting so much and actually share the wealth we are making for them. Companies have more than enough money where they can over produce and continually expand at unimaginable rates now. If things aren't fixed, what will the majority have to fight for anymore. History shows that people fight for what they hold dear, if all the future holds for future generations is debt and loneliness I don't see any sustainability for the U.S..
Interesting that the Federal Government does not force arbitration for the Longshoremen's Union to talk with company owners. Last year the Federal Government forced the railroad union & rail companies to federal arbitration - avoiding a strike, stating it would hurt the economy too much.
Corporate has made profits, and can afford to pat a living wage,don't fall for the trickle down effect it didn't work and now who wants to wait again for more lies.
A society can’t function effectively when you have a bunch of factions all out for themselves. The corporations don’t care about their employees OR their customers, the politicians don’t care about them either; the politicians and corporations only care about each other as far as greasing each others wheels. The really sad part is that everyone & everything would be so much better off if we appreciated and respected everyone and had a mutual set of values. Profit at the expense of literally everything else is definitely not practical or sustainable. There’s a right way to do capitalism and a wrong way. Not all companies should be publicly traded, many of them would be much better off if they were privately owned. What are we really investing in if the profits come at the expense of everything else around us?
also I work for a federally funded transit company what they’re doing instead of offering overtime or work work opportunities what they’re doing is their cutting hours and then they’re over hiring workers
My question is why do we still have to worry about a dot strike when it affects so many people? Why aren't our docks automated like the massive docks in China that handle a lot more volume than our docks. We could do this and then we could retrain the current dock workers to hire paying technical jobs for them and their families. I’d say the solution would be to work with both the unions and tech developers to gradually phase in automation with robust retraining and compensation packages for workers. It would allow for a smoother transition that doesn’t just leave people jobless and angry. And, yeah, in the long run, it might actually create better-paying, more skilled jobs, as long as the safety net is there for workers during the shift.
@@mr.anti.conservatives-u6f longshoreman dock worker the wages are fine most longshoreman don’t know how to live within there means just because you make 100 to 150 grand a year you don’t go out and buy a 80 grand car or you don’t start two families
@@Queen_James84 >the wages are fine That isnt how capitalism works otherwise I could argue new cars should be $500. Just as companies try to set prices as high as they can before they start turning off buyers, people will sell their labor for as high as they can. And yet you are arguing against american labor to side with multinational corporations because it makes you feel good to say other are bad with money while simultaniously avoiding the same criticisms towards multinational corporations trying to avoid having their wages keep up with inflation... 🤔🤐
@@TW0man4RMY I’m not siding with nobody corporates keep you in a rat race I already freed myself because I’m not afraid to take sacrifice and have discipline I work pay time as a longshoreman and I have a business. What do you bring on the other hand to this type. I understand the inner workings of this subject and I know that a lot of the longshoremen could have been set not depending on the wages if they took sacrifice and had more discipline. And in my experience this about 70 percent of the workers I’ve encountered. I’m not making excuses so master can give me more bread crumbs off his loaf of bread.
The big companies about to say check mate after they let them strike and give them higher wages when they raise the prices of everything due to low demand and then those raises mean absolutely nothing.
If the product has already been purchased by American buyers, then this will only affect Americans. The companies that need to feel the impact will simply reroute.
@@scorpioseason3868 I'm essentially asking you to think about who they would actually replace ALL of them with at the wage they are being paid and all the potential consequences of them attempting to do so. To make the point more obvious...there's plenty of people who would play in the NBA for and NBA salary and yet...
Takes no wages but requires a massive investment upfront, in addition to the costs of maintenance/repairs/upgrades over time.. the companies manufacturing the robots aren’t going to be giving them away for free.
@@ericquinn8578 All can be amortized away. One robot replaced many humans. No health care cost. Runs 24/7. Why do I need to argue this? The upside has been extensively established.
This report is very misleading the wage increase in question is over the course of 6 years so if you factor that in its not as crazy as it sounds. Also to the job protection from automation thus people losing their jobs for not much productivity increase when you factor the number
As long as you keep working and believing in and under the current system you’re part of the problem. All they want is for you to keep working it’s always about jobs jobs jobs but as long as the government keep spending, you will have to keep working hard
This is why most unions are so important. Police unions on the other hand make it impossible to discipline bad officers and let them get away with falsifying overtime hours costing the taxpayer
Ok 77% is a bit much damn. Automation can’t be avoided and while I want that job protected to some degree as a consumer if you automate, it can reduce the cost on me. Now the thing is, it’s not as if that job that has been automated suddenly takes away a job immediately because now that automated portion of the job normally done by a robot to have a programmer somebody has to actually install the robot somebody has to verify the software works. Somebody has to actually build the robot. Automation is neither good. It’s just a tool and when there are changes in how we do things it’s usually a net positive. change is scary for a lot of people. If we can automate a lot of this process, that means we can unload ships a lot faster. If you unload ships a lot faster, you can speed up the globally economy, reducing the cost of goods for all consumers. If the cost of goods is reduced for all consumers that’s more money pump into the economy more money put into the economy means more jobs. All of a sudden that job you thought you lost it pop up somewhere else. The worker who potentially loses the job or rather the worker who wouldn’t be able to keep that job once the other person retiresto be prepared to go into another field. Don’t be prepared to be the dock worker be prepared to be the robot programmer. For the record, the robot programmer makes more money than the dock worker.
AI can already write software much faster than a programmer. AI can already design electronic circuits better than an electrical engineer. Companies use robots, automation and AI not because it costs them more employment, but saves them money by cutting employment costs. This is just a fact and they have people convinced that it will create jobs down the road, which is a lie.
Unloading ships won’t be faster automated. Skilled labor will out perform any machine program or software any day or night. Especially if said machine must be continuously connected to a stable internet 🛜 connection.
Ila only got a total of 11 percent raise over the past 6 year contract. This new contract c would keep up with inflation. Idk why ppl think union wages make everything more expensive. If everything was automated , you think companies would drop prices!? That's hilarious. They would simply keep the prices make more profit and increase them as inflation keeps going. Ila wages don't even account for 1 percent of what usmx profits every year. Their ceo gave themselves a 4 billion.... yes billion dollar bonus. There's so much that ppll don't know about this industry it's crazy
@waldoziminski1723 your point is exactly the same I was going to make again people fail to understand what is really at stake in this labor dispute. Also eveyone says it's to high but yet if they were to be in the shoes or ILA members they would not be saying a thing.
@@hybridt The whole reason we started losing our manufacturing jobs was because of two things, high labor costs, unions and crazy environmental policy some 30 years ago to CHINA and Mexico. I don't believe the younger generation understands why. I know why, I watched it happen.. Also, the U.S. now employees more people in govt. than manufacturing. According to the Labor Dept. we now have 24 million working government and 14 million working in the manufacturing sector.
Why? Originally “Communism” then “Bidenomics” Now(Kamala Harris) “Opportunity Economy” “to keep the masses confused one must constantly change the terminology” JG
Demanding a 77% wage increase is NOT the act of a group seeking a livable wage. That's ludicrous. Considering that most of these workers already start at $40+ an hour, I am not sure I have a lot of sympathy for this.
Keep believing what the media say no worker starts at 40$ an hour I know that for a fact and another thing don’t have sympathy for Ila we don’t need or want it we will be fine
China does not allow high wages because China is a manufacturing power, if China's wages are too high will produce inflation, Higher costs are then bad for international trade. China's low-wage purchasing power is not low.
Oh no, cartel shipments of tons of drugs will not get through in time for the holidays. Colombian and Mexican drug lords should kick in for pay raises.
So they are going on strike to get more money but in doing so they are going to make me and many like me lose and miss out on money. Gee thanks my fellow blue collar workers!!!!'. Signed a port truck driver
If your father really is that, then you would know the first and main reason that has caused the strike is not about money. Money is ALWAYS discussed during contracts. That’s nothing new. It’s about a foreign company running automation in American ports with a contract that states no automation and putting American workers out of jobs. It’s a bit disingenuous for you who isn’t in the business to tell someone they make enough. And I know as my grandfather, Dad, Uncle brother and myself all have or currently work at the port.
@@Project-Vikingthese people have no clue how many hours are put into the job. Sacrifices made with our families. Working holidays, no set hours, working in treacherous weather, but we’re greedy not the company. They’d rather see the business make the money and not the hard workers.
What will the world look like when machines take everyones jobs? Who pays taxes? This is a humanitarian issue. This fight is for the future of our country.
@@billyblanks6730 would you have said that during the Industrial Revolution that turned the the US into the worlds most powerful nation? It’s called evolution. Hop aboard or get left behind Bubba.
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The economy comes to a halt without our foundation of hardworking blue collar workers. They deserve respect and a livable wage.
@@-DMthe employer makes so much money while he gives his employees peanuts....
@@-DMStay mad.
@@-DMOh those poor executives, how will they afford their third yacht?!
They already make more than the average American! The average American should go on strike.
@@-DM you come and work 80 week and holiday holidays not spent with your family
People have no idea what we do .the hours we put in to keep the economy going , everything we use in our daily lives comes through the ILA ports . The FOREIGN companies that own the ships. And YES …OWN LAND IN OUR COUNTRY all the ports in ny/nj is foreign owned no such thing as American stevedores, are making billions and billions in profits off of the backs of hard working Americans .. during Covid store shelves were somewhat stocked..We worked through the pandemic 24/7 to keep products coming into this country if we hadn’t there would of been absolutely nothing in the stores. The average person doesn’t think how products make it to the store shelves POOF! It magical appears. NO!! It’s a longshoreman a trucker a Warehouse man that brings these things to you….
And what is your current salary and what are you asking for?
@@ericgrenke6405 Facts
@@TheOLsnaps well, since they're going on strike, i'm guessing their salary is "not enough."
Use caution. I hear there are hundreds of Venezuelan and Haitian crane operators with decades of experience just waiting to take your job.
Bidenomics
BS. These DEI guys retire at 50,
As Millionaires.
What does that have to do with DEI they are under paid & the port operators don’t want to play ball.
Let's hope this doesn't happen. It will hurt everyone and our economy.
Nobody wants to work nowadays.
@@user-wc5lw7ps6h1I mean if a jobs doesn’t pay enough to live of course is going to happens. Imagine work 6 or even 7 days and still can’t afford to buy a house? Hello?
They aren’t paying enough to live
@@mayy9685bs those guys get retire millionaires
The simple solution to this strike and the Boeing one? Reallocate part of the CEOs pay to employees 🤷🏻♂️ they really don’t need that much money
Joe Biden and the US Congress with throw the Longshoreman UNDER the BUS just like how the Railroad Workers Union was thrown Under the Bus when they tried to strike.
Sounds like a person who doesn’t mind getting paid their worth.
TAX US LESS AND STOP BLOWING MONEY ON UKRAINE! TAX TAYLOR SWIFT, SHE GIVES NOTHING BACK FROM HER BILLIONS!
Yeah..cut the fat and stop the golden parachutes! Pay the people that are doing all of the work!!
I say this all the time. No one person needs millions of dollars in bonuses… nor in annual salary.
Ok, time to stock up!
ILA STONG
They would rather give illegals $13,000 a month for doing nothing I'm a trucker and brokers are killing the supply chain and now I can say half if the drivers already quit and over 100k carriers went out of business and I think we need a strike to let people know without port workers or truckers because only 30% of our freight goes on the trains
DOCK WORK sounds like HARD WORK.... Hope they reach a deal!!!!
It’s hard and dangerous.
These Libertarian types just don’t get it. Workers need a good wage.
@@PUFFYADDERSONSFakeNewsAN-qv4ku it’s not hard dangerous yeah but hard no the weather is the second risk first risk is people
I say fire them all and hire people who will appreciate the job. These ignorant selfish strikers are willing to let the entire country suffer because they think they deserve more pay. Unemployment is at an all time high, people cannot find a job, cannot afford to buy food to feed their families. This is ridiculous to do this now. We are in a recession. By the end of 2024 it will be the worst recession in history. This is not the time for a strike. This is not the time to be demanding more pay. This is a time to appreciate the job and pay you have because their are plenty of Americans who wish they could have what these dock workers have. We have millions who just lost their homes, their businesses. We have millions of people being layed off all over the world. We have food shortages and sky rocketing prices. No one can afford to buy a new home. No one an afford a new vehicle. Many cannot afford to pay their bills. CC Debt is thru the roof. This is insanity at its finest.
Dude a 77% raise is crazy lol. Good luck.
They want to go from $39/hr or $78,000/yr to $69/hr or $138,000/year.
Mis leading report this report fails to mention that the wage increase would be over the course of 6 years
It also fails to report that longshoremen are not guaranteed work. Some weeks, you make 40+, and others, you make nothing.
@@claudewilliams1224 200% right
Great point. It's a shape job, no hours are guaranteed.
Good, taking inflation into account that seems appropriate. If families are going to survive and thrive, workers need to be compensated for their time.
I don't know why is a topic of conversation to ask for decent income, how do they think people are able to come to back to work for them if they not able to make a living? This is easier than common maths. If the economy goes up why don't you the common addition of increasing wages to support it?
This is why I prep
They want us poor. They hate the idea of the common man breaking out and living free. There will never be another "livable wage".
These strikes are the only thing that can irritate the system into paying attention.
Same if people just stopped paying taxes in mass.
But don't hold your breath on this changing. Doesn't matter who is elected either. We're going to get crushed until WE, not some politicians, WE do something about it.
Let them quit and then pay a decent wage to others. Unions are a thing of the past. Now its just about greed.
Our big corporations sold us out to China years ago so instead of workers here making things we have to import many of our everyday items......You reap what you sow. That being said these people work hard. I hope they are taken care of. An extended strike would be awful.
The whole economy is trash due to greed. Top dollar went up, but our lives continually get worse. With advances in technology, the regular civilian produces way more work for these companies than ever before. How is it as generations progress, the regular civilian owns less while companies make more profit??? How was the normal back in the day, big families with a home big enough to accommodate those families to now where affording to raise more than one kid is nearly impossible, and there is a housing crisis. Daycare is literally $1000 plus per kid. Everything we want to do in life is $1000 plus, and most "careers" can't even break $1000 a week after taxes. Everything looks great on paper until you pay taxes. Nobody wants to work harder just to live paycheck to paycheck anymore. It's time for employers to stop profiting so much and actually share the wealth we are making for them. Companies have more than enough money where they can over produce and continually expand at unimaginable rates now. If things aren't fixed, what will the majority have to fight for anymore. History shows that people fight for what they hold dear, if all the future holds for future generations is debt and loneliness I don't see any sustainability for the U.S..
She needs to tell the truth, talk about the 4 billion, 1 CEO got
Company made 80 Billion, CEO took 4 billion for himself. And they say the longshoreman are greedy.
So he made 5% for running the company.
@@c827q no that’s the bonus he gave himself at the end of the year
@@SupremeKii 91.5 billion, 😫
TAX ALL THE BILLIONAIRE CELEBS THAT DO NOTHING WITH THEIR MONEY FOR THEIR FANS!
Interesting that the Federal Government does not force arbitration for the Longshoremen's Union to talk with company owners. Last year the Federal Government forced the railroad union & rail companies to federal arbitration - avoiding a strike, stating it would hurt the economy too much.
Hope they get automation to resolve this forever.
Well if they're that darn important, then maybe they should be paid like they're important.
Automate the Ports.🇺🇲
Corporate has made profits, and can afford to pat a living wage,don't fall for the trickle down effect it didn't work and now who wants to wait again for more lies.
A society can’t function effectively when you have a bunch of factions all out for themselves. The corporations don’t care about their employees OR their customers, the politicians don’t care about them either; the politicians and corporations only care about each other as far as greasing each others wheels. The really sad part is that everyone & everything would be so much better off if we appreciated and respected everyone and had a mutual set of values. Profit at the expense of literally everything else is definitely not practical or sustainable. There’s a right way to do capitalism and a wrong way. Not all companies should be publicly traded, many of them would be much better off if they were privately owned. What are we really investing in if the profits come at the expense of everything else around us?
As a conservative, I side with the Union.
I am a 21-year ILA member with multiple family members dating back to prior to the 1950s. We are all conservatives.
77% increase!! Ridiculous! Everything will cost more for us. Get reasonable!
Its called Leverage.
also I work for a federally funded transit company what they’re doing instead of offering overtime or work work opportunities what they’re doing is their cutting hours and then they’re over hiring workers
My question is why do we still have to worry about a dot strike when it affects so many people? Why aren't our docks automated like the massive docks in China that handle a lot more volume than our docks. We could do this and then we could retrain the current dock workers to hire paying technical jobs for them and their families. I’d say the solution would be to work with both the unions and tech developers to gradually phase in automation with robust retraining and compensation packages for workers. It would allow for a smoother transition that doesn’t just leave people jobless and angry. And, yeah, in the long run, it might actually create better-paying, more skilled jobs, as long as the safety net is there for workers during the shift.
Just like Elon Musk, the world's richest man, demanded $50,000,000,000 before he would work again, and he got it. These workers deserve better wages.
Preach.
@@mr.anti.conservatives-u6f longshoreman dock worker the wages are fine most longshoreman don’t know how to live within there means just because you make 100 to 150 grand a year you don’t go out and buy a 80 grand car or you don’t start two families
@mr.anti.conservatives-u6f yes so do I but there aren't any unions for this dock worker
@@Queen_James84 >the wages are fine
That isnt how capitalism works otherwise I could argue new cars should be $500. Just as companies try to set prices as high as they can before they start turning off buyers, people will sell their labor for as high as they can. And yet you are arguing against american labor to side with multinational corporations because it makes you feel good to say other are bad with money while simultaniously avoiding the same criticisms towards multinational corporations trying to avoid having their wages keep up with inflation... 🤔🤐
@@TW0man4RMY I’m not siding with nobody corporates keep you in a rat race I already freed myself because I’m not afraid to take sacrifice and have discipline I work pay time as a longshoreman and I have a business. What do you bring on the other hand to this type. I understand the inner workings of this subject and I know that a lot of the longshoremen could have been set not depending on the wages if they took sacrifice and had more discipline. And in my experience this about 70 percent of the workers I’ve encountered. I’m not making excuses so master can give me more bread crumbs off his loaf of bread.
The big companies about to say check mate after they let them strike and give them higher wages when they raise the prices of everything due to low demand and then those raises mean absolutely nothing.
Prices dont rise due to low demand....they fall...
If the product has already been purchased by American buyers, then this will only affect Americans. The companies that need to feel the impact will simply reroute.
Reducing the amount of buyers effects the suppliers...
Maybe these workers wouldn’t feel the need to go on strike IF THE GOVERNMENT WOULD STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EVERYONE.
Tons of people would love the wage they are currently getting. Let them quit
who
@@TW0man4RMY what do you mean who lol
@@scorpioseason3868 I'm essentially asking you to think about who they would actually replace ALL of them with at the wage they are being paid and all the potential consequences of them attempting to do so. To make the point more obvious...there's plenty of people who would play in the NBA for and NBA salary and yet...
@@TW0man4RMY they would save a ton of money though by letting quit. Because otherwise these people are going from $28-$30 to $70 an hour.
@@scorpioseason3868 And the NBA would save a lot of money cutting salaries and letting players quit as a result...
Do they know automation doesn't strike? Strikes make automation more appealing.
Automation doesn't pay taxes either
@@leoacosta768 And takes no wages.
@@leoacosta768no employer paying taxes you mean? Most Ports are privately owned and so yeah theirs that….
Takes no wages but requires a massive investment upfront, in addition to the costs of maintenance/repairs/upgrades over time.. the companies manufacturing the robots aren’t going to be giving them away for free.
@@ericquinn8578 All can be amortized away. One robot replaced many humans. No health care cost. Runs 24/7. Why do I need to argue this? The upside has been extensively established.
What is it, exactly, that you deserve, that the rest of us don't?
indian bots goin crazy lol
This report is very misleading the wage increase in question is over the course of 6 years so if you factor that in its not as crazy as it sounds. Also to the job protection from automation thus people losing their jobs for not much productivity increase when you factor the number
As long as you keep working and believing in and under the current system you’re part of the problem. All they want is for you to keep working it’s always about jobs jobs jobs but as long as the government keep spending, you will have to keep working hard
I hope the reach a deal soon…
Only if the truckers can join in it might be successful 😊
Welp time to load up on food before prices shoot through the roof
Why would food prices shoot through the roof?
She is just reading the screen. 😊😢
A RISING TIDE(GENERAL WAGE INCREASE) LIFTS ALL SHIPS(ALL WORKERS).
On The Waterfront
If it dont work than remove it from the equation and find a new formula❤
Why not just build fully automated ports like China does so they can have more time to strike?
We can and will, but first society needs to up its skillpoints in empathy first.
They don't want robots taking jobs. It's not just the money.
Strike
77% raise is not sustainable. There's tons of wasted labor and no-show jobs on the piers
77% raise is sustainable if YoY profits are 78% or higher.
They’re high balling it so the negotiations can go well.
Lisa... have you ridden the Bart line lol.... Couldn't help myself.
"We are on the right side of history" sounds like the gentry signing over their land to the king if they are killed in the crusade.
So new round of lottery coming in? Asking for a friend 😅😂
This is why most unions are so important. Police unions on the other hand make it impossible to discipline bad officers and let them get away with falsifying overtime hours costing the taxpayer
Ok 77% is a bit much damn. Automation can’t be avoided and while I want that job protected to some degree as a consumer if you automate, it can reduce the cost on me. Now the thing is, it’s not as if that job that has been automated suddenly takes away a job immediately because now that automated portion of the job normally done by a robot to have a programmer somebody has to actually install the robot somebody has to verify the software works. Somebody has to actually build the robot. Automation is neither good. It’s just a tool and when there are changes in how we do things it’s usually a net positive. change is scary for a lot of people. If we can automate a lot of this process, that means we can unload ships a lot faster. If you unload ships a lot faster, you can speed up the globally economy, reducing the cost of goods for all consumers. If the cost of goods is reduced for all consumers that’s more money pump into the economy more money put into the economy means more jobs. All of a sudden that job you thought you lost it pop up somewhere else. The worker who potentially loses the job or rather the worker who wouldn’t be able to keep that job once the other person retiresto be prepared to go into another field. Don’t be prepared to be the dock worker be prepared to be the robot programmer. For the record, the robot programmer makes more money than the dock worker.
AI can already write software much faster than a programmer. AI can already design electronic circuits better than an electrical engineer. Companies use robots, automation and AI not because it costs them more employment, but saves them money by cutting employment costs. This is just a fact and they have people convinced that it will create jobs down the road, which is a lie.
Unloading ships won’t be faster automated. Skilled labor will out perform any machine program or software any day or night. Especially if said machine must be continuously connected to a stable internet 🛜 connection.
Ila only got a total of 11 percent raise over the past 6 year contract. This new contract c would keep up with inflation. Idk why ppl think union wages make everything more expensive. If everything was automated , you think companies would drop prices!? That's hilarious. They would simply keep the prices make more profit and increase them as inflation keeps going. Ila wages don't even account for 1 percent of what usmx profits every year. Their ceo gave themselves a 4 billion.... yes billion dollar bonus. There's so much that ppll don't know about this industry it's crazy
@waldoziminski1723 your point is exactly the same I was going to make again people fail to understand what is really at stake in this labor dispute. Also eveyone says it's to high but yet if they were to be in the shoes or ILA members they would not be saying a thing.
@@hybridt The whole reason we started losing our manufacturing jobs was because of two things, high labor costs, unions and crazy environmental policy some 30 years ago to CHINA and Mexico. I don't believe the younger generation understands why. I know why, I watched it happen.. Also, the U.S. now employees more people in govt. than manufacturing. According to the Labor Dept. we now have 24 million working government and 14 million working in the manufacturing sector.
The year of the STRIKE!!!
Will longshoremen go on strike in Florida with right to work.
You don’t need more money you’re all greedy
Why? Originally “Communism” then “Bidenomics” Now(Kamala Harris) “Opportunity Economy” “to keep the masses confused one must constantly change the terminology” JG
Might be on the right aide of history but definitely chose the wrong time for the rest of us😅
🤣🤣thoese wanting to strike will hurting just as well
Artificial scarcity.
The ports could be automated right now and get rid of people. It’s a matter of time with robotics and AI They could do it now.
Demanding a 77% wage increase is NOT the act of a group seeking a livable wage. That's ludicrous. Considering that most of these workers already start at $40+ an hour, I am not sure I have a lot of sympathy for this.
No. I get paid 18 an hour working for them.
Keep believing what the media say no worker starts at 40$ an hour I know that for a fact and another thing don’t have sympathy for Ila we don’t need or want it we will be fine
@@jonathanbutts5470 Thank you for your comment.
I know people only making 18, don't believe what the media tells you @@nateh3441
@@SupremeKiiidk I have a lot of friends in Tacoma as casuals making about $50/hr starting
A friend of labor omg. Biden friend of labor
China not allowed higher pay salary
China does not allow high wages because China is a manufacturing power, if China's wages are too high will produce inflation, Higher costs are then bad for international trade. China's low-wage purchasing power is not low.
Come on people if you shut down I will not have a job really go to work wait until Trump gets elected please please please
They're doing this ish on purpose. But we gona 🙏🎶pray🎵
*Bidenomics is working well.*
Because there lazy.
Covid 2.0 without the Covid
Pay my guys ILA 1417❤😂🎉😢😮😅😅😅😅😊
just like harris and timpon bidenomics is working and say it with a smile 😊
Oh no, cartel shipments of tons of drugs will not get through in time for the holidays. Colombian and Mexican drug lords should kick in for pay raises.
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Money?😂
Great news. Duck Newsome
Easy solution hire migrants and save money 🎉🎉🎉
AND THERE IT IS. THE AMERICA FIRST COALITION HAS ARRIVED!
Get Back To Work😊😊😊
They Just Want More Money For Less Work
Thanks For the Like
😂 Biden is a friend of labor
They're a day late and a follar short. The migrants will take the jobs
So they are going on strike to get more money but in doing so they are going to make me and many like me lose and miss out on money. Gee thanks my fellow blue collar workers!!!!'. Signed a port truck driver
But people investing in domestic manufacturing win. So you want domestic, AMERICAN manufacturers to lose so you get more money??
I blame Trump
No need to strike. You guys get paid good enough. I know as my father is a majority owner of a large port operator.
It must be true since you said so 😮
If your father really is that, then you would know the first and main reason that has caused the strike is not about money. Money is ALWAYS discussed during contracts. That’s nothing new. It’s about a foreign company running automation in American ports with a contract that states no automation and putting American workers out of jobs.
It’s a bit disingenuous for you who isn’t in the business to tell someone they make enough. And I know as my grandfather, Dad, Uncle brother and myself all have or currently work at the port.
Your dad makes plenty of money from their labor. Pay up or do it yourself.
@@Project-Vikingthese people have no clue how many hours are put into the job. Sacrifices made with our families. Working holidays, no set hours, working in treacherous weather, but we’re greedy not the company. They’d rather see the business make the money and not the hard workers.
Lmao 🤣 sure he is
Automatic job's in ports
Shut it down
Give them job protections and the strike will end.
90% can be replaced with automation. Y’all should have seen it coming and done something then instead of whining about it now.
What will the world look like when machines take everyones jobs? Who pays taxes? This is a humanitarian issue. This fight is for the future of our country.
@@billyblanks6730 would you have said that during the Industrial Revolution that turned the the US into the worlds most powerful nation? It’s called evolution. Hop aboard or get left behind Bubba.