Land rush: Rust Belt towns turning into e-commerce hubs
Вставка
- Опубліковано 23 кві 2022
- Online retail has changed the way Americans shop, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs picking and packing products in giant warehouses that dot the landscape of cities and towns across America, many of which haven't seen well-paying blue-collar jobs in decades. Correspondent Lee Cowan visits Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley to see how one community is adapting to the challenges and opportunities of this new age.
"CBS Sunday Morning" features stories on the arts, music, nature, entertainment, sports, history, science and Americana, and highlights unique human accomplishments and achievements. Check local listings for CBS Sunday Morning broadcast times.
Subscribe to the "CBS Sunday Morning" UA-cam channel: bit.ly/20gXwJT
Get more of "CBS Sunday Morning": cbsn.ws/1PlMmAz
Follow "CBS Sunday Morning" on Instagram: bit.ly/23XunIh
Like "CBS Sunday Morning" on Facebook: bit.ly/3sRgLPG
Follow "CBS Sunday Morning" on Twitter: bit.ly/1RquoQb
Subscribe to our newsletter: cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T
Download the CBS News app: cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8
Try Paramount+ free: bit.ly/2OiW1kZ
For video licensing inquiries, contact: licensing@veritone.com
Sad that all these new jobs are based on consumption and not production.
The job I had was production. It was manufacturing.
Consumption requires production
Hopefully we will start manufacturing again in this country to avoid these delivery bottlenecks at the ports, and to support our national security.
@@billhubbell140 made by someone else
AMEN !
The steel mill, automotive, rust belt jobs were hard, but during the heyday, allowed for a solidly middle class, one earner salary. People stuck with them for a career. The Amazon-like jobs are hard, but can’t support a family and no one stays long.
I read a story last year that said Amazon wants its workers to leave after about five years. They don’t promote the warehouse employees into management. As you indicated, it’s constant turnover.
@@barbaram5214 And why they don't want a union
They were also unionized.
The Amazon workers NEED to unionize. That’s the only way that Amazon will actually listen and provide improvements for their employees. Unions are why we have a 40 hour work week and minimum wage - they were the backbone of our industry and if our industry wants to grow and provide jobs like they did 60, 70, 80 years ago then they NEED to unionize. Amazon is a giant bully and will take until someone stands up to them. This isn’t like the old days where the mobs go into the unions - these would be new unions with updated rules and policies. We have a chance to take back some of our power as the worker and give Amazon the chance to do the right thing (something they’ve failed to do over and over again). The only reason child labor stopped was because the PEOPLE stood up to it.
It's not just the blue collar jobs that supported families. From the 1950's to 1970's we had price controls and affordable housing. Deregulation ended that.
Lovely. A country fast on its way to being known as the land of warehouses & storage units, with mighty garbage dumps.
I see your point, but it's better than being know as a country of high unemployment and no future.
@@dodgerrichie7274 We used to be a country of high paying union manufacturing jobs until a bipartisan neoliberal consensus thought we should ship jobs overseas and buy cheap crap at Walmart. Every bad thing that happened in last forty years; NAFTA, repeal of Glass-Steagall, ending welfare, Iraq invasion were agreed to by both parties after taking massive campaign contributions.
@@dodgerrichie7274 - Not really - you're just seeing the new serfdom taking shape...
Already there.
@@godfreydaniel6278 Serfs actually paid less in taxes than we do now so we’re already there 🤣🤣
I live in the Lehigh Valley 20 mins from the steel mills....now we are nothing but warehouses all over....farmland mostly gone just rows and rows of warehouses everywhere and the traffic is HORRIBLE. Part of the reason is our location....2 hrs from NYC and an hr from Philly. Plus 30 mins from the Jersey border give or take.
In my hometown in Northeast Ohio (Randal Park Mall), my childhood local mall was thriving, then started to dwindle, and then eventually closed. It’s now the site of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse.
WITH CHINEESE MADE SCHHHHT! TOO
Invest in landfills. That's where the crap in ends up.
Are there going to be proper recycling centers put up? These companies are using way too much wrapping & boxing on minor items- its disgraceful
THANK YOU FOR SAVING THAT FARM LAND DUDE ! Yes!!!! Use up all the land already sitting empty.
Don't Expect Steelworkers Wages
And Unionize ASAP
Unions didn't save steel workers.
As soon as the robots come, these jobs will be gone too.
They needed to go into more detail on what kind of benefits these jobs offer. Or hours. Or retirement plan. Do a compare and contrast with a 1950s steel worker’s life.
Perhaps in another segment. 🤞
Things have devolved to what they were 100+ years ago. Labor is cheap... Keep throwing bodies at the work, until the bodies are used up.... Then go get fresh, cheap bodies to replace the old. People are just a consumable, and the actual machines get treated better than the humans. All this for what? To get cheap quality, foreign made, short lived junk that you dont need, delivered to you in an unnecessarily short period of time. Its all pretty sad... All consumption... No actual production. This is not how great nations are built, and definitely not how they are sustained.
Doesn’t compare. You could buy a decent home on a steel workers salary & they all sent their kids to college.
@@rogue13131313What do you do for a living?
There really isn't a comparison because in the 1950s, those steel workers would get a good paying job with benefits and retirement, and they worked there their entire career. The warehouse facility jobs are very physically demanding, and the turnover rate is very high, so it's a good paying job with health insurance, etc, but not physically sustainable for a career. They also use a lot of seasonal help, and I don't know what kind of benefits the temporary seasonal help gets if any.
These people used to make the products being sent out. Now they are box stuffers. Bring back the manufacturing jobs again
To heck with stuffing a box that someone else made the products.
Yes!!! This can only go so far.
No mention is made of the people in the warehouses not making a livable wage, or how it compares to the Bethlehem Steel jobs. Why didn't they interview the employees in these behemoth companies?
They’re segments are short. Perhaps in another? But yeah, they should have mentioned that the $20/hr is the same wages as 4 decades ago.
Typical American has a very low attention span
They make $15/hr. Also, the job isn't as hard or dangerous as steelworking. There is no comparison between the jobs. Still, working for less is better than not working in any decade.
I totally agree that wasn't Main St. so why say that I'm not sure. It was 3rd St. and it gets the majority of city traffic because of I78 and the connection to some warehouses. That being said, for those of you wanting CBS Sunday Morning to tell us more information, well, you're barking up the wrong tree. Their stories are short and they only have so much time to put vital information in. I agree it would have been good to talk to an employee at one of these warehouse jobs and for all we know they did, they just couldn't include it in the time they had. I'm just glad they talked about the truck traffic and pollution that stemmed from it. Also the fact that the county has worked hard to preserve some of the undeveloped space so we wouldn't become just a town of warehouses. Thank you Lamont McClure!
They did another segment on Amazon vs Unions.
That employee you speak of would have been fired or bumped off by putin wannabe in corporate mismanagement.
Don't worry, you'll get a break from the physical work when the jobs are filled with robots.
Dead end go nowhere jobs high turn over most of the steel jobs were union with excellent pay benefits and a pension where you could send your kids to college.. now those jobs are gone replaced with Amazon and Walmart where many of those employees qualify for food stamps and other public aid.
Senior executives turning most Americans into the working poor. Money is the root of all evil.
True
Does it mean it’s time to move from the rust belt?
You can’t miss the never ending miles of new warehouses over eastern PA when flying into New York.
Because these towns are desperate for jobs. Most of these companies don’t contribute much to the tax base. Or offer decent benefits.
People demand cheap goods. You cannot pay high wages to move cheap goods.
Part of Bethlehem Steel became The Sands Casino. I used to gig there. Fun place. They also have a nice ice skating rink there. Pretty neat area.
I know the communities will reinvent themselves,and become a 21st century success. This is a glorious step for the Rust Belt, GREAT NEWS.
Both my grandpas worked in the mills in Pittsburgh.
This also happened in our major cities. Philadelphia was a boom town a century ago. Factories all over even near what is now Center City/ downtown. One huge one was Baldwin locomotive.
Turning the old Baldwin factory into condos. Starting price $2.1 million.
You could never get me to work at Amazon under their current working conditions.
Not to mention too many other companies paying more money
Good cautionary tale for diversifying the municipal portfolio.
Guessing 75% of those Amazon jobs are subject to automation.
This CBS promo for Amazon ignores a few obvious but ignored facts. Amazon functions as a mostly money-losing operation propped up by Wall Street financial wizardry, tax-dodging and the ability of Chinese manufacturers to provide loss-leader electronic and home merchandise. Amazon would not have got away with its terrible worker safety record but for the fact that almost all government regulatory agencies are staffed with workers on the spectrum. Right now, Amazon Prime is using its van delivery service to undercut UPS and Fedex, to force layoffs of highly paid union drivers. Much of the profits from Amazon's AWS cloud service are from the billions of dollars in contracts it gets from federal agencies like the CIA and the Department of Defense, agencies infiltrated by the ChiComs. If someone told me that Red China was the secret source of Amazon's start-up funding, I would believe that. Destroying the American marketplace economy has always been a goal of the NWO, which backed the takeover of China by a drug-dealing rapist and criminal named Mao Zedong and which also used cut-outs to back Jeff Bezos.
I would think a lot of rust belt cities and towns would be grateful to have these new problems discussed in this video.
I live in this area and yes, it was gratifying to see our local story on a national tv network.
Oh yeah, grateful to work for Jeff Bezos. My family were blue collar workers..with lifetime jobs, full fringes, stock options, and, in the case of my dad's firm the good sense to turn down some corporate raider who thought he could turn the best firm in town into a sweatshop. He lost...
What was the pollution when the steel mills where going ?
I _lovelovelove_ the artworks at the end of each video. Does anyone know anything about those? Some are soooooo beautiful.
You can search for it - they did a piece on the suns. One person has the job of picking all of them. Many are submitted by the artist.
@@jeanninemattison7913 cool, thank you.
5:48 A visit to the Crystal Bridges Museum when Sunday Morning returns
And lots of farm land is being paved over!
$50 jobs with benefits and pensions are now $15 jobs with no/little benefits and no pension. Grueling work and job pace. Warehouse athletes??? What kind of dystopia????
We as a nation need to be making and producing our own materials and goods again. Not repackaging someone else's products. God Bless America 🇺🇸
God blessed america then Republicons and democraps took the blessings called bribes from corporate and viola, rust belt. Enjoy being athletic in those cozy warehouse jobs while you pee your pants to make your quota. Slaves.
So a partial solution to diesel truck emissions was in the Pickens Plan, which T. Boone Pickens believed would allow the natural gas used for power generation to be shifted to fuel trucks and other heavy vehicles with Compressed natural gas. R.I.P. Boone.
Nothing like taking advantage of vulnerable people, way to go....
I guess you think they should all be making $50 per hour for shuffling boxes?
@@durant29 Comrade, how's Troll Factory working out? You should have spent more time studying Dunning Kruger and your Q question would have been left in the cobwebs that exist in that feeble void.
For Lamont McClure and others who don't want warehouses, I have a very simple solution for you. STOP buying merchandise on-line and if you do that the demand for more warehouses over the next 10 + years will go away. Go back to the retail store.
The woman measuring spikes in downtown fails to realize, those LTL trucks that went by her in downtown aren't there because of the distribution centers. Those are LTL city drivers who deliver to all those small businesses in downtown. They have always been there.
Bring back the steel production to this town and the others you have stripped clean
Those days are long gone. Corporations can get cheaper steel in China
@@RudieObias just isn't the same. Shame too
Good for the people there nice hardworking people deserve jobs where they can work hard and get paid !
That wasn't "Main St". It was 3rd St. on the southside. But that's where the trucks are. So...
Yep.
That's not Main Street, that's East Third Street. It's not even on the same side of the river as Main Street. Main Street is on the other side of town, in the Historic District. 18 wheelers can't drive that street, since it still has bricks in sections.
There are street signs on enough corners to make that pretty dumb error.
The main used street. Most old towns have a Main Street, & then the main road that gets 5,000x the traffic.
@@sunshine3914 I'm from Bethlehem. The reporter said "This is Main Street". Its factually incorrect. And such an easy thing to get right.
To your points, E. Third Street is not even the main or busiest road in the city. Center St, Schoenersville Rd, Linden St/PA 191, Stefko Blvd, Union Blvd, probably all handle more volume in a day.
And all the warehouses and stuff on the Southside are closer to I-78 than E. Third.
While the research is a good thing to study, there are more trucks moving through town 3 miles to the southeast.
@@radioguy3743 Same with my town. Outsiders call the bypass, that’s two miles away the main st. I’m okay with that because only us town folk are willing to sit at the railroad tracks for 40 minutes 2-4x a day.
do you mean to NOT make that pretty dumb error?
@@eatpigsnot Yes. That is what I meant. I should edit that.
4:36. Why are all those cars going through downtown? They should be forced to creat truck access roads. 😔
I-78 has an exit closer to where warehouses in this part of the Lehigh Valley are located....where Bethlehem and Allentown meet. I do not know why truck drivers do not use that exit exclusively.
The guy said he doesn’t want more jobs in his community lol
Amazon sucks!
And while we're at it let's take Elon musk along with Jeff bezos
There is always a group of people with high paying secure jobs worried that there are too many jobs available for others. And that what they consider to be subjectively valuable (pretty defunct farms) might be replaced. Million dollar pretty farms with a couple horses for their pleasure is more important than the suffering of others. Then they tell you it is all for you, cuz you don’t know better.
The difference is that liberals fought hard to make those manufacturing jobs good-paying UNION jobs. The fact that so many of those steel workers could raise families on a single income was a triumph of liberal politics. The same thing needs to happen today to make sure those warehouse jobs are also good-paying union jobs. And it won't happen if people keep voting for Republicans and DINO's.
I'm glad the pollution is being monitored. Bring on the Tesla Semi..
And I still won't shop on Amazon. I don't like the way they treat their employees and price-bust competitors.
Eventually all of these distro centers will be empty
And the cycle will begin again.
If humans can still inhabit earth.
This just pisses me off watching Jeff bezos get richer. Someone stand up and compete
#vermont
Soon there will be moving from the dry west by the thousands
I’m pleasantly surprised he wanted to preserve the farmland for environmental purposes. Most of the people in that area don’t believe in climate change or science in general.
That’s completely false, but at least you tried.
That's false. Its one of the true 'purple' areas of the country. In Northampton County, 49.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 48.9% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.4% voted Independent.
@@radioguy3743 There is still going to be an large urban/rural divide. The blue parts are the places like Easton, Bethlehem, and suburban Allentown. The agricultural towns are going to be red. This is true all over the country even in some so called urban counties. Look at Oklahoma County. Yes it's purple but the divide is very obvious. Inner city OKC and the inner suburbs are blue. Outer suburbs and the rural areas are red. So while this county may be purple rural voters are still going to be very red.
WAREHOUSES WILL BUST.. . CHANGES ARE A COMIN'...
They will eventually be replaced with more robots.
Why can't they build a road straight from the warehouse to the freeway.
I-78 is closer to where most these trucks go. I think non-local or inexperienced drivers just trust their GPS too much. Have you heard of the 11 foot 8 bridge in Durham, NC? Even with signs, drivers that don't know the area drive into it all the time, when there is a better (and faster) route available: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_Southern-Gregson_Street_Overpass
@@radioguy3743 That would drive me nuts too, if I lived there.
This isn't new, where are all the horse carriage makers? gone. We have cars. This is progress people. This is normal
Thanks pandemic wealth transfer. Whistle away!
Time to fire these plants up again can't defend yourself with a cardboard box
Ruining the Lehigh Valley, one truck at a time.
This is part of The build back better plan .. Trusting in your gov is the plan.lol
the only thing Biden can and did Build Back Better is the Taliban
E-commerce is a net loss to communities, these jobs make others rich while your towns die.