What Does a Gulf/East Coast Port Strike Mean? WGOW Shipping Joins the Armchair Attorney to Discuss
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- What Does a Port Strike on the US East/Gulf Coast Mean for the Supply Chain?
Filmed on September 26, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - appears on the Fleeting Conversations podcast with Matthew Leffler, the Armchair Attorney, to discuss the potential, background, and what a strike by the International Longshoreman's Association against the US Maritime Alliance (USMX) mean for the ports on the US East/Gulf Coasts and the global supply chain.
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Ports Brace for Shutdown as U.S. Dockworker Strike Deadline Nears
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ILA Union
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Norfolk port is officially closed. I just tried to get loaded, they are closed. As of noon today they stopped operations. All the guys there said the others are stopping soon.
Savannah shuts down at midnight
Charleston does too at midnight
Sal, were I POTUS, I would offer you Secretary of Transportation
I would surely have him on a senior advisory council at the very least; he has some very good insights!
Given the volume of trade by the sea, I would make a new Department of Sea Commerce with him at the fore.
I was an over-the-road trucker, when I delivered to Walmart it sucked. They would have me back into the dock on one side ans they would pull pallets off as they needed to load on a truck on the other side of the warehouse. If an outbound truck was late I was forced to sit at the dock waiting for it. Walmart doesn't have warehouse space to unload a truck completely so the trucker could pull around to the outbound side to be reloaded. Remember the trucker can't count that time your sitting at the dock as resting time, it counts as on duty not driving and you only get so many of these hours before you have to shut the truck down!
Truckers get screwed coming and going... it's been like this for decades! No wonder trucker's are retiring and NO ONE ELSE IS TAKING THEIR PLACE!
That was not common for you to do lol or shouldn't have been. I worked for Wal-Mart for 12 years and managed receiving. Truckers drop the trailers and grab the empty that was unloaded the day before. There is absolutely enough space to unloaded a full truck as a full truck is unloaded everyday. Even on two truck days, both trucks will be unloaded and yes there is space. Now at black Friday when they get promotional trailers,one trailer will continue to hold freight usually until the day of the event but Truckers still pick up the empties from the regular merchandise unloads.
@@mylegalassistants If you ask Trump, there is plenty of bodies... you just need to train them, get them on the program to become citizens, etc...
Are you a Teamster?
Walmart Distribution centers: -one of the best to unload at. For Company drivers it is mostly drop and hook.
-However they are picky usually at coming more than 30 minutes early and overnight parking to sleep. (Depends on distribution center).
Walmart Stores: Usually you have an appointment, but storage inside maybe limited = depends on the store. = If you have something heavy (canned food, water etc) they will want that first to stack on the bottom with the lighter stuff on top.
-split your 10hr break into 2/8 etc.
If I make the 100k I'm working weekend and over night. I'm never home.
100k for 80 -100 hour weeks
Me too.
My husband has been in law enforcement for 25+ years and averages 80-90 hours a week...the blue collar workers have been getting screwed over for decades... hours go up yet pay increases are stagnant at about 1-3% a year... which DOESN'T KEEP UP WITH THE INFLATION!
@@jamesfiocca3914hell no I work 40 hours a week for 120 a year
@@jamesfiocca3914 Mostly night shift as well, regular pay day work will not get you 100k. (Longshoreman ILA 24 Houston) Seniority 4
"Educate and not indoctrinate" is spot on. I for one appreciate this mantra. Thanks
Why the hurricanes and this port issue..yes we are going to panic!
Why hurricanes? Did you take physics in HS?
@@johnsmith1474she's expressing concern over the timing of the strike in light of the hurricane aftermath.
Think about the anus. If it shuts down, there's not an immediate effect, but over a period of time, it can shut down the entire body.
Loving that analogy. 🤣🤣
Yes! An impaction has serious long-term affects.
The brain thinks it is the most important organ. It is not. The anus is. It can shut down all of the other organs in a most painful manner. 😆
As someone with chronic constipation my entire life, I agree.
Well unlike the anus we don't actually need 45k dock workers
Sal, you’d be more effective than most- the answer is you’re not a politician! I really love you’re explanations and history and the context is always explained❤️
Ship happens.
LOL....good one.
It won’t happen tomorrow
@@houstonpromotion Yes, the strike is set for 12am Tuesday morning. buckle up
@@TomSmith-sr2br na I can take some time off lol
It's not good when the ship hits the fantail.
As I watch this in at the Port of Miami waiting in line that’s not moving for a refer
This is gonna only take a few days to become a huge problem.
GREAT
Yeah but it'll take a few weeks to become an unmitigated disaster.
And a few years to balance out afterwards and a few decades to recover.
@@RussetPotatodecades ?? Not hardly.
@@RussetPotatoWeeks to months at most. Chicken little, the sky isn't falling.
Already, everyone is refusing refrigerated cargo.
This is the second time I’ve read this. If you don’t mind, could you explain what this means to a layman like myself? I kinda don’t understand this part
@Houseonmeadows Once it's on the dock, it's not refrigerated anymore if it's not immediately unloaded from a ship, put into a refrigerated container, and either shipped by rail or by truck. The port operators don't want rotten, maggot-riddled beef from Argentina sitting on the docks. Ditto frozen seafood from China, Chile, Norway.
@@CricketsBay thank you for explaining this to me
@CricketsBay "Once it's on the dock, it's not refrigerated anymore" Well that's kind of gross. If the boxes are powered on the ship and powered on the trucks and powered on the trains it would make sense to have a powered stack of them at the port too.
I heard last week they were already rerouting cargo to the west coast.
Great rundown of this issue always entertaining and informative.
Trying to turn breakbulk ports into modern container-handling ports is like trying to turn US Steel's old Homestead Steel Mill into NUCOR Steel in the eighties.
Just try to open a non-union Port it's crazy. They have shut down a new port here in Charleston because of its non-union. Crazy!!!
@@ryanwalters6184 they didn't shut down a new port in Charleston, it never opened because the SPA didn't want to honor the agreement of staffing ILA crane operators. The ILA threatened to sue for each ship that docked and didn't use union workers for loading/unloading of containers. ILA memebers were supposed to operate these cranes at any new ports/berths built and the SPA (state port authority) tried to scheme and to not honor this agreement.
This was just settled recently and ILA members are now staffing these cranes at the new Leatherman terminal. Unions keep everyone's wages higher even non-union members. Wages must increase if the American dream is going to continue, the 1% are straggling the middle class
@Youcanthavemyname24
This is why we have inflation.
@@Youcanthavemyname24 and those wage increases increase prices which doesn't help non members who outnumber the members by 10,000 :1
@@mikekahl4745 that's wild, pass this knowledge along to all economist's ASAP, who would have thought all we need to do is automate cranes at ports worldwide and inflation will magically disappear!?!?
There will be a settlement. Union workers will get higher pay, and automation will be delayed or blocked entirely. The ports and shipping companies will pass on the cost, and consumers will pay more for the same products.
"When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
Less respect is given all around.
The house always wins. Companies get their way from the consumer. Cost is always passed onto the consumer.
Automating jobs is only hurting us in the long run. The automation should go to tools that make the human workers jobs easier not to delete them entirely. WalMart has mostly automated unloaded process but no workers lost their jobs due to it.
and the CEO will get a 20% boost in pay
@@cwhipp9805Let’s pay workers $141K a year to watch robots work😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Everything is a constant short sale
Currently the ILA workers are probably the highest paid blue collar workers in the country. They will strike because they have nothing to lose. They probably want time off anyway. They will get a huge pay increase. But longer term the ports will automate because of the high pay. The APM terminal in Rotterdam is the most advanced in the world. It’s a container terminal and there are no workers out on the docks. Even the crane operators are remote.
This automation will come to the US.
Don't fool yourself, automation has nothing to do with worker pay. Do you think the cotton gin was invented because slaves were payed too much?
@@DonaldTrump2024-j9o cost not pay but yes. he's right. the higher the laborers charge for labor, the lower the bar to replace them with automation. if they charge $50k a year, you'd have to design a system to replace them, maintenance included, for less than 50k a year. Not likely. If they're making 100 or 200k a year, then replacing them starts to become financially feasible, and increasingly moreso as the wages are higher. Yes, wages do matter when it comes to outsourcing/automation
Errr no my friend the longshoreman don’t want time off because they understand what it means if they strike.
@@DonaldTrump2024-j9o Do you think only slaves worked the cotton?
I am no economist here, but I can tell you that the areas these guys must live in to work at the docks, mainly New York/New Jersey are insanely expensive to live in. Someone on another site thought $100,000 a year was a lot. If you have never lived in these areas, you will not understand the exorbitant cost of travel (tolls on a lot of highways and the bridge tolls are insane) and the cost of housing. Even if your house is paid off, you’re still gonna be paying $12,000 a year in property taxes. The younger guys have no chance of ever owning a home in these areas. Maybe a two bedroom condo. Who would want to do backbreaking work in heat, cold, and all the required overtime. I don’t blame them. Why should management rake in billions while scrimping on pay for the guys that make it all go?
the more profits that go into the pockets of workers instead of owners the better for everyone, it's pretty obvious.
I would think that automation will ultimately win out - it's much more efficient. Unfortunately, port workers will be replaced by robotics, just like the ones used today in China.
Exactly 💯 I'm a merchant mariner and the union port workers are going to be in for a big surprise they are not getting a 77% percent pay increase.
Here’s the big news: everybody from truck drivers, to nurses, to police and fire/rescue, manufacturers, etc. are being paid wages that don’t even come close to measuring up to inflation. The health insurance system is broken, even for these workers. Most of these pension plans are unplayable- because the funds have been mismanaged and leveraged in the markets, or because the employee pool is too high. Everybody is suffering. Everybody. This is a move that will ABSOLUTELY eventually get you what you want as an ILA member. But it will come at the cost of every person in the United States- and by some folks from other parts of the world. You’ll get your pay raise, but then everybody pays more for those goods- the companies at the top ain’t gonna pay out of their pockets. The consumer looses, and you shit on every American. What about the truck drivers waiting for those containers? And when Automation finally comes around- and AI is going to be the next “turning” and tech boom, they will be super quick to replace you after all of this. Everybody loses.
The only thing about this that makes me “giddy” is watching the current Presidential Administration squirm right before an Election. They either take action using EXISTING federal law, or they watch the economy tank even further under their watch. It’s the only thing I love to see.
Exactly. After this strike, (which as I type is on) the ILA will be as popular as a turd in a swimming pool with the average American.
One thing people don’t understand about the union and automation is that they have retirements to pay out. If the workforce shrinks there is not enough money comping into to pay the pensioners. Part of the deal needs to be a wind down agreement where the companies increase retirement contributions to offset the jobs lost to automation.
If the workforce shrinks, they will need to raise pay and integrate into the education system.
They want the ports to be dependent on the most number of human laborers to do 2 things
1) Fortify their position, to make a strike more dangerous
2) To have more high paying jobs for people generally, as, they are a semi-militant labor movement
You need to think about this from the view point of the workers, and what is best for us, not from the viewpoint of the business owner. We shouldn't care what our actions due to damage the exploiters, as humans are the source of all value, re: Marx.
I'd add that some of the profits resulting from port automation should go to fund retirements. Don't expect a shrinking pool of active workers to cover the cost of those retired. Take that money from machines that don't care and will never retire.
@@Inkling777 this exactly, automation fees are the answer
Then why doesn't the union just say that and not demonize automation in general? They play on fear, want to resist change and stay uncompetitive.
Would the automation fees dwindle and then sunset at X number of years in the future? Thinking once enough of the current pool of retirees begin to dwindle, and fewer active employees (due to automation) feeding into the retirement pool, the disparity between the two balances itself out. If that makes sense. Shouldn't be a fee that never ends, as the disparity it was created to address, eventually goes away.
If this strike is successful for the ILA it will trickle down through the entire maritime sector. As a merchant mariner myself I have heard scuttlebutt that we are next to negotiate a pay increase, which is basically a COLA increase to make up for lost wages over the years. The major players in shipping has been raking in cash non stop for the last 5 years and the workforce upon which that cash was made had not seen much if any of that progit come their way. We are long overdue for a strong labor movement in the US and this may just be the spark that kicks everything off when people see how stong a united workforce can be
Hell yeah brother. Unions are our only way to escape capitalist slavery these days and the only form of democracy that matters. The political machine is corrupt and a total fascist failure, only collective bargaining is worth caring about. Solidarity Forever.
Your replacements are coming. Goodbye.
It’s a group that is negotiating with the ILA that seem to have big 8 shippers that have made billions and the ILA are in the best position to get something right now
Maybe us truckers will unite too
@@milkshake1993 it would be better for truckers if people realized who brings them their essential commodities
Christmas is coming and Christmas 'stuff' is on the boats now. It is Oct 1. (Almost) and soon the displays will be going up. I think the ILA knows this and will create a great issue. With the economy way down going for Socialism we will have less money for everything. ILA might be killing the jobs at the wrong time.
Socialism? How's that?
Christmas celecbrated by giving (c)ommunist China money is a dispensable ritual.
The vegetable in chief can’t find the bathroom… let alone be proactive with this contract negotiation.
The vegetable in chief...😆😆😆
Potatus.
I was inside the Newport News Marine Terminal on Saturday picking up a load and the workers sounded very serious about going on strike. This is real and those guys are absolutely gung-ho about going on strike.
The rental yard I worked at told me I was an essential employee and I had to work thru Covid.. I would walk onto job sites and find out they were just reopening after a Covid shut down…. Never got hazard pay…
If the ports are owned by the cities and states, why is union striking the shippers and not the cities and states?
The 14 ports where the ILA will strike are all owned by foreign corporations. The USMX is made up solely of shipping company owners and foreign companies which own the ports. Sal addressed this briefly in a previous video.
The container port in Mobile is owned by the State of Alabama. The State has a contract with APM to run the Terminal. All improvements to the port is funded by taxpayers of Alabama.
Because the shipping lines are the ones who pay us
The union has no contract with .gov entity is the answer here
Yes, us truckers are tired of slow loading and unloading!!!
We might run out of bananas as the world is going Bananas.
And we are living in a banana republic 😅
The question you didn't answer is how big is the ILA war chest? Can they afford to go on strike because it will take a week strike just to get started noticing things. And then they get extra money when they work extra hours to get it all sorted out. They're not just sitting home because the freight builds up. And if they're hourly they just get more hours when they go back to work. Thanks to a little strike it'll be mandatory overtime for everyone!
First day major problems . Every day will be week of backlogged work.
Who cares, join the club. Everyone is at mandatory overtime now because 75% of the workforce is lazy, untrained idiots.
Keep up the great content, Sal. High Point, NC checking in.
5:19 As an ER Nurse so did we. Do you think you guys are busy on the docks? You have no idea what busy is. But I don’t get to hold a knife to the community and say I want money because the hospital made money and go on strike. I wish we could just walk out of the ER but we can’t do that and I don’t think these longshoremen are doing themselves any favors
union nurses can walk out. We struck for 28 days in 2010 to protect our patients precisely because that was the only way to force the hospital give us what we needed to do our jobs right.
Thank you for a really good breakdown of the system. No pun intended. I think of the big trickle down and how it will affect truckers, rail workers and warehouse workers. Sadly the current administration has weak leadership and highlights how people were put in positions they weren’t qualified for. The American people and the world will suffer from it.
Have you ever been in an Amazon distribution center? They have a giant overhead conveyor belt that boxes go on in the case of a port it would be shipping container boxes. They go on the conveyor belt the conveyor belt then uses the computer to read the box and put it out for the right correct truck shipment. Where it gets packed into a cargo box and shipped. If we could rapidly use something computerized to pull the cargo containers off the ship and put them onto a conveyor belt that's right there. That's automation! Zero touch is what a trucker loves.
Longshoremen have to live in some of the highest cost of living areas, to be close to work. I don't know how they survive here in Florida. Housing near the ports is more than $2,000,000 for an AVERAGE home.
Exactly 😂❤🎉
in Airline Labor Negotiations, The companies come to the table with a bucket of money
and don't seem to care how it is spent... But they tend not to exceed what they bring to the table...
This could last until the union is determined unworkable, and they start hiring outside the unions...potentially.
A port in Mexico with rail getting in and out would be a huge problem ask CPKC about that. Even then the rails in the US are getting backed up now with trying to run commuter trains on freight routes.
Our train system is in poor shape.
Question is do you ever get sleep Sal ? The amount of work you do and it’s valuable- thank you!
How will this strike affect petroleum type exports?
I believe that it uses a different type of port.
I heard yes but I don't know for sure
Worse than most would think
A Fox News video this morning unintentionally shows closeups of how inefficient US ports are. It shows a guy standing under the crane, holding his hand out to mark where the yard tractor driver should spot the corner connector of the container so the crane can pick it. He wiggles his head for "more...more...", then drops his arm to say "hold". Meanwhile, several other people wandering around below the cranes, dangerous situation. I can think of a dozen ways this could be improved, from a mirror on a post to a laser to a wire guided automatic yard tractor.
The same thing happens at warehouses and airports 😂
Terrible thinking.
As a merchant mariner I see it all the time at some of these ports smh
@@keeppressing1760 it's not just ports. Warehouses, airports are the same
@@Assembled-Saints exactly 💯 the world is changing
One way to push for automation is to strike
And to reduce the union workforce.
We'll see....
Fact check: FALSE
Yep. Union Boss blusters in the Kabuki theater to make their base feel like paying those dues is finally worth something.
Starting at 100% confrontational is the predictably knee-jerk move. Go right for the jugular, shut down the country's logistics, hold a gun to the White House's head right before an election. Reminds me of Putin over-playing the nuclear card hand right out of the gate.
No doubt Trump/GOP will exploit the situation for votes, knowing the drunk fools will jump in bed without a condom, only to cry later when Doc tells them they got Herpes. No worries though, you got your raise. Well done.
Companies will acquiesce enough to get the troops back to work, then quietly plan actions to mitigate the risk of being held at gunpoint from within, while lowering their costs in the long run.
Almost as ironic as slowly training lazy Americans to pump their own gas and bag their own groceries. LOL.
They're so greedy they don't want to pay the upfront cost to automate.
Thanks Sal.
Dang it ATLAS SHRUGGED in real life...WHERES JOHN GAULT????
It would help if our president was rebuilding our institutions instead of wasting it on climate change bs!
If you properly refer to “the administration formerly known as the Biden Administration” you speak correctly and answer your question at the same time.
Great conversation and dialogue Sal!!!
What about the employees paying taxes how do you up keep the state and the city and the federal government so machines don't pay taxes
Thanks Captain Sal for the great work 👍 I am amazed at how your channel has grown over the past few years. Rightly so. In my opinion, you are a national treasure 😊
U.S. port efficiency is dismal and I hope the companies can get them much better in the negotiations. Unions deserve good pay and time off. But they also need to improve our ranks.
Drive I45 in and out of Houston they need a special HOV lane to move those trucks in and out the main traffic are trucks. It’s dangerous
Something missing from the "automation" discussion is the economics reality that it takes capital. The cheaper the capital the more automation you get. Taking the argument to the ridiculous then the solution would be fifty percent interest That ain't gonna happen.
BUY AMERICAN!!! I have tried for many years is patronize the local and AMERICAN and don't patronize imports!! The real problem is that USA has become dependent on imports and let the workers fail. We need to patronize the local vendors FIRST!!!
I fully agree with you but unfortunately most medication is not all American made. I truly believe in this but when you have medical conditions it’s hard to do 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Exactly 💯 that's why Trump was trying to bring those jobs back to the US
Not much is made in the USA these days
@@graywolf2694
Thanks to the unions and the democrat environmenalist.
@@MarjanKaykavoosithey just reported that medications really don't come through that method they get flown in
Sal, A question for you:
Will a strike affect the oil and fuel production supply in the USA?
Also If you did not know cobalt & hydrogen and about 20 other chemicals are used in petroleum refineries to make fuel.
Petroleum refineries are the biggest or one of the biggest users of cobalt & hydrogen in the world - without these, you are not making fuel.
Yes it will, we (overall) don't refine our own oil because our refineries are setup to run another type.
I am not saying the doc workers shouldn’t get paid better. We all should. But it seems this strike could start a chain reaction that throws the US into a 2nd great depression followed by most of the rest of the world… followed by chaos and more wars
The timing of this is horrible to say the least.
Yes but that was already happening...
Exactly. This asshole president of the union doesn't care
Sounds like justice for a corrupt nation.
ya know what I'm gonna start a micro-shipping company. one that utilizes smaller drone ships controlled by AI, that will convey goods anywhere, not just to a large wasteful port. then i'm gonna give all those longshoremen jobs to work the local docks. smaller payloads, more efficient, more point-to-point delivery, and offers a better quality of life for these hard working people. STOP LIVING IN THE 20th CENTURY!!!
70% pay increase in 6 years!!! Are you kidding me.
If that’s the case. Who needs college right?
And us Social Security recipients are getting a whopping 2.6 increase next year.
You always start high when negotiating. They know they won't get that.
@chessiekid4018 These days not many...
They start this high to at least get 20%-30% increase
Sounds like shippers have made record profit, same as many other industries with market share controlled by less than a dozen players, all claiming during COVID that they needed to raise prices due to disruptions caused by COVID. Time to break up these monopolys or whatever you want to call them, get prices to come down through competition as Fed governors have said many times in interviews needs to happen, and bring back the middle class!! But the important thing I need to kno, is how many rolls of toilet paper should I "bum rush" my local supermarket for today?
Grab a bidet from Lowe's while you're at it lmao
@@Snyder1224 good idea lol
How could you break up international, non American, shipping companies?
Idiot
=== >>> Revenue DOES NOT equal Profits !
These union thugs keep spouting record Profits which is not true.
@@danam0228 DIRTY $%
Thanks for the video Sal. If the ILA goes on strike it is going to wreck the supply chain. The union definitely deserves the raises. The collective bargaining should have been hammered out a months ago. Eventually the consumer is going to pay these increases. I wish the ILA the best and hope a compromise can be made and new contract can be negotiated.
Spot on. Totally agree
I hope so too, A strike right now will be catastrophic.🙏🙏🙏
Brilliant perspectives. We are toast. Panic destroys all human progress. Leaderless empire at the cliff. Was this by evil design?
Cmon lol, they've been playing a game for 60 years. It's just starting to get to endgame.
As a law enforcement/safety officer I worked through Covid, I worked through riots, floods, hurricanes, tornados, with my life in the balance
Trying to rescue citizens. Plus, unable to negotiate a pay contract by law, forced to have an arbitrator decide the final settlement. Why are other professions such as longshore men that has the ability by striking, cause catastrophic damage and even death to American citizens, mandate arbitrators in this.
Just gonna point out that farmers are so 'essential' that it's illegal for them to strike or even unionize. Probably why they still work 16 hour days 6 days a week during busy seasons. Too bad their income is steadily declining.
@@JHe-f9tyealds are so low this year, I took out a mortgage to be safe
Because they are smarter than cops. End of story.
Listen to Malcom Gladwell's talk about how the dock worker strike enabled made a huge contribution to Malcolm McClain introduction of containers.
I disagree with several points here. Even though toilet paper is made in the US the paper comes in via railway. Trucks won’t drive empty loads. 70% of jobs will be lost to AI within the next 2 years. Seems inevitable! Gas will be the first to go! Grocery stores empty in 3 days…
"A Longshoreman in a crane is sometimes more efficient than an automated crane". Brilliant. The swing to flesh based intuition, from silicon algorithms may have something to it.
Following up on my previous post, it's very possible that the crane operators will stay, for the reasons you stated. Silicon can handle the routine picks, but sometimes you need a person to step in. The problem is moving boxes around and spotting them on the dock.
Good interview, the guy conducting the interview, he actually let you present the facts, this strike is going to hurt !, the strike got a mention on the BBC business news this morning (1st Oct ) I would think you will be in demand in the next few days.
The automated crane doesn't take breaks. I work the savannah port and the turn time is unacceptable. They make us road drivers wait for hours while they load and unload ships so they get bonuses
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No idea what to expect because so much dependant upon state of US economy which going by interest rates, oil prices and a suddenly panicking US Federal Reserve is a really bad economy meaning almost no impact as anyone that involves themselves in this will lose their jobs and be replaced. Just look at Stellantis and that all that need be said about strikes which again is a *VERY EXTREME FORM OF LABOR ACTION* namely "i refuse to do work and aim to destroy the business as well." Seeing as West Coast Ports remain open seems oddly selective as well but yes the labor exists upon in this Region no problem to keep these massive Facilities open and working should some type of deal need be worked out. Might not be looking for a deal tho instead just trying to destroy everything don't know even after the interview. The USA isn't Great Britain. We don't need foreign trade in goods for our economy to thrive not that we *DON'T* want that we in fact *DO* want this as obviously they pay a lot in energy bills so my first thought is a collapse in energy prices will be the result find out tomorrow Tuesday😊
I have been stocking up for months. Things are very unstable with this administration. Best to try to keep a full tank of gas, lots of water and canned goods.
Plenty of billionaires yachts have been seized. 🤣
For a time such as this. In the old days horse and wagon worked. Didnt need electric and they built this country. We will make it. But now is the opportunity to stop doing the sameo sameo and make the necessary changes. The 3 letters got to go. All of them.
Ummm...is the Armchair Attorney, Dr. Mikes brother??? Or cousin?? haha wayyyy to similar! But anyways...great conversation about this massive situation everyone will feel.
Philadelphia's number one in production in this country and number 51 in the world
This has been one of the best interviews I’ve heard! Great host and concise, informative, and enthusiastic guest! So informative’
Sal, YOU could easily 'sail' through a John Kennedy Q & A!!! :-)
B4 long import items that was $1 will be $10. Everyone wants to be a millionaire.
Thanks for the update. However I cannot see how more federal bureaucracy will help anything
i am glad that i don't get all of the government that i am paying for.
This is explicitly one of the times where the federal government is extraordinarily useful. What the union is suggesting is a massive threat to National security and the overall GDP of the country. If there was one time you're going to use those federal powers, this is it.
The feds are fueling the problems.
Screw automation.
Let’s go back to stevedores and loading things by hand!!!
There will be panic. This is why we did our weekly shop today so tomorrow we can sit back and snicker at the people with carts full of TP and Doritos tomorrow.
i am super super curious of what happens to a longshoreman in Texas who exercises his or her right to work under our right to work laws here in Texas, during all this. Seems like a union member who wants to exercise their individual right to work could put the union in some sort of bind. because the union cannot legally tell him or her they are not allowed to work
This video miss out one important piece of information. We are not alone on this. If ila fall you think other port around the world will just sit idle. Ilwu you think they let ila fall?
What can ports government do withour crossing Union line during the strike? Clean bathrooms, add technology, test use of robots and prepare port infrastructure for rising sea level?
Maybe you can speak/overview Mexicos plans , efforts and the effects of their new shipping canal system.
we have been told 2 days strike adds 1 week to shipping time from china.
Good long form in depth look into an important issue none of us even knew existed. (US= Non Subcribers 😊)
A wonderful interview that gave me a good understanding of the issues, problems and possible solutions.
Thanks
I vote Sal for Sec of Transportation in next administration (whatever that is), yay! He sees the total picture and is smart as can be!
Not just about the money it’s about protecting people jobs. A lot of these companies make double digit billions a year get millions in bonuses
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
Need to shut it down. We don’t care if you get your goods . We want $ now. No more cheap cartage
Oh we are going on strike at 1 minute past midnight
You striking? How much do you make?
@jonathantaylor6926: Probably more than you and I together. (With a better healthcare plan too)
@@Evom777 how often do you risk your life at work? For us it’s every ship that’s why we have the healthcare plan we do and to answer the question around 85k. Longshoreman are middle class blue collar workers
Good chemistry, this lawyer was on my radar and I'll give him a watch
Well.its 1:02 and no deal in site..buckle up boys and girls.
Incorporation especially multi corpse don't pay taxes
This is a matter of national security so bring in the national guard
It is not 1893. Why only bring up the two years profit and not the 5 years of loss? Why so one sided? There’s always two sides of a story.
Glad someone else sees it
im just here to find out if I need to be stocking up on food and goods ? anyone?
I would, yes.
no, conditionally. what exactly is going to be cut off by a strike? does the wheat for your bread come on a ship? no. how about milk? no, absolutely not unless you live on Block Island. olive oil? plenty comes from California...veggies.. same. so exactly why would you? irrational panic? OH.. yes, that's why. if you feel like panicking go right ahead. bananas well...yes, go out in the morning and buy the biggest greenest bunches you can find if you just can't live without them.
If you're by the coast, I would say yes. If your way further inland, I would say yes. I'm of the mind that having a good store of noodles, canned goods, paper products, hygiene products and water are always a good thing to have. No matter what's happening. You don't need massive amounts of anything. Just keep the stock rotating.
Look at what you're consuming on the regular that's imported and start there. Maybe try to anticipate anything that you might have been planning on purchasing and see if that's imported too? Like what was already mentioned, it's good to have some extras of the essentials regardless. 😉💪
That’s so much money…. Can we just have computers take over their jobs to save a few bucks?
That's cute you believe any cost savings will be brought down to consumers instead of taken as more profits and given as bonuses. Ahh to be young...
@@RichyNodz Oh, I’m not saying we the consumers would save a few bucks, but as a company.
From a business standpoint the smart decision (to save money and boost efficiency) is to get ride of the pesky workers and go digital. I am young but also retired at 40 😁
Thank you sal.. Ila all the way !! Watch what happens
Thank you sal yes the yard to truck is the bottleneck
Can you imagine poof Pete getting in the mix.
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