I don't think rejecting automation is the way forward here for anyone.
There's still jobs with automation, it's not zero sum.
And the new jobs that are created are more fun too.
The really bad jobs would go away though. That much is true.
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“We will never allow automation to come into our union and try to put us out of work as long as I’m alive.” [1]
Ok, so that's not very productive.
> Under the current contract, which expired on Monday, longshoremen earn up to $39 an hour, but the ILA is pushing for that to rise to $69 an hour over the next six years.
Ok, that might actually be reasonable; but only with automation.
I don't think rejecting automation is the way forward here for anyone.
There's still jobs with automation, it's not zero sum.
And the new jobs that are created are more fun too.
The really bad jobs would go away though. That much is true.
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“We will never allow automation to come into our union and try to put us out of work as long as I’m alive.” [1]
Ok, so that's not very productive.
> Under the current contract, which expired on Monday, longshoremen earn up to $39 an hour, but the ILA is pushing for that to rise to $69 an hour over the next six years.
Ok, that might actually be reasonable; but only with automation.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20241001110350/https://www.teleg...
> what it portrays is bragging, bragging about the reality that China has automated ports and America mostly does not
But the video doesn’t mention the United States at all. Why assume that a China boasts implies a US knock?
It does. It specifically says the throughput of the port in the video is more than the combined throughput of all ports in the United States.