Last week CTH noted, “interested political followers in the USA should pay close attention to how the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWA) respond to the corporate media narrative. … Will the International Longshoremen’s Association stand with Trump, or will they drop support as the global trade reset emphasizes domestically manufactured jobs? That will be an interesting aspect to watch because the dockworker union leadership will face massive pressure to comply with the anti-tariff narrative.” (full article)
Yesterday, we got the answer: “The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) unequivocally condemns the recent tariffs that the Trump administration has imposed.”
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All these moves are so transparently political, it almost makes you laugh. However, that said, we are now in a better position to understand exactly how the Democrats and Deep State operatives will weaponize the supply chain along with their union orcs.
In the next phase of the anti-Trump tariff agenda, approximately 3 months from now it will begin, we will see/hear a constant drumbeat of empty shelves, missing parts and missing products. Whether factually true, or whether the shortages are an outcome of a strategy by the ILWA to assist the shortage narrative, the overall objective will be to blame President Trump for everything from shortages of medicine to shortages of parts to fix, repair or maintain consumer products.
The process looming on the horizon is as predictable as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg moving the stalled container cargo ships beyond the horizon so that no one was able to take pictures of the mess they created in the ports. Factually, the last thing the global shipping conglomerates want is for nations to be self-sufficient.
Global supply chains are dependent on extreme ‘globalism’ and, well, ultimately, there are trillions at stake. Imagine the collapsed business models if nations were self-sufficient. Heck, even a small drop in U.S. import purchases has the ripple effect of the shipping companies losing billions in revenue.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy would be well advised to assemble a proactive ‘supply chain’ group right now to game out an offset strategy to what we can predictably see coming.
Fear of losing jobs, but automation will take those jobs in the end anyway. I found this discussion very interesting, but I am still left thinking of the Elon Musk discussion when he was asked “what will people do for a job” and he sat there for about a minute in silence, and couldn’t answer the question.
fix robots?😳
With any luck, they will build the robots that will fix the robots.
Learn to code.
No need, AI will do that.
Move to Canada??
Aye! Chisel curling stones!
side step vancouver
Take BC back from the CCP and the dope fiends! There are unbelievable rain forests there insane mountains to snowboard and every kind of fresh seafood imaginable.
If the public catches on to the truth, the Longshoremen may be relegated to the SHORTshoremen.
Maybe they can learn to “code” if all does not go well for them.
MAGA
Learn to Coal!
Learn to work in US factories making products in the US for US citizens and the excess can be exported if there is a market for it.
^^^ This is the correct answer.
Absolutely, but now you need to convince the woke youngsters who think they are oh so clever to go and work in them!
Bring in the machines!
Longshoreman risk having their pay docked 🙂
must keep them at bay as they can sea what’s in store
Well, I gotta put my five cents in…
What do you call a dummy on the bridge….”Captain”….
that’s asking for an unscheduled swim on my vessel, Aggie!
How’s that song by Otis Reading go —
“I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Wastin’ time.”
Right. This is so clearly an obvious place where automation could completely take over.
Perfect place for industrial robotics and AI.
Careful what games you play longshoreman!
It was only a few short months ago? Did our POTUS promise to not automate the ports so the Longshoremen’s Union would not lose jobs?
You are correct.
They have short, hypocritical memories.
But will Barnaby Jones still have shootouts in warehouses by the docks?
well, yes! They were worried about the machines in the first phase of this debacle.
If they want to play hardball with President Trump and US citizens, yes, bring the machines!
I am all for it.
All I know is that these guys make really great pay…but the jobs are also very dangerous…their jobs have also become increasingly automated so maybe coding is the way to go…
That’s the Long and Short of it…
The traditional answer, is”Same thing that happened to the furriers, as we transitioned from horses, to horseless carriages; people adapt.
Not nearly enough stopping to ask “Are we better off?” as expressed by Mathew McConoughty charachter, in the movie “Contact”.
When I was a kid, I was my Dads “remote control” to “change the channel” on the TV. Today, televisions, stereos, fans, heaters, a/c’s, etc are all operated by remote control, so we don’t have to get up and walk 5′.
Does this have anything to do with why we are so obese?
Barry McGuire was right,..we ARE on the eve of destruction…
This is the ultimate question. Just because we can do something, should we do it? What is the point of technology? In the past it was always to relieve humans of drudgery, in other words, to assist humans in making menial tasks more tolerable.
But now we have moved so far and so fast; and have become so accustomed to the idea that technological progress can only be a good thing, that we don’t even think about slowing down even as technology threatens to ruin us.
This question can only be avoided for so long. Eventually we will have to decide who predominates: the machines or us.
I can apprec. your refs
No, they can stay in the same job exporting goods.
The Globalists are fighting for there lives. They dont want there 50yr hold on money to stop. They dont want to lose there fat money they made off of us. WE MUST AND WILL DEFEAT THEM ! MAGA
“The Globalists are fighting for their lives.”
Indeed
Fighting for their unlimited, unaccountable 💰.
Their, you fixed it 👍
And its quote probable, IMHO that the longterm fate of the Globullusts is the same as that of the Longshoremen; they will fade away, as anachronisms.
Yes, fighting for their lives.
America needs to return to having our own shipping industry…it is fading fast.
Their? Don’t? Killing me smalls.
“Chinese crap is crap”! I just made that up, for what it’s worth.
I loved the bit about not being able to get repair parts for designed to break and be tossed Chinese crap products.
Parts that have 80% failure rate?
China is the new Russia.
Few years back hubby brought home two cheap electric woks from Walmart. Said they’d probably both crap out in a year. To their credit, first one lasted 7 months. Second one lasted nearly a year.
I still use Mom’s old GE electric skillet her and dad got as a wedding gift in 1958. 😏
I still have my Mom’s harvest gold one. I also have her brown slow cooker that’s about 50 years old. Works fine.
The new slow cookers don’t slow cook. The lowest temperature setting is too high because the Chinese decided no one is allowed to cook anything at a temperature below 175 degrees F. Even my gas oven cannot be set over 100 (warm) or below 175 if I want to slow cook a tough cut of meat all day at 160.
Factory set water levels in washing machines mean washing machines can’t clean the clothes either.
We bought a Kenmore washer/dryer in the 1980s. One of the features was the washer had a steam feature to copec the fibers” of the clothes for deeper cleaning…blah blah. After my husband hooked it up, you had to run a test cycle. I did. Then I washed towels….on hot. Out of curiosity, I stuck my hand into the water being ejected before the rinse cycle. Shocked, I called husband to the washer to see if he had the hoses hooked up tight. The water was about the temperature of a glass of water at roo. Temp.
The customer service ran diagnostics electronically by phone. Declared everything was perfect. I questioned her about the temperature. I was told that for safety protection, the default was 96 degrees. I had a fit! I mentioned the steam feature and asked her if she knew the temperature for steam…5th grade science. I told her. Then I told her if she was that worried, she better stop shaking hands with people because body temperature is higher than ther default and she sure didn’t want to get burned!
I’m old school and want hot water for baby clothes, sick room laundry, whites, or just because I want it!
So there!
It’s enough to render one boiling mad!
I had a new shower installed. This was at the end of covid and the city inspector
did his inspecting by zoom. I was in my office close by working when I heard
the inspector tell the workers to turn down the temperature; it was too high!
I went ballistic! One of the hispanic workers came in the hallway and said,
“missy, missy – don’t worry we will turn it back after the inspection clears”.
and they did!
Exactly, I have a new electric skillet that rapidly starts boiling on a low to setting. I really have to watch it.
Yes, the indestructibles!
What American manufactured used to be.
Designed obsolescence has been in escalation for over 50 yrs…
And in direct correlation to inflation…
Just another coincidence…
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
My now adult children have asked if I can find for them a non-Teflon electric griddle like the made-in-America, solid griddle we received as a gift 30 years ago. They grew up with pancakes from the griddle every Sunday and I never had to worry about poisoning them with PTFE-flakes.
Well, no such luck. Great products like that are not made anymore, and the American company that made it has been reduced to a phony trademark licensing front to market low quality, Chinese landfill material.
I applaud Donald TRUMP and recognize him as the greatest American President since Lincoln.
I look for stainless steel electric fry pans at estate sales — Farberware, etc. My non-electric 54-year-old Farberware pots and pans are still beautiful and functional.
Yep … Thrift stores can be a great place to find older small appliances for cheap. Founds a hardly-used Krups coffee grinder for $3 that I use for grinding spices!
Speaking of crap stock up on toilet paper. Why is that always the first to be unavailable?
Dried pulses in larder is always a good idea.Buy a grind stone and be able to mill your own flour.
had to look up “pulses”… now have to look up (again) “methods for remembering what you looked up”!
Humiliation ritual.
Soviet inspired.
Because people are morons who panic buy more than they need.
Because Americans are yet to embrace the cleanliness of a bidet.
i love it. you seriously made me laugh.
i’m still laughing as a matter of fact ♥️
MAGA! Thank God for our brave warrior, DJT! Divine intervention by God. Please keep him and all Patriots safe dear Lord.
Oh Lord, hear our prayer.
Saw a documentary not long ago about a foreign port that is almost 100% automated…. Don’t see why it couldn’t be done here. So few workers, the only influence a union might wield would be determining pitchers or bottles on bowling night.
😂 🎳🍻
I would not rule out a port strike, for political sake and narrative engineering.
My great grandfather was A Pinkerton strike buster..
President Trump can order them to back to work if they strike, and they know it. Reagan did it to the Air traffic controllers as a Nat Sec issue. Those who did not return post haste, were fired and replaced.
“There are Trillions at stake.” -Sundance
Over the years an entire industry has been built on unloading containers from China. They ain’t gonna go away quietly.
Automate it.
That was the cause for their last strike.
It was and President Trump sided with them, now one of the longshoreman unions is turning their back on that handshake deal, sort of a betrayal and so all previous deals no longer have standing.
Thanks to the longshoremen and their government partners, the US has the worst and most outdated docks in the civilized world.
Be a shame if they protested themselves out of a profession.
The time to upgrade and modernize those outdated docks may be rapidly approaching.
A great video is included:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/13/president-trump-supports-dockworker-position-against-automation/#more-267272
Not one person on the docks and containers stacked up perfectively. Lots of young people know how to use those joysticks.
The wealth created using China, and other countries, and none of it put into our infrastructure. Look at the airports, and railways in the countries who have been supplying the USA, ours look third world.
but……the politicians mostly all became very wealthy!
True.
Yawn. Soon, everyone will have renegotiated, and things will return to normal.
Any union with an SF corporate address is bad news and will only work against any effort to MAGA the USA.
I lived in SF for 30 years, it’s worse than it’s reputation. Happily I’m in PBC, FL now..
Teamsters up next…
UPS to Cut 20,000 jobs
United Parcel Service’s
first-quarter profit beat market estimates and the parcel delivery giant said it will cut 20,000 jobs to lower costs in an uncertain economy and in anticipation of weak volumes from its largest customer, Amazon.
Shares of the company rose nearly 2% before the bell on Tuesday after it said it expects to save $3.5 billion in 2025 from job cuts and by shutting 73 leased and owned buildings by the end of June.
Extensive tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump have slowed down trade and led companies to reduce costs in anticipation of a demand hit. For parcel delivery firms, the slowdown is likely to reduce the need for shipping services between companies.
“The actions we are taking to reconfigure our network and reduce cost across our business could not be timelier,” CEO Carol Tome said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/united-parcel-service-ups-q1-earnings.html
In the long term, President Trumps plan is intended to eliminate other countries trade barriers, to U.S. produced products.
That means more exports, which just means instead of unloading freight these dockworkers will be loading it, instead,…right?
“In the next phase of the anti-Trump tariff agenda, approximately 3 months from now it will begin, we will see/hear a constant drumbeat of empty shelves, missing parts and missing products. Whether factually true, or whether the shortages are an outcome of a strategy by the ILWA to assist the shortage narrative, the overall objective will be to blame President Trump for everything from shortages of medicine to shortages of parts to fix, repair or maintain consumer products.”
And it may be unfortunate to note, but under this scenario (“shortages of medicine to shortages of parts to fix, repair or maintain consumer products”), the democrats and MSM will finally have the gift of an attack Trump plan with some fang teeth.
I’m glad I got off medicine.
There was plenty of medicine shortages during the Biden planned pandemic.
that will include me if meds kick in. i know some people who will check out quick without their meds.😳
There are already shortages of medicine and IV Fluid.
I am all stocked up on meds, from India and have stocked up on replaceable auto parts, like brake pads, etc. as a result of the Covid and Biden shortages, and Sundances earlier warnings.
Its a lifestyle now, to have a “rathole” of neccessities, stocked up.
Dutch, do you have a particular Indian pharmacy that you use & trust? How are the antibiotics?
Can you imagine? The media will attack with everything they have. Trump will be accused of murdering old people with shortages of medicine, blah, blah, blah. It will be absolutely unbearable.
The lamestream media will attack, but will anyine pay any attention?
Their credibility is in the toilet, and with it their viewership.
The MarxMerdia is a fully integrated element of the Derp State, which MUST be destroyed!!
Team Tav will be here to fan the flames.
Still.
So typical anti-american union behavior. Cool.
This will give that UAW pile of rubbish goofball Shawn Fain a reason to do a 180.
These are all west coast, from CA to AK. One rep is a Canadian. This smells of democrat interference with PDJT’s policy. Products from India may travel via Suez to East coast.
It is the chicoms who cannot endure the tariffs. And most California politicians and power minions are bought by the chinese.
The winner will be the country that outlasts the tariff pressures.
Please God it’ll be the US.
If we can keep the sea lanes to the suez canal open…
How many Longshoremen are there? I would just like to know how many fall to see the big picture. Also wouldn’t their reduced imports be made up by exports or am I missing something?
And further down goes California.
The question is: Will China last 3 months before caving to the US tariffs?
Raised: China will reach a new arrangement with the US. China must keep its people employed, or, there will be big trouble for the Chinese Communist Party leaders in Beijing.
“Look, Comrades,..when I said “Chairmen for Life” I didn’t actually mean,..er that is to say,..can’t I just retire?”
Get a job coding.
Did I get that right Joe?
The Anti-Americanism is baffling – especially when these very people have so much, above and beyond what people in other countries have – and whose lives may well turn out even better.
I’ll take a group of astute business people running the country, with sympathies for Main Street and Middle America, over any scratch and claw life long grifter with personality disorders.
Thanks for the heads up. I will quietly grab the stuff we must have. I have been freed of the Prescription Prison and I only acquire what I need to get by anyhow since before the Pandemic.
If we aren’t ready to take some more punishment to MAGA the the GloboCorp. devils deserve to win. I find that last part unacceptable.
Sundancetradamus
Ports are going fully automated.
Ports are already leased out to CCP run companies. Controlled from Beijing.
And his staunchest supporters are sorry that you cannot see that everything President Trump does is to return this country to the people and make it great again.
Some refuse to see, while others hate seeing it.
Those who refuse and those who hate.
Does it have to be repeated?
Those not wearing the blinders that say “Made in China”.
I hope they have no trouble locating you.
Many of the Union’s leadership publicly endorsed the economic treason of NAFTA which outsourced millions of union and non union jobs of Americans and caused economic devastation across america
There it is. The public needs to recognize that there are hard working honest people in these jobs (not all, but that’s true anywhere) but the unions are not pro-America. Unions are generally corrupt from top to bottom. There is no accountability because when they drive one business under they just take the show on the road. Union management answers to nobody.
The antics of the union 40 years ago trying to put Hormel out of business is one clear example. They cared not one whit for the workers who were being hurt, nor for the public they hurt nor for anyone they terrorized with their crimes. What they cared was that abusing power in Austin would provide an easier extortion racket some other place the next time.
I remember that. You are referring to Austin, MN?
yes
Unions-Government= Crime cartels
The union was very smug when they could “shut down commerce” during the election run up. With more things made domestically, their window of influence dwindles by the day. It will be tough in the short term.
ILWA, thanks for dropping your masks and flaunting your OBiden/Globalist bonafides…
…NOW F-OFF AND MOVE TO CANADA. FAFO.
MAGA!
If they weren’t so drunk with libturd KoolAid, they’d see past their Pinocchio noses and realize they may be even busier the other side of the epic battle…
…where American products are loaded at the LA and Long Beach docks and headed to quality-seeking customers enjoying free trade throughout the God-fearing free world.
-MAGA
Yes!!!! The USA has been tariffed and trade barrier-ed out of selling to other nations.
We will be doing the exporting to nations that we were not allowed to sell into.
Maybe they make side $$$$ looking the other way when shipments of contraband and such come into the USA.
Note that ILA (east and gulf coast) and ILWU (west coast/Hawaii) are entirely separate unions. There is no “ILWA”.
SOS/DD
Was arguing with National Review readers, and they were so anti-tariff that I found it surprising. They based their arguments on free trade theory and Ricardo and freedom generally that if felt a little forced and disingenuous. Then I realized they were all voting their proximity to Wall Street generally and their 401ks specifically. Same with Longshoremen — where you stand depends very much on where you sit.
Coos Bay, Oregon supposed to be gearing to receive container ships
ILWU backed Harris. They represent the west coast.
ILWA backed Trump, they represent the east coast and gulf.
Two different unions.
ILA, not ILWA.
One small detail I haven’t seen mentioined….all those big fancy shiny container ships?
A lot of them are staffed with crews, by and of the American Merchant Marine…unions…in today’s world, I don’t know if there is the same solidarity across the union spectrum?
Could get real interesting….
Last I knew most of those container ships around the world had little to do with America.
The hull? Built in China.
The owner? Just about any foreign corporation not based in the United States.
Where’s the vessel registered/flagged? Panama is likely.
The crew? Liberians or any other sort notably not from the first world.
These are mostly just examples.
A lot of this was driven by gaming the margins to increase profitability for the traders.
President Trump should declare, “I’m putting tariffs on China to protect American jobs — and now the union bosses want to side with the globalists and sell you out? Not a chance — under Trump, American workers come first, not foreign profits!”
And then declare that under his leadership, American dockworkers will never be replaced by automation controlled by foreign corporations. (Remember the post from Sundance about Automation in December 2024)
He should point to the recent contract fight between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and foreign-owned shipping conglomerates, in which American workers are attacked for refusing automation that would hand over U.S. ports to foreign interests.
Trump should pledge that all critical U.S. freight operations will remain under human control, that all port equipment must be American-made, and that no foreign entity will own or operate America’s ports.
This stance would reassure American workers under immediate threat, expose the national security risks of automated, foreign-owned docks, and frame Trump as the only candidate standing between American sovereignty and the globalist sellout Biden represents.
It would turn the recent port labor battles into a national security issue, where Trump is the defender of American strength, and his opponents are the enablers of foreign control.
Protect the dock workers currently stabbing him in the back? I hope not.
Is it the dock workers or the union leadership? This strategy would separate the two because tjhe members want long term security. Leadership is bought by globalist.
Along with auditing the Panama Canal Treaty, there needs to be another audit…
of the National Maritime Security Act of 2002.
https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ295/PLAW-107publ295.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109hhrg22506/html/CHRG-109hhrg22506.htm
One more…
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2019-CSSS-USCG-MTSA-101-508.pdf
Just a random thought….if it becomes a problem…and a deal not made with the longshoremen…could that be a push to put us into ‘nationalizing’ the industry and further adding to the quiver of reasons to impeach PDJT? Any thoughts out there?
They didn’t give a shit when the rest of America was losing our manufacturing and other production jobs to foreign manufacturers. Entire American towns and cities hit the skids and died while they were busy unloading foreign made junk. So why should we give a shit about them? See this finger? Twirl on it.
Interesting word picture. I endorse it. Kind of like the hubbub of due process for the illegals while silent about J 6ers
ZING
Right on!
Hold fast!
No one ever said this would be easy but we went through worse during WWII when my parents had what they called a “war stamp drawer.” Back then you needed war stamps to buy everything from meat to sugar and flour. It was all in short supply but Americans stuck together in those days.
Now is the time to show what we’re made of!
still have used up sugar ration card. meat card hardly used as no meat.
Wow, that’s amazing! My 5 sibs were all 10 – 15 years older than me so I was born after WWII and never saw a ration card…but we continued to call that dresser drawer ‘war stamp drawer’ for the next 30 years…
I listen to the old Jack Benny radio show on YT. Wartime shows reference a point system. Born in ’66, so I don’t know. Grapenuts were not rationed.
It was probably a war crime to feed Grapenuts to German POWs.
Back then, we were all Americans. Today, not so much.
Globalist/Dem/some RINOs motto…
Divide and Conquer.
From where they’re sitting, so far, so (tragically) good.
In fact, Aggiegirl, so wide are the engineered chasms in all categories, I am unsure how we put America back together as one again.
I seem to remember Trump saying in a Rally about five years ago, “Union leadership is by and large corrupt…whereas their members are great people.”
And he was speaking as a man who had been dealing with corrupt unions around the world since he was a college graduate.
Cargo train traffic between Los Angeles/Long Beach and Fontana (hub before going over Cajon Junction) seems pretty normal. I go to the dog park by the train tracks 2-3 times a week. Train traffic looks steady and just as large.
US shipbuilders need skilled employees. Don’t complain. Adapt.
The big question is: Who can hold out the longest, China or the USA. If millions, in China become unemployed, then the Communist Gov has a major problem on their hand because the peasants will take to the streets. China can overcome this by letting XI resign and thus he saves face by not looking weak. Then the new person can negotiate with PDJT and not appear weak.
Route the cargo ships to Florida ports and bypass the CA Longshoreman unions. DeSantis previously offered them for Nat Sec purposes during covid when ships were backing up in CA. Bypass CA altogether and use the Panama Canal and the Great Gulf of America to offload goods at numerous port cities in the south.
Yes. More than one way to skin a cat (polecat that is)!
DJT is creating a global paradigm shift to reignite US manufacturing… which means those longshoreman and shipping jobs that are eliminated aren’t coming back. I do feel for them. Their livelihoods and way of life are being threatened and self preservation is a normal and natural reaction. I do feel for them. Fear is a great motivator.
But… American workers dealt with the same hardship when NAFTA created a global economic paradigm shift, aka “giant sucking sound” eliminating tens-of-millions of jobs in the US. The same was true as the internet created the “white collar” paradigm shift allowing US companies to outsource white collar jobs “thought to be stable and secure” to foreign companies.
We are witnessing the natural ebb and flow of the economic/business cycle.
Oh… forget China, the Yuan, the new silk road, and everyone who defends that oppressive, murderous communistic regime.
I heard a news report on a CBS radio affiliated station today and they are already reporting about shortages and the need for retailers to start ordering for back to school and the holidays shopping seasons to avoid “looming shortages due to reduced overseas shipments ” .
They will be priming the pump from now on.
Sounds like retail propaganda..they still have plenty of stock and we should buy less cheap crap anyway.
Went to buy shoes the other day and there were so many pairs, I could barely navigate the store.
Sizes and styles galore from all parts of the globe, a veritable shoe warehouse.
I could have bought many pairs, but decided to stick with what I actually “needed”.
No point to junk up on shoes just because they are cheap.
That goes for most products …avoid junk and just buy what you need!
For quite a few years I’ve been a semi-hoarder. When I find a product that I like and I have a few extra dollars, I go back and buy more and put it away knowing that in the future the price will have gone up. I don’t really have to buy much of anything other than perishables.
It all started when the national debt hit 5 trillion dollars. That much debt is unfathomable to me and I thought that there would be a major crash and reset. So stocking up on supplies, being frugal and learning what I call “Homesteading, Self-Reliant Skills” became a lifestyle and I enjoy it.
Rix Six: I do the same, although I fall below the hording level.
I can still walk thru my garage, that’s why only I call myself a semi-hoarder.
If that’s the criteria, I’m in trouble!
Same. With over 300 mason jars and a vegetable garden, we are set.
Canning jars need
rings and lids.
You might want to buy those up.
Emergency stockpiles are in the “needed” category. Storms, shortages and just having enough food and supplies are prudent. Those expiration dates sneak up on you, even on canned goods. Then you have to eat them and resupply the stock.
Lately, buying less household items, clothing, shoes, furniture and nick nacks, while trying to get rid of stuff.
All in all, a bit of organized hoarding is a good thing 🙂
The power outage this week over in Spain, Portugal and southern France showed those folks that they were not prepared for only a day or two.
The main needs were:
Fuel
Water
Food
Cash
And a CBS affiliate I listen to…was saying a lot of the products are either in production OR already in transport….that was last week, so who knows?
retail always purchases at least six months ahead
“All these moves are so transparently political, it almost makes you laugh.” YES!!!!
Return address San Fransicko, read no further. Union communists are ramping up the propaganda, mid-terms are fast approaching.
Might be time for the President to change his opinion and support complete automation at the ports. That would get the union’s attention and maybe moderate their support for tariffs.
It was only last December when the Longshoreman leadership met with President Trump and announced their absolute support of this president for what he did for them. But, alas, union leadership is scum that has NO respect for their workers – only whomever is lining their pockets.
International Longshoremen’s Association EVP Dennis Daggett Releases Statement Following Meeting With President Trump – The Last Refuge
The Murdoch Empire is leading the propaganda charge. Ole Rupert hates Trump, envy the underlying cause IMO. Trump is still vital Rupert impotent in more ways than one.
Shiving Trump is the only pleasure he gets these days.
What will the Longshoremen do when they are replaced by robots?
The same thing buggy whip makers did….
Fear of losing their jobs. Which is honestly why a union exists. They don’t give a fudge about the people losing their jobs from the subsidized, slave labor imported stuff. Why would they, they are democrats.
The Union members are partially responsible as well … they defend these same leaders tooth and nail and vote them back into office.
The members never seem to have issues with Millions of Union PAC and pension money gong to democrat party campaigns either.
It is not all the corrupt leaders.
Next time I hear moaning about lost longshoremen jobs in ports to AI and Automation … talk to the hand and my middle finger. Robots don’t care if stuff is flowing in or built here in the US flowing out.
They vote in their leadership and never vote to remove them … NOR vote to go to an open shop by voting out the Union all together.
I watched my dad take on the UAW Union Local at the Zinc Smelting Operation he supervised, in PA, at the shop level … the rank and file refused to vote out their Union Leaders even though they were forcing the closure of the plant where they worked … no matter how strong a case was built against the Union Leadership position.
By the way … further up the Union Food Chain, the AFL-CIO … the President of the AFL-CIO started life as a Tech Industry Union person and Lawyer.
It’s starting to hit the Trucking Industry too. President Trump’s EO making drivers speak and read English should help. There’s a lot of non English speaking drivers in the USA. . The Van trailer, door swingers that haul dry freight will be affected the most and that just happens to be where majority of non English speaking drivers are. I don’t see this affecting Refrigerated trailers either. Flatbed drivers may have a slow down too. I’m a driver, but don’t expect it affect me very much. I drive construction trucks.