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by the time I closed out my order the other 3 had also sold outI was hoping you'd say you bought them all! Could have put them on eBay with a huge Buy-it-Now, but EB is a lot of nuisance in many ways.
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This guy just cannot resist the urge to go authoritarian on people. It's like the only tool in his chest. Someone needs to take him aside and give him a good talking.
The Hill: Biden threatens to call out companies that don't help end supply bottlenecks
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/576617-biden-threatens-to-call-out-companies-that-dont-help-end-supply
Need labor. Not enough people working to unload cargo and put it on trucks. The ILWU and PMA need to make some changes to the way labor is scheduled and trained if this is ever to be fixed. They can threaten to run the port 24/7 all they want but the fact of the matter is that most of our cranes are sitting idle not being used because there are not enough workers to run them.
I heard crane operators make crazy dough. How long does it take to train one?
I have to say it is weird to see photos and video of my workplace in the news constantly.
Maybe a month of actual training. But probably five times that in experience before they’re decent and can move cans with efficiency, which is crucial to prices of shipping and cargo handling. Most people could do it, but not if they’re afraid of heights. The cranes I work on have their cabs at 165 feet above the dock. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but I’ve been doing this for twenty years.
They are ILLEGALS who are here to commit a crime by stealing jobs from the poorest US citizens, mostly from black people.
Patrick saysThey are ILLEGALS who are here to commit a crime by stealing jobs from the poorest US citizens, mostly from black people.
Blackies reliably vote Dem, don't they? So they literally voted for this.
I’m fortunate enough to be a Teamster — a union driver — an employee paid by the hour. Most port drivers are ‘independent contractors’, leased onto a carrier who is paying them by the load. Whether their load takes two hours, fourteen hours, or three days to complete, they get paid the same, and they have to pay 90% of their truck operating expenses (the carrier might pay the other 10%, but usually less.) The rates paid to non-union drivers for shipping container transport are usually extremely low. In a majority of cases, these drivers don’t come close to my union wages. They pay for all their own repairs and fuel, and all truck related expenses. I honestly don’t understand how many of them can even afford to show up for work. There’s no guarantee of ANY wage (not even minimum wage), and in many cases, these drivers make far below minimum wage. In some cases they work 70 hour weeks and still end up owing money to their carrier.
So when the coastal ports started getting clogged up last spring due to the impacts of COVID on business everywhere, drivers started refusing to show up. Congestion got so bad that instead of being able to do three loads a day, they could only do one. They took a 2/3 pay cut and most of these drivers were working 12 hours a day or more. While carriers were charging increased pandemic shipping rates, none of those rate increases went to the driver wages. Many drivers simply quit. However, while the pickup rate for containers severely decreased, they were still being offloaded from the boats. And it’s only gotten worse. ...
Container companies have already decreased the maximum allowable times before containers have to be back to the port, and if the congestion is so bad that you can’t get the container back into the port when it is due, the container company can charge massive late fees.
As of last week, about 100 container ships are waiting to unload goods at the port of Long Beach and Los Angeles. It can take 8,000 trucks to unload a single container ship. A labor shortage is why these hundreds and thousands of containers filled with toys, shoes, clothes, electronics, and even raw materials are idling on the water.
The labor shortage has manifested in several areas. First, there are not enough workers at the ports to unload the containers. Second, the United States faces a shortage of 80,000 truck drivers, which means there are too few drivers to take the containers to warehouses and, later, take these goods from warehouses to stores and factories nationwide. ...
Unfortunately, for several decades, the leftists in this nation have been pushing for everyone to go to college as the only guarantee to economic mobility, while looking down on blue-collar workers. Mike Rowe, host of “Dirty Jobs,” sees such an approach as problematic.
This is quasi-permanent and thus constitutes a very real and internationally legal trade barrier that has only one real solution: return to manufacturing shit here in America.
https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91
I’m fortunate enough to be a Teamster —
And IF ONLY ONE KID is documented as starving because his school couldn't feed him from this mess, the entire Democrat Party will be fucked in all holes. Big time.
Another incompetent affirmative action pick, because - feeelinzzzz…
get the money back in this hemisphere where a Mexican or Canadian might spend it back in the US via work or tourism.
in fact the laws of supply and demand mean that they are actually going to make more money through higher rates, without changing a thing. They don’t have to improve or add infrastructure (because it’s costly), and they don’t have to pay their workers more (warehouse workers, crane operators, truckers).”
There is literally NO incentive to change, even if it means consumers have to do holiday shopping in July and pay triple for shipping.
there are Chinese tourist, but they don't speak the language whereasAnd don't share our Western values, worship their ancestors and cook dogs alive.
Vast majority of Americans no longer get their news from the MSM.
FuckCCP89 saysPatrick saysThey are ILLEGALS who are here to commit a crime by stealing jobs from the poorest US citizens, mostly from black people.
Blackies reliably vote Dem, don't they? So they literally voted for this.
The blacks who voted for that feel that the illegals are needed to pick and process food so those Blacks will have something to buy with their welfare money.
Last year, no gatherings. This year, no toys
What NONE of them do is go anywhere near an international shipping port...except for export but good luck with that.
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