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Posted on 10/17/21 at 12:37 pm to stout
Unions are for lazy fricks that can’t make it in the real world.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:02 pm to GetCocky11
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Hyperinflation is coming
No. No, it isn't.
You’re right. Hyperinflation isn’t coming. What’s coming, and already starting in fact is stagflation.
Time to get up in the White House attic, pull out Jimmy Carter’s “Misery Index”, then go ahead and get it dusted off and plugged in.
This post was edited on 10/17/21 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:18 pm to stout
That’s California for you
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:23 pm to stout
Bring in non-union workers. How many union crane operators can their be to form a picket line? I bet truckers could kick some arse if strikers try to mess with them, anyway. Ought to bring back Pinkerton strike busters like the old days.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:28 pm to stout
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However, one terminal in Long Beach has started using automated cranes, and truckers rejoice when they are summoned to pick up cargo there. It is efficient and quick.
Sounds like that $250k salary is in jeopardy
Until the unions exercise their political influence, and California legislates that even automated cranes require a operator present. Wont be the first time it has happened in union stronholds.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:39 pm to stout
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Sounds like that $250k salary is in jeopardy
Nope, Libtards will protect those jobs, via cali legislation,.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 1:48 pm to TimeOutdoors
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Unions making things inefficient? Who knew.
They never found Jimmy Hoffa.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 2:20 pm to Eeyore
quote:This. The international supply chain is fricked & they blame the guys at the bottom.
There are shitty unions representing workers up and down the food chain. My point is it’s dumb that they write an article making crane operators scapegoats. This problem far exceeds a guy in a crane at a dock.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 2:31 pm to Eeyore
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Total BS to blame a crane operator. This article seems fabricated and a distraction from the true source of the problem…Brandon. No crane operator would purposefully take 3-4h on one container, that’s a stupid angle to take. Those guys are skilled and professional and take pride in their work. They’d rather crank the ships in and out as fast as possible than milk each lift. This article makes no sense. Also, if it were about crane operators, they’d be coming from all ends of the earth to make a little extra and work in LA to fix the problem.
I've worked with switchmen that would take an entire 8 hour shift to pull one track in the yard because a yardmaster pissed him off.
I can totally believe this.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 2:33 pm to Fat and Happy
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Some part of this are the mentality I’m today’s world.
Everyone needs their arse chewed at some point and told to move with a purpose.
And the crane operators need a regular quota of cargo they have to move. Nothing insane and unsafe but taking your slow arse time should never be tolerated.
The problem is they have put in so many safety rules that if one follows them to the letter it takes forever to do anything.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 2:51 pm to stout
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However, one terminal in Long Beach has started using automated cranes, and truckers rejoice when they are summoned to pick up cargo there. It is efficient and quick.
Place I work in one unit had 16 additional packers for loading.
They started fricking around. Management put a robot in. We work on it. All their jobs were gone.
Took a week to install the new equipment.
1 week.
These crane operators days are numbered. They may not see it but their kids will. Where I work I try to hold onto every job and outsource zero. One day my kids may want a job like mine and I want it to be there.
Hell my 9 year old watches gas fired turbines on YouTube. Teach em all I know.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 3:00 pm to tenderfoot tigah
quote:Picking a conex? If it takes an op more than an hour to rig up and pick a conex, we've got waaaaay bigger problems
I've seen lifts take much longer than 4 hours.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 3:05 pm to oldskule
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The working man has the US by the balls right now!
Union crane operators making a quarter million dollars a year represent "the working man" to you?
Posted on 10/17/21 at 3:11 pm to stout
I've been to several of the ports around the country and yeah - the west coast ports are insanely awful. Typically I go to the intermodal ports on the east coast or CSX intermodal yards east of the MS River, but f*ck me if I've gotta go to Union Pacific intermodal or anything on the coast out west. Slow and incompetent just isn't the word for those places.
A lot of the problem with the backups at these ports is the railroads intentionally cutting their capacity to haul - they've furloughed a ton of their train crews and mothballed their locomotives all in the name of profits. There's no "trucker shortages" in dealing with these ports because there are trucks waiting 6+ hours in lines to get in to get their freight. BNSF and UP need to knock it off with their b.s. and get their trains running.
A lot of the problem with the backups at these ports is the railroads intentionally cutting their capacity to haul - they've furloughed a ton of their train crews and mothballed their locomotives all in the name of profits. There's no "trucker shortages" in dealing with these ports because there are trucks waiting 6+ hours in lines to get in to get their freight. BNSF and UP need to knock it off with their b.s. and get their trains running.
This post was edited on 10/17/21 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 10/17/21 at 4:13 pm to sugar71
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The international supply chain is fricked & they blame the guys at the bottom.
The flaw in your excuse-making for the unionistas is the international supply chain got 80+ ships to the port waiting to be unloaded. The bottleneck isn't further up the chain. It's where these union bums are.
Posted on 10/17/21 at 5:28 pm to stout
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Reminds me of reading about the LA river boat pilots
Exactly the same other than the whole river pilots don’t get paid without moving ships part.
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