The media is owned by the corporations

Big business wants to crush the unions PERIOD!!! STOP THE HATE

Just as we no longer commute bus horse and carriage, the world hasn’t needed longshoremen for many decades now. It’s time to fire them all and move forward in life. Not paying their ridiculous ransoms will save hundreds of billions of dollars for all Americans.

Communist and a luddite. What a combination.

I think we should do away with all middle class jobs I say put the middle class out of work then we could be just like Cuba and Venezuela and North Korea I am shocked at how many people vote for this crap

Yet another good video. I do feel pain for the people who might lose their jobs, but if they're not intelligent enough to know that they're going away, what are you gonna do? I'm sorry, stupid unions have caused most of our pain. Car compare closing or Abandoning America.

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5:16 "And the real wages of those construction workers increased" I have never heard a more brazen lie in my life

Im sorry but every country is moving to automation and things are much more efficient that way. Keeping people in the loop is detrimental for progress and profits.

Unions tend to cut their own throats.... The Boeing mechanics going on strike for several months, working for a company losing market-share to competitors, an example.... I would have President Trump have the military take over these ports, just as the railroads were taken over by an earlier President, and kick the union(s) out....Has national security ramifications, just like the ' woke ' military....

Once a machine can do a task, it is no longer a job for a human. All workers should continuously look for ways to make themselves valuable in other endeavors BEFORE their jobs disappear.

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All I'm hearing is, we need to stop buy goods from other countries.

We call your bluff, let the robots work. That whole field can be autonomous, let it happen. Just remember the robots won’t strike.

Skynet, movie plots comming true.

generalizing unions as bad is dangerous to worker's rights

Greed...no matter if it's for or against automation is bad. Wealth is never something to try to hold to. "The [money] must flow" (Dune). In addition, it is School Unions who stop schools from firing bad teachers (usually senior) and replacing them with good teachers (usually younger). The protection of the inefficient, the irresponsible, the un-evolving is a disaster for any business process.

At what point does it become extortion. He certainly doesn’t sound like negotiating or good faith bargaining. He is a poor representative in my opinion. Comes across as an asshole.

I work in a factory with a lot of automation and AI use, guess what, they still pay wages to inspect parts, and do people think these robots fix themselves? Learning to be a technician on those robots could be huge money.

That Longshore Union leader is a fine example of why Unions are anathema to a free society.

Unions have become big business they get union dues and make empty promises to the people paying the dues. Automation yes will cut jobs but in the end will make the transfer of products faster and safer. Robots don't boycott.

Well let's stop working because robots are now and there will be no jobs at all jest look around and all the things we have in the United States are made in China

Unions are done they dont even know it. They burned themselves!

Luddites gonna luddite. Enjoy the unemployment line, assholes. Heaven forbid you learn how to do a real job.

Would love to see you do a video on how the American pilot union, ALPA, is holding back new pilots with the 1500 hour rule.

There's no jobs in United States every thing is made in China every peace of equipment thay used in shipping is made in China so jest go home and shut up

would take your word if you werent funded by the coke brothers, surely you couldve found someone a single union leader that would agree to the interview but im sure you didnt try.

Unions are great for Unions, not so much for individual union members. Unions long ago began playing both sides against the middle. They represent management as well as the workers, so they can keep the membership dues coming in and pretend to stand up for their workers. I've been on both sides of the issues, so I know where in I speak. As management, I can't wait to get a contract locked up with what ever union I am dealing with. Now I have wages and hours locked in, I can make a completive bid on what ever I am producing, and be confident I can make expected profits. If the union fails to supply their labor to meet my needs, I sue them, based on the contract we signed. Go ahead and strike !!! Every day my law suit grows as does your legal fees, and I wrote the contract to cover all expectations and possible outcomes, including a strike. If the longshoremen want to manually unload cargo, I'll set aside a portion of my docks for that purpose, and automate the rest. It won't take long for biology to remove any obstructions to progress. Every one gets old, and retires, and clears the way for younger better trained folks. What young person wants to buck cargo in the cold and wet or the brutal sun, when they could be inside working a computer control. The next generation automatically adjusts to their needs and demands. And younger folks are not inclined to do hard work, when there is an easier path. Every one of these dock workers are the beneficiary of automation !!! You don't see them handling boxes and barrels by hand do you ??? But that's how they used to do it, all mussel and sweat. None of these dock workers could do the same job that their Grandfathers did on the dock, they don't have the physical stature nor the emotional drive to make things better for themselves and everyone around them. Don't rush automation, time, tide and biology will change everything. I remember working for the railroad 55 years ago. We still had fireman on the locomotive, even though the engine was diesel electric, and firemen hadn't tended a fire in over 50 years !!! Conductors rode in the caboose, and would oversee the brakemen and the engine crew. Now there are no more cabooses, no conductor, and the two brakemen ride in the cab with the engineer. Smaller crew, more efficient, two way radios for signaling, so signal lanterns seldom used any more, and no need for other crew members to pass signals on a blind set. It just took time to get the old guys to retire, and put more efficient methods into practice. Time does heal everything !!! Don't rush the automation thing !!! Everything has it's time and place. Tim

Look blockheads, This guy is a member of a union, the SAG. Also about 8% of the private sector jobs in America are unionized. Maybe, just maybe it's not the unions who are the problem? Maybe it's the other 92% of workers. You know why these guys get paid so well, it is a dangerous job and it never stops, not because of weather, or anything, those ships need to be unloaded and reloaded ASAP. It costs the shipping line money every minute that ship is on the pier, and God help everyone if she is delayed sailing. Because the next ship has to wait then. I guarantee that if I were to bring a way into automate YOUR job, not one of you would think it's a great idea.

Trump gets in office he’ll straighten that guy out real quick

The fact this video has 872K views as of writing gives me hope in humanity.

automated machines don't take breaks, don't complain, don't strike. like it or not, it's going to happen.

While it is true that in the past new technology made things better, I strongly question if that will hold true for much longer. I worry that we will reach a point in the not-so-distant future where automation and AI is so good that there just isn't a place for humans any more. And when humans can't get work, how do they earn the money to buy all those fancy AI produced goods?

"They get better jobs, safer jobs with more pay" Tell that to a 40-50 something that has done that job since leaving school. It's not that automation isn't better, it is. It is more efficient, safer and keeps the industry competitive. What we have here are companies pretending to be sympathetic while calling the people, genuinely afraid for the future, 'Luddites' and 'in the stone age'. Don't think it doesn't work the other way. I've seen fully robotized factories move from Europe to Asia where it's all 'hands on'. Hands on and no safety provisions because the law doesn't require it. Labor is so much cheaper elsewhere, so are lives. The union guy is knocking his head against a wall and not looking for a solution. He wants status quo and, clearly, it's not a solution. The company wants more efficiency for better profits and seem to lack the imagination to propose a plan that will work for everyone while still reaching their goals. There is a solution there but both sides seem to be too knuckleheaded to even consider negotiation to make the solution work.

US ports are the slowest and laziest ports in the world! Screw those useless and selfish unions!

who cares about teh union workers, if everything is automated? just keep working without them. accelerate teh automation and get rid of ALL the striking workers with automation.

Before automation and containers, the best place to get cheap stolen goods were the pubs near the wharves .... from a wharfie!

Why not just fire all of them and get non-union workers?

This is just like when replace the elevator workers with automatic elevator when ask for more money.

This lady probably still wears a Covid mask.

I'm a port trucker in Charleston SC, when the ports want to run efficiently, they can, but the "workers" often deliberately slow things down.

"They took our jobs!" 😮 💛

The only worthwhile unions are the trade unions. It will be a long time before automation can replace electricians, linemen, steam fitters, plumbers, or stone masons. Transporting, loading, and unloading goods doesn't require a vast amount of skill. If your job can be completed by a robot programmed to do a specific, tedious, monotonous task, then what does that say about your job? Teacher's unions are B.S. also but for completely different reasons

Unions are the reason technology like this exists. They are demanding compensation they don't deserve, so they are being replaced.

"on average" Okay so for the mathematically inept how you figure averages is as follows... To calculate an average, add up all the numbers in a set, then divide the sum by the total number of numbers in the set; essentially, it's the sum divided by the count. Formula: Average = (Sum of all values) / (Number of values). Example: To find the average of the numbers 2, 5, and 8, add them together (2 + 5 + 8 = 15) and then divide by 3 (the number of numbers), resulting in an average of 5. Key points about average: "Average" is often referred to as the "mean" in mathematics. This method calculates the arithmetic mean, which is the most common way to find an average. So to give you an example of a problem written out... Currently the average age of a millennial is 35.5 years... And how you get that answer is the following.. The youngest millennial is 28 years old The oldest is 43... So you will literally go from 28 to 43... 28+ 29, etc etc until you get to number 43. =... And then you will take the sum of all of those numbers added together from 28 to 43 then you will divide that number by the amount of numbers that you added together so there is a total of 15 numbers so you would take that figure divided by 15 and it will spit out that the average is literally 35.5. The reason I laid this out is because they say that these people find better jobs on average The problem is simply how many people is within the sample pool in which they would have researched to determine what the fuck the average woud be? Of course it also would greatly depend on how they conduct their survey... So in other words do they call up the person and they ask hey your name came up as one of the people laid off from blah blah blah it's been blah blah blah amount of time do you have another job? The person on the other end of the phone would say yes... So at that point do they ask them is that job better than the old one you lost? That person says yes... So do they stop right there and go ahead and count that or do they ask that person what their previous pay rate was versus what their previous pay rate is now and then they basically figure out what the difference is in record that is there any actual analytical math that goes into that to truly determine that it really is better and do they have a measure as to how much better? And then the other thing is are they waiting a year before they call these people or are they doing this on a scale of say 2 to 4 years so you know Bill got laid off back in fucking 2020 and we're going to call him up now and ask him hey did you get a better job and then he says yeah and even if he provides you with the mathematics on how much better it pays well it's also 4 years into the future so how can you actually count that as being better given that the cost of living has also went up probably 20% at least higher than his newfound better job... So there is a lot of bullshit in these so-called statistics I mean remember you can make a pull say any damn thing you want. This woman install seems to be bitching up a storm about the Union guy only trying to protect himself and or the only reason he's trying to protect these jobs is obviously his own but is it lost on everyone here that this is exactly what the broad advocating for automation is doing? I mean one's just as guilty as the other what you have is to positions you have two parties arguing for each of their perspective position this is normal and by the way this has been labor versus management since the beginning of time on unions...

So are we not going to talk about the times socialism did work? Burkina Faso under Thomas Sankara, Chile under Salvador Allende, not to mention all of the social democratic nations (Denmark, Sweden, Norway)

I challenge you to find a more insufferable human being than Thurnburg.

We can't get rid of illegal aliens who will pick our food? The reality is if there is a economic demand for fast more efficient methods of work it will always happen if left to the free market. Unions demanding not new Tech or business using sub market labor rates tend to retard the progress but that can only hold it up so long.

Interesting if it is not harmful but what would the cost per pound be?