Harold Daggett, the union boss who shut down 14 U.S. shipping ports, went on a rant about technology weeks before longshoremen went on strike on Tuesday, even targeting E-ZPass.
According to a report, the president of the International Longshoremen's Association blames the loss of toll booth workers as the move to EZ Pass allows drivers to speed through “as if nothing happened” did. interview last month.
“All the union jobs are gone,” he said in a Q&A posted on the ILA's YouTube channel on Sept. 5.
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“Someone needs to go to Congress and say, 'Hey, we're running out of time, this world is moving too fast for us.' The machine has to stop,” he said in the 17-minute video. Ta.
Mr. Daggett, who has led the union since 2011 and earns a salary of nearly $1 million, has pushed for nearly 80% pay increases for ILA's 45,000 employees from Maine to Texas and for automation projects by port operators. I requested it to be cancelled.
There are only three automated ports in the United States, including one in Los Angeles, and Daggett said the upgrades cost 800 longshoremen their jobs.
A World Bank report released in June found that U.S. container ports are woefully inefficient compared to rapidly automating container ports in Asia and Europe.
Of the 405 busiest ports around the world, 24 in the United States are the least efficient, with more than half ranking above 200. The 2023 Container Port Performance Index has been found.
“We're behind the times and we need to catch up,” shipping consultant John Monroe told the Post. “The rest of the world is also becoming more automated.”
Lars Jensen, chief executive of consultancy Vespucci Maritime, added: “I honestly don't understand how trade unions stubbornly reject the technology that the rest of the world is implementing.”
Maritime experts argue that port automation will ultimately make longshoremen's jobs safer.
Daggett argues that members should be paid more because their work is so dangerous.
Daggett said 17 ILA members have lost their lives on the job in the past three years, including a young man in Houston who was killed by a “large roll of paper that rolled off his back.” That's what it means.
Mr Daggett predicted the strike would cause major losses that would “paralyze” port operators.
“It's going to be all over the news in the first week,” he said in the video. “In the second week, you won't be able to sell your car because no cars will come off the ship, and in the third week, shopping malls will be closed because you can't get goods from China.”
Experts predicted that the work stoppage could cause retail prices, especially food, to rise within a week.
