[tomder55]

Amazon is ordering their employees back to the office. Employees who have worked in their pajamas and started their liquid lunches early while getting a sun tan at home are not happy .

Why is Amazon doing this and having to keep expensive offices operational ? Because productivity has suffereds and because the labor market has shifted . They are no longer beholden to the will of their employees.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Faces Employee Revolt Over Full-Time Return To Office Mandate, 73% Consider Quitting: Survey (yahoo.com)

Amazon workers 'rage apply' for other jobs after RTO mandate (nypost.com)

These employees are now going to feel the full extent of Bidenomics-Kamenomincs .
They did not have to pay the cost of the commute (and this ME conflict will raise the price of gas . It is already happening ) . They have to buy clothing again (and this dock strike is going to cause retail prices to go up ) This foolish move by the Fed to lower rates is bound to bring back the inflation rate that was barely contained .

And worse for these remote workers . They will be held accountable for their time. Believe me ; Amazon would not be doing this if they did not feel they were being hosed by their remote workers.

And screw the dock workers and their extortion. Who gets a 77% increase in wages and a tripling of benefits ? Who will pay for it ?

Clueless Joe can act . But as of now he won't .

"It's collective bargaining," "I don't believe in Taft-Hartley."

Biden says he won't intervene if port workers go on strike (cnbc.com)

Screw him too

More on the job market
Americans quit their jobs at the lowest rate since 2020 in August (yahoo.com)

and please fill your gas tanks . The supply chain was already disrupted because we allow Houthis pirates to hit ships . Now this attack by Iran did much more damage than we are led to believe .Israel is going to his back hard ;probably at Iran's energy assets .

Rising oil prices after Iran strike could increase US gas prices, experts say - ABC News

[tomder55]

Union boss has 7,000 sq foot mansion and the Dems in his hip pocket .

Harold Daggett's sprawling NJ mansion has Bentley, 5-car garage and guest house (nypost.com)

Because they are middle class for the little guy.

[tomder55]

good news the unions have agreed to extend existing contract until January 15 to continue negotiations .

[jlisenbe]

How convenient for the VP.

[tomder55]

How convenient for the VP.

According to Politico

Quiet — and, finally, public — pressure from President Joe Biden and his team helped seal the agreement, people familiar with White House thinking said.

Port strike deal ends no-win dilemma for Democrats - POLITICO


They did some polling and found that people did not want shortages a couple of weeks before the election.

So they gave marching orders to management ,who upped the ante and now has a 62% increase on the table.

Also DeSantis put some pressure on them.

‘Simply unacceptable’: DeSantis suggests alternative to longshoremen strike resolution (local10.com)

[tomder55]

The strike is done for now . Wages and benefits aside ;one of the biggest issues is likely to remain a problem. Our ports are some of the worse run ones in the world. Ranked by efficiency only one US port is in the top 50 .

World Bank Document

Many of our major ports are in the 300s and Savannah is ranked the worse . You would think this would come up in negotiations . Well it does because the unions are opposed to the one thing that would improve the ranking ...... automation.

USMX is trying to fool you with promises of workforce protections for semi-automation. Let me be clear: we don’t want any form of semi-automation or full automation.

Letter of Opposition to USMX’s Misleading Statement – ILA Union

This even though studies show that automation is beneficial for the workers also,

Like other technological advancements, automation arouses fears of job losses. Yet the LBCT and TraPac terminals show that it can be a win-win: Cargo-handling growth is yielding gains for labor on the docks. And since ports are at the at beginning and the end of the supply chain, they have a multiplier effect on job creation throughout the economy. “History and economics show no intrinsic conflict among technological change, full employment, and rising earnings,” the MIT study on the future of work concluded.26

Nacht-and-Henry-Automation-Report-May-2022-Final.pdf (pmanet.org)

[tomder55]

The World Bank global port ranking helps show what this means in practice. The Container Port Performance Index 2023 ranks ports by the amount of time a ship spends in port. Not a single American port cracks the top 50, with top-ranked Charleston, S.C., coming in at 53. Yangshan in China is No. 1, and China is investing in ports throughout Latin America.
This isn’t the longshoremen’s first tangle with technology. In the 1960s the container revolution marked a shift from stuffing cargo inside the holds of a ship to putting cargo inside steel containers. Containers reduced the number of dockworkers needed, and the ranks of longshoremen declined as it was adopted. Today other nations are automating faster than the U.S. That means they are becoming cheaper and more productive.

How Bad Are U.S. Ports? The Best Is 53rd Worldwide - WSJ