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by akira2501 615 days ago
This automation is inevitable. The ports are a choke point created by unnatural monopoly and a labor union is the incorrect solution. Particularly because their labor actions have massive collateral damage to other labor interests.

I believe that if trucking were properly unionized the port unions would be crushed. They're not that powerful they've just outlived this particular modernization the longest out of their former contemporaries.

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So a union is okay for the trucking industry, but not for the dock workers?

And what exactly will the truckers be trucking if the ports are crushed?