Unfortunately Pete failed to word one thing carefully enough, and while rushing to promote infrastructure missed an opportunity to point out the impact of the GOP War on Working Class Wages and Benefits.
#1. Just saying "ports" is now unfair to the "ports" themselves. The "ports" are unloading the ships but facing problems with businesses…
Unfortunately Pete failed to word one thing carefully enough, and while rushing to promote infrastructure missed an opportunity to point out the impact of the GOP War on Working Class Wages and Benefits.
#1. Just saying "ports" is now unfair to the "ports" themselves. The "ports" are unloading the ships but facing problems with businesses not moving their containers out of the ports fast enough. So the containers already on shore have been clogging up the process. Pete could have clarified that while also giving his department a pat on the back by mentioning their efforts to get those containers not being efficiently handled by businesses out of the ports themselves and into other longer term holding areas. The Ports of LA and Long Beach just recently had to impose a $100 per container per day fine on businesses for leaving their containers clogging up the ports.
#2. CEPR had a good paper on how its the collapse of trucking in America which is currently responsible for not getting the containers moved around the country. Average age of truckers has now risen to 55 due to the GOP attack on the Teamsters as part of their War on Working Classes Wages and Benefits. Thanks to this War on Working Class Wages and Benefits, it makes sense nobody wants to go into trucking as a career.
In other words, the free labor market judged a while ago the results of the GOP War on Working Class Wages and Benefits as it pertains to trucking and decided to not supply the market with truckers.
There is an attempt, which hasn't gained much steam yet, to try and shift blame away from the GOP War on Wages and Benefits and toward the lack of trucking schools. Here again, we see the GOP trying to mislead to avoid acknowledging free labor market economics.
Trucking schools are free market enterprises. If there was a demand by workers to learn trucking, trucking schools would pop up everywhere trying to make money teaching people trucking. It's only the lack of anyone wanting to learn to be a trucker because of the GOP War on Wages and Benefits having made trucking unattractive that causes nobody to want to invest in trucking schools.
Unfortunately Pete failed to word one thing carefully enough, and while rushing to promote infrastructure missed an opportunity to point out the impact of the GOP War on Working Class Wages and Benefits.
#1. Just saying "ports" is now unfair to the "ports" themselves. The "ports" are unloading the ships but facing problems with businesses not moving their containers out of the ports fast enough. So the containers already on shore have been clogging up the process. Pete could have clarified that while also giving his department a pat on the back by mentioning their efforts to get those containers not being efficiently handled by businesses out of the ports themselves and into other longer term holding areas. The Ports of LA and Long Beach just recently had to impose a $100 per container per day fine on businesses for leaving their containers clogging up the ports.
#2. CEPR had a good paper on how its the collapse of trucking in America which is currently responsible for not getting the containers moved around the country. Average age of truckers has now risen to 55 due to the GOP attack on the Teamsters as part of their War on Working Classes Wages and Benefits. Thanks to this War on Working Class Wages and Benefits, it makes sense nobody wants to go into trucking as a career.
In other words, the free labor market judged a while ago the results of the GOP War on Working Class Wages and Benefits as it pertains to trucking and decided to not supply the market with truckers.
There is an attempt, which hasn't gained much steam yet, to try and shift blame away from the GOP War on Wages and Benefits and toward the lack of trucking schools. Here again, we see the GOP trying to mislead to avoid acknowledging free labor market economics.
Trucking schools are free market enterprises. If there was a demand by workers to learn trucking, trucking schools would pop up everywhere trying to make money teaching people trucking. It's only the lack of anyone wanting to learn to be a trucker because of the GOP War on Wages and Benefits having made trucking unattractive that causes nobody to want to invest in trucking schools.