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Originally Posted by Dean Jarvis
So this is breaking news! We have been dealing with this since July of 2014 and it really swung into action back in September when the Longshoremen went on a slowdown that has continued to ramp up until total gridlock at the ports. Many companies I work with had their Christmas items anchored off Long Beach all the way up to Tacoma/Seattle.
In all these months I've only seen 3 stories about it on the news. Maybe Barry's friends in the MSM giving the unions cover. And should it be on the radar Barry would be pressured to force the union back to work and the unions don't want that.
This is very serious with no end in sight. This F****ng Barry is hurting a lot of small businesses and consumers. WTF  |
On the export side(which could be argued as being more important as it's exports that largely pays for all the awesomeness) we've been feeling it bite HARD since September.
There's at least one American household name brand manufacturer(the one I work with) that does a LOT of exporting which has largely abandoned West Coast distribution(outside of expensive high value low cube air freight).
Costs have exploded and delivery times to Asia Pacific suck…but at least we are seeing product trickling in.
It's been so bad that consumables that MUST be kept in stock, are on back order.
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But a good point is being raised.
The amount of media attention on this(tiny) doesn't come anywhere near matching the genuine size of the problem.
I certainly wouldn't want to live anyplace where people are convinced to work with a bayonet pointed at them. But the freedom to name and shame goes along with the freedom to strike I would think.
I wonder if this mess could draw any parallels to the Reagan-era traffic controller's strike?