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They will fail not because it cannot be done, but no union member will load these ships nor unload them. The real problem is not going to be technical, it will
by steve19 9y ago
They will fail not because it cannot be done, but no union member will load these ships nor unload them. The real problem is not going to be technical, it will be political.
The only way it could be done now is create non union ports on both ends of the route and never have your ships dock at unionised ports, where they would be blacklisted for ever going to a non unionised port and might even suffer sabotage.
Stevedore unions around the world cooperate with each other and are all corrupt, have rampart theft and use violence to bully members and non members into submission. You seen The Wire?
I worked in the shipping industry. Never again.
- rak00n 9y agoIsn't the union for loading and unloading different from union for shipping crews? Why'd these two unions cooperate?
- steve19 9y ago"Workers of the world, unite!" You are correct that the stevedore unions are different from the seafarers unions. The issue is that they cooperate legally or illegally. They also cooperate internationally. Its the brotherhood above all else. (and I use the gendered language intentionally because I have never come across a more misogynistic group of people in my life)
- deevolution 9y agoThat process of loading/unloading will probably be automated away too.