There's like 4 subthreads in here that are all fixated on unions and how they might be evil or dysfunctional or actually just fine, even though: - nothing in t

There's like 4 subthreads in here that are all fixated on unions and how they might be evil or dysfunctional or actually just fine, even though: - nothing in the Reuter's article says what's causing the slow downs - the twitter thread from the Flexport CEO seems to be giving 2nd hand info that the main cause of delays currently is stuff not getting picked up _from_ the port, which may be more about the situation with trucking, and specifically he says there isn't a work slowdown at the port. - and we _know_ that the rest of the supply chain, including warehouses and trucks are also under a lot of pressure. So even if your people and equipment can unload ships quickly, you quickly run out of space unless customers come pick up their stuff. And that doesn't happen unless customer have both (a) trucks/drivers to pick stuff up and (b) warehouses to receive. And crap, what if they have too little warehouse space because they can't ship stuff out bc container ships are sailing back across the Pacific empty? Or because they're full of A which would ordinarily be consumed to produce C, except production has stalled because everyone's missing B because of the messed up supply chain. The rush to blame stuff on the unions seems to distract from the actual complexities of the current situation. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ports-supply-chain-fix-challenge-selling-247-shifts-2021-10-14/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ports-supply-chain-fix-c... https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046140284/among-the-countrys-supply-chain-problems-bottlenecking-at-ports-like-long-beach https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046140284/among-the-countrys...