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Ports Shut Down from Maine to Texas as 45,000 Dockworkers Launch Strike over Pay & Automation (www.democracynow.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20998907

October 01, 2024

Guest - Peter Goodman
NewYorkTimes global economics correspondent

[a surprisingly pro-worker viewpoint from a writer from the NYT -PL]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Strikes over now until January

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is exactly why Unions are a band aid solution, you absolutely need to fight tooth and nail for reasonable conditions and pay from these blood sucking parasites but who the fuck loves sacrificing their health and youth on the alter of capitalism so much they would rail against automation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

They’re rightly concerned about losing jobs to automation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Automations great...

If there's a plan in place to support the displaced workers. Right now, they'll just be fired and the owners will keep making more money. Until there's a support system in place for them, I'm with the workers 100% on not automating everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

If automation really is the boon to society that we think it is, then buying out the displaced workers is a no-brainer. If, on the other hand, it's really just a boon for the bourgeoisie, then fuck their automation. Automation will be liberatory or it will be bullshit.