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This strike is about automation, not pay.

US ports are some of the least efficient in the world because of these unions and how effectively they've opposed automation.

If dock workers strike for higher pay? Fine. Pay them and then automate their jobs.

If they strike for automation? They get no sympathy from me. The costs of NOT automating the docks are paid for by all of us.



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