SPECIAL GUEST

Andy Schectman

President of Miles Franklin 

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• Cost us a minimum $5 million a day.
  
• Demand side shock during COVID.
  
• There was more demand.
  
• If this goes longer than a week we will be in crisis. 
  
• We are so far behind w/ technology in our ports and infrastructure.
  
• You can automate a lot of that port and the system.
  
• The workers are saying we won’t stand for it.
  
• There are 85,000 workers.
  
• This is not a good thing at all and I don’t think the government will get involved at all.
  
• Port workers..they vote too.
  
• So this is a big deal happening right before a big presidential election.
  
• Who is the boogyman that the ILA is negotiation with?
  
• Is it the companies that own the ports?
  
• Who pays these guys?
  
• Port Authority which is a public organization.
  
• Not many ports are privately owned.
  
• These workers have the upper hand here.
  
• Where is the media on this?
  
• There is total and complete devastation and the MSM isn’t covering it.