Container Shipping and Supply Chain Delays with Gregg Easterbrook
The Lawfare Podcast
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The People's Side of the Supply Chain
Covet has disrupted a lot of labor markets, as everybody knows. We're actually having issues with the people side of this very intricate supply chain. Dock workers at the port of los angeles, which is the most important port in the western hemisphere, now make from a hundred to 300 thousand dollars a year. It's just that covid has disrupted the ability of some of them to work. Some of them have gotten sick. There aren't ships going back in the opposite direction. And that has caused a traffic jam that you see off southern california of giant ships waiting their turn to unload.
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