The dockworkers have a point: they enable huge shipping profits with a lot of personal sacrifice. But they resist automation which is non competitive for shippers.

This is bullshit. They earn way above-market wages due to their ability to hold the rest of the economy hostage. Their job can be automated using modern tools and the docks can operate safely with a fraction of the workers they have now.

The union is insisting on a ban on automation at the docks, as a way of job security. If automation was in place, they would have no leverage in a strike as they would be unneeded.

They should pull a Reagan and break the union like with the air traffic controllers.