'There will be things that people can't get,' at Christmas, White House warns
www.reuters.com
White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn that Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.

Not just the UK anymore, the strategic treat supply in the US is now under threat from the slow collapse of global supply chains.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Now it is focused on getting ports and other transportation hubs to operate on a 24-hour schedule

    Truly only a plan the BOTTLENECK CZAR could come up with: just make the slaves valued employees work longer, worse hours, and for less pay. I mean what could go wrong trying to load/unload ships in the middle of the night, or for that matter all of the sleep deprived truck drivers who are obliged to operate entirely in darkness

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's a good thing there's absolutely no history of dock workers or drivers going on strike due to terrible working conditions!

    • ancom20 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They could actually do that with the truckers, truckers already get special exemptions to hours of service (work hours) for things like oil production. Also another exemption was granted during covid. https://www.truckingtruth.com/wiki/topic-89/hours-of-service-exceptions-for-truck-drivers https://trucking.org/COVID19/federal-declarations