usernamesAreTricky to politics @lemmy.world · 8 hours agoUS port workers and operators reach deal to end East Coast strike immediately | Tentative deal includes a 62% wage hike over six yearswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down11cross-posted to: workreform@lemmy.world
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minus-squarequeermunist she/herlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 hours agoAutomation will only be used to make the job tougher and more grueling. A job that used to take three people now has to be done by one, but at a much faster pace and now there’s a deadly robot that you have to work with. You work in supply chain. Let me guess. Desk job?
minus-squaredrdlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoAutomated ports do not work that way, where employees interact directly with a robot. Instead employees stay at a desk and minimal employees are on the ground. Like I had mentioned, automated ports are safer. https://youtu.be/P5kO_BnXAwc
Automation will only be used to make the job tougher and more grueling.
A job that used to take three people now has to be done by one, but at a much faster pace and now there’s a deadly robot that you have to work with.
You work in supply chain. Let me guess. Desk job?
Automated ports do not work that way, where employees interact directly with a robot. Instead employees stay at a desk and minimal employees are on the ground. Like I had mentioned, automated ports are safer.
https://youtu.be/P5kO_BnXAwc