Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse’

[mystery-ak]

Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse’
By Jack Phillips
September 29, 2021 Updated: September 29, 2021


Several industry groups have warned world leaders of a worldwide supply-chain “system collapse” due to pandemic restrictions, coming as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the current period of higher inflation will last until 2022.

The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned in a letter to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly that governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines.

If nothing is done, they warned of a “global transport system collapse” and suggested that “global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years’ worth of strain on transport workers take their toll,” according to the letter. It was signed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represent some 65 million transport workers around the world.

“All transport sectors are also seeing a shortage of workers, and expect more to leave as a result of the poor treatment millions have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat,” the letter said. “We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the U.N. General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now,” they wrote.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/workers-who-maintain-supply-chains-warn-of-worldwide-system-collapse_4023717.html

[catfish1957]

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Important read.  I have been seeing many examples of this already.  Supply Chain disruptions have dominoing effects, and I am afraid we have not seen the worst of it.   

The lack of supply of new cars to buy is just the tip of the iceberg

[mystery-ak]

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September 30, 2021
Leftist policies are wrecking global supply chains and triggering shortages and looming hyperinflation. Stand-by for capitalism to be blamed.
By Thomas Lifson

We already see soaring prices, empty store shelves, shortages of critical products, factories shut down, workers unemployed, and people freezing in their homes. Soon, progressives will be blaming capitalism itself and demanding more government controls if not outright seizure of the means of production. But in fact, these disruptions to what had been a smoothly operating integrated global economy that had raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last three decades are all due to progressive policies being enforced by those very governments that stand ready to seize even more power over our lives.

There are multiple sources of the troubles bedeviling the international division of labor, but they all have one thing in common: bad government policies pushed by progressives.

Start with Covid, a highly communicable virus that can be lethal, if left untreated, especially in people with comorbidities including obesity and diabetes. Governments around the world for the first time in human history decided to quarantine the healthy, not the sick, and went into “lockdowns” for a disease that has a 99.5% recovery rate, and which is most dangerous to an identifiable subset of their populations: the elderly, the obese, and the already ill.

Those lockdowns constricted production, and the resulting unemployment temporarily deferred demand for many goods, including durables like cars and home appliances. In the United States, tax-free payments were offered to unemployed people that were more lucrative than the taxable wages they might receive if the returned to work, resulting in a predictable artificial labor shortage, further crimping the manufacture and distribution of many goods.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/leftist_policies_are_wrecking_global_supply_chains_and_triggering_shortages_and_looming_hyperinflation_standby_for_capitalism_to_be_blamed_.html

[Free Vulcan]

I can attest.

Working in a factory, we've had one hell of a time getting parts and supplies.

I've even jokingly suggested getting a 3D printer.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Remember, all the things the Dems won't let manufacturers do in the US can be done offshore. 

Supply chain managers need to geo-politically multi-source their suppiers.

As the World attempts to diversify away from China, and as liberals in developed countries oppose capitalism; there is opportunity in other developing nations to grow business, mining, and manufacturing.

[catfish1957]

Remember, all the things the Dems won't let manufacturers do in the US can be done offshore. 

Supply chain managers need to geo-politically multi-source their suppiers.

Maybe the most hidden destructive impact of the Clinton presidency.  He sold out a huge chunk of national security in the mid '90's lock stock and barrel.

[GtHawk]

Remember, all the things the Dems won't let manufacturers do in the US can be done offshore. 

Supply chain managers need to geo-politically multi-source their suppiers.

As the World attempts to diversify away from China, and as liberals in developed countries oppose capitalism; there is opportunity in other developing nations to grow business, mining, and manufacturing.

Don't mean squat if longshoremen don't unload the ships.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Ships could be unloaded in Mexico or Canada, and the containers shipped by rail into the US.

The Dems will not allow any expansion of economic activity in the US.

For the last 20 years, they thought they were "recycling" when it was really being dumped in China and other $h!th0le countries.

The Dems are destroying the Atacama Desert in South America to obtain lithium for their electric vehicle utopia, but they won't allow drilling in the Arctic?  Nor allow the construction of natural gas power plants to charge those vehicles?

The Dems prohibit logging in the Northwest only to have their precious trees destroyed in wildfires.

The Dems are global NIMBY's.  They are gentrifying America.

[GtHawk]

Ships could be unloaded in Mexico or Canada, and the containers shipped by rail into the US.

The Dems will not allow any expansion of economic activity in the US.

For the last 20 years, they thought they were "recycling" when it was really being dumped in China and other $h!th0le countries.

The Dems are destroying the Atacama Desert in South America to obtain lithium for their electric vehicle utopia, but they won't allow drilling in the Arctic?  Nor allow the construction of natural gas power plants to charge those vehicles?

The Dems prohibit logging in the Northwest only to have their precious trees destroyed in wildfires.

The Dems are global NIMBY's.  They are gentrifying America.

If that were the cure we wouldn't have the ports at L.A. and Long Beach stacked up with cargo ships waiting to be unloaded and we wouldn't have empty shelves in grocery stores.

[libertybele]

We've prepared for years, but there's just no way to prepare for a continued lack of goods.

Civil unrest will also follow? Perhaps complete anarchy?

Those coming across our borders thinking that the U.S. is going to be able to sustain caring for them are in for a huge shock.

[skeeter]

We've prepared for years, but there's just no way to prepare for a continued lack of goods.

Civil unrest will also follow? Perhaps complete anarchy?

Those coming across our borders thinking that the U.S. is going to be able to sustain caring for them are in for a huge shock.

they will be among the last to suffer. Good ol mr & mrs middle class will bear the full force of the consequences.

[catfish1957]

they will be among the last to suffer. Good ol mr & mrs middle class will bear the full force of the consequences.

The poor from other countries have lived and learned how to prepare and opeate in hard times.  It's the 25 year old shftless broke liberal in his parent's basement who is in for a rude awakening when he doesn't understand why his Dominos pizza isn't delivered.

Unprepared Americans will suffer most.

[GtHawk]

The poor from other countries have lived and learned how to prepare and opeate in hard times.  It's the 25 year old shftless broke liberal in his parent's basement who is in for a rude awakening when he doesn't understand why his Dominos pizza isn't delivered.

Unprepared Americans will suffer most.

Well to be fair those poor from other countries learned how to deal with it by illegally crossing our borders and that 25 year old shftless broke liberal in his parent's basement hasn't got the option and the rude awakening he will get is learning that the communists he was depending on care more about the illegals than any American citizen, shiftless or not.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Wasn't the 1990s/2000s proposal for Inerstate Highway 69 a component of an effort to unload ships in Mexican ports instead of American ones?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69

The Mexican longshoremen would be just doing the longshoring that Americans no longer wanted to do.

[catfish1957]

Laura Ingraham had an excellent opening op-ed last night on this very subject.  Couldn't link video, but here is the link to her site on Fox

https://www.foxnews.com/shows/ingraham-angle

[catfish1957]

Fellow Preppers ....

Gold has been hanging around the $1730-1750 /oz the past few days.  Jus sayin'. 

[GrouchoTex]

Had this conversation with a customer of mine yesterday.

[Smokin Joe]

Ships could be unloaded in Mexico or Canada, and the containers shipped by rail into the US.

The Dems will not allow any expansion of economic activity in the US.

For the last 20 years, they thought they were "recycling" when it was really being dumped in China and other $h!th0le countries.

The Dems are destroying the Atacama Desert in South America to obtain lithium for their electric vehicle utopia, but they won't allow drilling in the Arctic?  Nor allow the construction of natural gas power plants to charge those vehicles?

The Dems prohibit logging in the Northwest only to have their precious trees destroyed in wildfires.

The Dems are global NIMBY's.  They are gentrifying America.

They aren't gentry, they're just high dollar hood rats and trailer park trash.

[Smokin Joe]

The poor from other countries have lived and learned how to prepare and opeate in hard times.  It's the 25 year old shftless broke liberal in his parent's basement who is in for a rude awakening when he doesn't understand why his Dominos pizza isn't delivered.

Unprepared Americans will suffer most.

The poor from other countries come here to discover clean running water, flush toilets, electricity, appliances, vehicles...
and bother, they are rich, in comparison to where they came from.

Working for that? No harder than life was there, just making it from day to day.

[Cyber Liberty]

ALERT.  ALERT. ALERT
===================

Important read.  I have been seeing many examples of this already.  Supply Chain disruptions have dominoing effects, and I am afraid we have not seen the worst of it.   

The lack of supply of new cars to buy is just the tip of the iceberg

Now they can't be repaired, either.  People have been unable to repair their Powertrain Control Modules since last year.

[corbe]

[libertybele]

Yes, without a doubt, our country is under attack from within...and it's not just coming from the leftists.

[corbe]

   Doesn't China own Controlling Interest in two US west coast ports?

[libertybele]

Do I find this frightening and overwhelming?  Absolutely. Not a dang thing can be done!

[libertybele]

   Doesn't China own Controlling Interest in two US west coast ports?

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/experts-warn-of-chinas-influence-at-us-ports