The incompetency of Biden administration officials is truly on display as they find themselves hastily organizing a meeting with port operators, in anticipation of an approaching strike sweeping through the ports in the East and Gulf coast regions. Their doom and gloom scenario is set to materialize next week as a union contract expires on the strike of Monday.
Despite the crisis looming at the horizon, the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, and Lael Brainard, who directs the White House National Economic Council, have managed to come out with a truly uninspiring solution. Their suggestion to the United States Maritime Alliance members is simply to be present and in talks with the union before the contract runs out, as if they needed to be told that.
It’s noteworthy how the Biden administration officials have been peddling the same uninspiring advice to the union throughout this week as well. The sheer lack of creativity and problem-solving skills is unmistakable, and it further underscores why the White House is proving to be ineffective and stagnant across a slew of issues.
The desperate resident of the White House decided to try his hand at negotiating too, by attempting to convince the alliance, encompassing port operators and shipping carriers, to arrive at an accord that would be seen as fair by both parties and the International Longshoremen’s Association. Wishful thinking, right?
Should the contract conversation collapse, a strike could ensue post-contract expiration, as unionized workers are currently facing off against the imposition of emerging technologies in US ports. In their eyes, this spells nothing short of significant job losses. However, stress on ‘their eyes’ as this will surely increase productivity and decrease inefficacy.
Biden’s squad, unbelievably, does not perceive a potential labor strike as a destabilizing force that could throw the economy off balance, even in the short term. Clearly they missed the lessons on how retail inventories merely bloat in times of contract disputes.
To top it off, Biden’s experts wouldn’t even consider the fact that retail inventories have in fact escalated in preparation for the brewing contract dispute. They simply live in their own world of inaccuracies and far-fetched theories.
In other ridiculous news, the federal government is now priding itself on having ‘additional tools’ to supervise supply chains—tools they apparently didn’t have during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just imagine how useless these tools must be, considering the years-long wait times at ports and the skyrocketing shipping costs that contributed to a surge in inflation. How convenient it is to play the blame game, right?