stevedores

One of the things automation has done is reduce and replace stevedores, the shipping equivalent of stacking shelves.

Two of the other main trades that were involved in the rise of unions are longshoremen and stevedores.

Also the rest of the industry (apart from the stevedores) was quite enthusiastic and didn't need much convincing.

But containerized shipping has replaced stevedores, and other industries have moved as well to their own areas of town.

Try driving through a picket line of stevedores and see what happens to your car.

If the stevedores go on strike, the truck drivers don't go on strike in solidarity.

It reminds me of the working conditions for stevedores in the 19th century.

If you don't have a couple of stevedores in your household, good luck.

Longshoremen and stevedores unions would kill off an automated port in no time.

You can pay to pick up heavy things and put them back down, so we have people paying to be stevedores.

Finally, I think you need to learn a tremendous amount about stevedores and expectations on your container being placed in the correct place everytime.

The stevedores may have had a bad time for a while but our modern society only exists because we can ship things quickly and efficiently.

Stevedores are working, some disreputable louts hanging around." The screen is updating as I'm talking.

What a coincidence that I was just re-watching the second season of "The Wire", which focuses on the white side of Baltimore, albeit the low-privileged stevedores.

Well a large chunk of HN thinks the existing generation of AI is capable of doing 80% of their job, this has not translated at all to robotic stevedores and even less to robotic plumbers so yeah all current evidence supports "Robotics is notably much, much, much harder than AI/ML"

And if I'm being honest, I'm tired of the International Brotherhood of Stevedores[0] style of shredding human productivity to protect some special interest group.