you talked about wage gain in the private sector 5.7. if you look at 80% of the work force, blue color and manufacturing, middle and lower wage workers, their pay went up 6.9%. sandra: that s not keeping pace with inflation. the point is that we have to keep the wage pressures going while we do everything at the ports, ship to shelf, make sure that the trucking sector is getting goods from warehouses, warehousing and transportation, strong sandra: i don t hear gas prices. right now you re looking at an eight-year high for the price of oil. topping $90 this week. you re looking at prices at the bump up more than $1 from a year ago at a seven-year high. i talked to brian dietz in the 2:00 hour. he s advising the president. i didn t hear anything new about what we re doing to bring those gas prices down. what is the plan? so the plan is to make sure
benefitting the trucking workforce outside of the infrastructure bill and in build back better. absolutely. i ll just give you one example. we had a round table as you mentioned today where secretary walsh and i were meeting with leaders from labor and business in the trucking sector. one of the most interesting presentations was by an organization called women in trucking. and the number of women in trucking has grown to about 10%. but obviously, that s a long way short of 50%. and if we re leaving 50% of the country on the table when it comes to recruiting people into a profession where we clearly need more people, not that you have to be a woman to benefit from the child care provisions in build back better. but there is no question it s going to lead to more women returning to the workforce, which is one of many, many reasons why it s not just good for families, it s good for the economy. i want to go to one point in your plan released today that addresses what i was talking ab
logjam? national correspondent william la jeunesse reports from the california coast. with all due respect to president biden, too little, too late. the supply chain crisis running hard against the calendar. only 73 days left to fix it, whether the ports are open 24 hours a day or 48 hours a day, you cannot get labor. critics blame the biden administration policy of paying people not to work, the labor department says there are 537,000 jobs openings in the trucking sector. this is not flipping a light switch as you well know. it s a series of individual, discrete problem-solving actions that lower the barriers to 24/7 operations. several miles of the california coast, what you are looking at is the largest parking lot in the pacific. a million containers from
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detroit. look at steel. they saved a few jobs in the steel industry. they offed opportunities for people buying steel companies to make a lot of money out of bankrupt steel companies that then did better. but what they cost was hundreds of us thats of auto jobs, automobile jobs. actually, the very tariffs that we thought would help manufacturing jobs in the steel industry hurt jobs in those industries which were larger and much more broad based that consumed the steel, in auto sectorer and the trucking sector. this is important the look at, the trade-off that you are getting by protecting. it is a tax. an aggressive tax where consumers who earn less are hit harder. it s also a tax that is at the expense of other jobs, more jobs than it saves. at the end of the day even though there are legitimate reasons to deal with the disputes we have there is a better way to deal with them. there is also a different traitoff. i mentioned this with the cap. the chinese cap in theory is