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freight movers, the ports of los angeles, the port of los angeles announced today that it s going to begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. this follows the port of long beach s commitment to 24/7 that it announced just weeks ago. 24/7 system, what most of the leading countries in the world already operate on now, except us, until now. this is the first key step toward moving our entire freight, transportation and logistical supply chain nationwide to a 24/7 system. and here s why it matters. traditionally our ports have only been open during the week, monday through friday, and they re generally closed down at nights and on weekends. by staying open seven days a week through the night and on the weekends, the port of los angeles will open over 60 extra hours a week will be open. in total, that will almost double the number of hours that the port is open for business from earlier this year. that means an increase in the hours for workers to be moving cargo off shi
ThingsAnnouncementShelfExecutive-directorPorts-cardonaPresidentWillie-adamsUnionMarioInternational-longshoremanWorldSportsGot this big pent up demand for goods and services, workers say to themselves, well, we don t necessarily have to return to work right away, but we ve socked away a little bit of money. it s not these federal unemployment payments because those payments stopped in labor day but a lot of workers now feel that they have a little bit of luxury to wait and see, reevaluate, if they don t have to return to the same lousy jobs they had before, and you have this all over the country. in fact, to some extent it is related to more strike activity and the organized union sector of the economy. now, you tweeted this, ending the expanded unemployment benefits didn t get people back to work but living wages, paid leave, child care, good health care and the right to join a union would. some of that would be handled by the social safety net bill that the president talked about and we ll talk about that in a moment, but on the issue of wages, what do you tell the o
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