Before the holiday season, workers at America's busiest ports are fighting the robots
As the shipping industry pushes for more automation at West Coast ports, the powerful union representing dockworkers is fighting back, saying robots will only kill good American jobs.
It's a never-ending line of massive ships stacked high with colorful containers that come and go from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach these days.
This busy scene is not unexpected as the volume of goods coming across the Pacific Ocean has hit new records during the pandemic.
The shipping industry says it must automate more of the work loading and unloading ships to keep up.
One big goal is to avoid a repeat of last year's supply chain woes as the holidays were nearing. It was a nightmare scene in full display — ships laden with goods bobbing off the coast of Southern California because there were no empty berths and no space on the docks to put any more
