Over 100,000 American workers are reportedly threatening to strike this week amid the supply chain crisis, citing “low staffing levels” and “burnout.”
The American workers who are threatening to strike work for Hollywood production companies, John Deere, and Kaiser Permanente, the Hill reported.
The threats to strike would add to the thousands more who have already been on strike, “including 2,000 New York hospital workers, 700 Massachusetts nurses and 1,400 Kellogg plant workers in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.”
President of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals Jodi Barschow told the Hill that Kaiser nurses are ready to strike over “pandemic-induced burnout exacerbated by low staffing levels.”
Kaiser’s proposals “show a profound disrespect for the frontline healthcare workers who are risking their lives during COVID,” Barschow remarked, noting any strike would “severely disrupt” the healthcare supply chain.
Kaiser’s senior vice president of human resources, Arlene Peasnall, responded to the threats by asking employees to tend to patients. “We ask that our employees reject a call to walk away from the patients who need them,” Peasnall said. “Our priority is to continue to provide our members with high-quality, safe care.”
John Deere is also experiences an employee mutiny over “cuts for new hires.” A strike for John Deere could mean 10,000 employees may not show up for work on Thursday and would be the first strike for John Deere in 30 years, the Hill reported.
Hollywood is also reportedly facing about 60,000 employees who are threatening to strike “after their union failed to secure a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents Hollywood and streaming giants such as The Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. and Netflix.”
Apparently the film employees are frustrated with limited time for “meal breaks and sleep,” along with low wages. The Hill notes that if the strike is carried out, it would be “the largest walkouts in recent history.”
The threats of strikes come as state and federal coronavirus unemployment money has exasperated the employment market. The Biden-Harris administration admitted so on Tuesday to the New York Times. “Administration officials acknowledged on Tuesday in a call with reporters that the $1.9 trillion economic aid package President Biden signed into law in March had contributed to supply chain issues,” the New York paper wrote.
Labor shortages are not just impacting Hollywood production companies, John Deere, and Kaiser Permanente. The trucking industry is also facing labor shortages, which is contributing to the supply chain crisis at U.S. ports, where large amounts of containers are clogging up new freight deliveries.
CEO of Freight Right Global Logistics Robert Khachatryan exclusively told Breitbart News on Tuesday 62 ships were unable to unload their containers at California ports this week, delaying inventories for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The shipping congestion is so great that large companies such as Home Depot are chartering their own private vessels to drop freight at smaller ports. But with truckers in low supply to remove the containers from the ports, trucking companies are having a hard time retaining employees.
Old Dominion Freight Line will reportedly hire any driver with or without experience, KHQ NBC reported Sunday. Old Dominion held a job fair Saturday to “hire 10 line drivers who can haul several trailers across the state” while offering to train anyone who wishes to earn a truckers license.
As a result, the supply chain crisis due to a labor shortage, which may be exasperated by new strikes, is raising prices. In August, for example, inflation increased 5.3 percent compared to 2020. A Moody’s economist Mark Zandi told the New York Post Friday that inflation is costing American consumers an extra $175 a month.
The extra costs to consumers are reportedly going to be sustained until 2023, Coresight Research Founder and CEO Deborah Weinswig told Yahoo Finance Live on Tuesday.
“Let’s look at the math: It’s 14 days to get a container from APAC to the U.S. and 40 days for it to get back,” Weinswig explained. “And we have a complete container misalignment right now. So that’s 80 days, we’re talking, in our opinion — we’re probably looking at Q1 2023 before all of those containers get back and realign.”
Father whose daughter was ‘raped’ in girls’ bathroom by ‘skirt-wearing’ male student slams AG Merrick Garland for threatening parents who protest school boards after he was dragged out of Loudoun County for trying to say staff ignored incident
The Virginia father who was arrested at a school board meeting while protesting its proposed transgender policies after claiming his daughter was raped in a girls’ bathroom by ‘skirt-wearing’ male student has slammed Merrick Garland for threatening parents who protest school boards.
Scott Smith, 48, appeared on Fox News‘ The Ingraham Angle and spoke out after he was photographed being dragged out of a school board in Leesburg, Virginia meeting this June and was painted by the left to be a deranged, right-wing bigot.
Smith told host Laura Ingraham that his daughter was sexually attacked at Stone Bridge High School on May 28 by a boy ‘wearing in a skirt’ who took advantage of the school’s trans policies to get into the girls’ bathrooms and assault her.
And he slammed Attorney General Merrick Garland for clamping down on protests at board meetings.
The Justice Department announced last week that the FBI would now investigate and prosecute any parent who it deems to be ‘threatening’ towards school staff.
The order from Garland was in response to a request from the National School Board Association to President Biden, asking him to protect them from angry parents.
Garland said: ‘Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values. Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.’
Smith told Ingraham: ‘That’s really scary that our government will weaponize themselves against parents and using my video across the nation to spread fear.
‘That’s wrong. I am not a bully. I am not a racist. I love everyone. I love this country. I want better stuff for it.’
Smith told host Laura Ingraham that he was trying to stick up for his daughter when he was dragged from the meeting, and says his family was confronted by activists at the meeting when he spoke out against the trans policies.
‘I am good with gay people and cross-gender people – Anybody who wants to be a good American, I am good with – I went there to find out why our children were not safe,’ he said.
‘The next thing I know, another parent-activist approached my wife and starting antagonizing her, and I turned around and said stop.’
He said he tried to explain what happened to his daughter but the woman would not listen.
‘She looked me dead in the face and said ”that’s not what happened” – That struck me – how do you know what happened, you don’t even know me.’ he told Ingraham.
He said next thing he knew he was tackled by an officer and although he supports the police, he thinks things could have been dealt with better.
‘This didn’t have to happen. This could have been handled a lot differently,’ he said.
At the meeting on June 22, Loudoun County School Superintendent Scott Ziegler said the school had never had any form of incident inside a bathroom or locker room involving a transgender child.
‘To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,’ he said first.
He went on to quote Time magazine research that he said disproved the notion transgender kids might sexually attack cisgender kids, and said: ‘I think it’s important to keep our perspective on this, we’ve heard it several times tonight from our public speakers but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.’
Two months after the incident, the boy – who has not been named because he is a juvenile – was arrested for forced sodomy.
And in October, he was arrested again on different charges for allegedly assaulting a different girl, at a different school. He is now in a juvenile detention center.
Smith told Ingraham that after he found out about the arrest he decided it was time to speak out.
‘Within half an hour, it was confirmed that yes, this did happen. I basically said that’s it. I won’t stay quiet anymore,’ he said.
Smith was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest following the June incident.
His family then retreated from the public eye but were working with Lancaster to resolve the criminal case against the boy who assaulted their daughter, they say.
They were preparing for an October 14 court date, they say, but were stunned when the same boy was arrested again on October 6, at a different school in the same district.
On this occasion, he was charged with ‘with sexual battery and abduction’. In that case, he allegedly held a different girl in a classroom to attack her in Broad Run High School – 2.5miles from the high school where Smith’s daughter was assaulted.
Smith’s attorney says prosecutors told her it was the same child as was involved in the case with Smith’s daughter.
‘If someone would have sat and listened for thirty seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken,’ his attorney added.
He said he does not know if the boy identifies as female, is bisexual, or was taking advantage of the system.
‘I don’t care if he’s homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, transsexual. He’s a sexual predator,’ he said.
Because the case involves two juveniles, there are few publicly available records and Loudoun County will not comment or give out any information.
It remains unclear why the boy in question was in the different school, where the second assault allegedly took place on October 6, when he had apparently been in talks with prosecutors to agree to a deal for the May 28 assault against Smith’s daughter.
Loudoun County won’t say whether or not he was ever suspended or excluded from the school system.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office did confirm the October 6 incident, saying in a press release on October 7: ‘A teenager from Ashburn has been charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School.
‘The investigation determined on the afternoon of October 6, the 15-year-old suspect forced the victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her.’