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West Coast Port Closure = Higher Xmas Hardware Prices?

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Was just watching TechTV. They say the West Coast port closure due to strikes will affect hardware prices this Xmas season as most of that stuff comes from Asia. If the strike drags on, people who want to build a PC might want to keep that in consideration. It could also pose a problem to the likes of nVidia who want to release new products this Xmas season.
 
Not looking at it only for hardware being delivered but these morons (ILW union) trying to stronghold higher wages while the country is in a major recession and they should be happy they have jobs let alone asking for more money. They have the potential to pull the economy into a much worse condition and sad to say many here who work in the high tech industry may not have jobs to even afford a new pc period.

I am not anti-union as I employ union workers gladly due to their expertise but in this climate ppl should be tightening the belts and start looking at the companies they work for as families. I would gladly take a pay cut to keep my job if it came down to it. Isnt the most important thing to make sure our companies survive the downturn so we may have futures???

The union of dockworkers is like the ungrateful bastards in my state...the teachers unions...The school year is cut but 9 days or roughly 3 percent of the school year yet they want a 2.5 percent raise over current pay of past longer school year...This at a time when the state has had to cut record amounts from school funding...

I would give them the 2.5percent pay increase after docked their pay for the 3 percent less they will be working....

Sorry end of rant....I just think the dockworkers are being very arrogant at the expense of the US and all of us. Of any of you know how they work and I do you would know they already have some of the best incentives, high pay (versus average workers) and insane working rules in their benefit. I could go on but I wont.

Now the actual end of the rant....

The first one was a paper launch end of rant followed shortly by the actual end...Thank you AMD!!!😉
 
Keeps ATI from ripping people off? It'll encourage higher prices more than anything. With the competition having higher prices due to low supply, ATI will be able to hold back on price cuts since they'll be able to pull down a bit more of the semi-alternativeless market.
 
Originally posted by: SgtZulu
good if it keeps ATI from ripping off people with their $400 video cards i'm all for it
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you forgot nvidia has well number nuts
 
Originally posted by: SgtZulu
good if it keeps ATI from ripping off people with their $400 video cards i'm all for it
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Ever since the Voodoo5 6000, the 3D "crown-holder" has always commanded an MSRP of $400-$500. It's not something ATi invented. Besides, R9700 can be had for less than $350, and the R9500 should be out later this month. Then you'll be able to get a DX9 card that compares to the GF4 Ti4400 with FSAA enabled for $150-$250.
 
Does this strike effect all of the west coast or only in the USA? If it's only in the USA then companies will probably ship to Canada & Mexico & truck them into the US. Either way prices will go up I suppose 😛

Cheers,
Aquaman
 
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Does this strike effect all of the west coast or only in the USA? If it's only in the USA then companies will probably ship to Canada & Mexico & truck them into the US. Either way prices will go up I suppose 😛

Cheers,
Aquaman
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Yes, some (that are smart) are re-routing through Canada and Mexico. It's US only...
 
Let's hope all the ports stay closed and these selfish dock workers starve.

There are other ways to ship goods into the USA.
 
Yeah but us in Hawaii will suffer even more. All our ports (only two I believe are) are controlled by the ILWU (I believe). Or Governor (poster child for never vote for anyone like me or I?ll f**k up the economy, educational system etc?) has asked for the Hawaii ILWU workers for no work stoppages. Yeah like that will really help, they all hate him.

From what I understand from talking to a few ILWU workers is that the shipping companies wanted to eliminate about 100 jobs (not sure which ports) and wanted to replace them with about 25% of nonunion workers. This is of course for the new legislation that will require these huge shipping companies to inspect each and every container. The companies wanted to higher people for these special positions and wanted them to be nonunion.

That?s what I understand from the workers I?ve talked to. So Hawaii can expect an even longer wait for new hardware for x-mas.
 
Heh, yeah but then the air traffic controllers will strike.... OH WAIT!!! sound familiar 😉

Prez Dubya needs to fire the strikers.... our economy is too fragile at this point...
 
I lost my job after 20 years in IT this spring (I wasn't in a union) It took me three months to find a new job, and I am lucky, my brother in law got laid off at the same time and is still unemployed, and my brother is going to lose his job in IT (was at Willamette) due to corporate buyout from Weyhauser (spelling??) They need to shut up, and go back to work, or get fired like every other hard working person I know of.
 
Yea, starve the union dockworkers cause nobody else would get hurt. :disgust:


To bad so many other people in so many other areas of the country are affected by this stupidity. It should be sent to arbitration (sp) while they continue to work. Yea the timing is real bad too. I wonder if they would go on strike during a war and refuse to deal with military equipment untill they got a raise too!


 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
hmm i once heard of an idea, but not sure if it ever made it




ITS CALLED PLANES
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ITS CALLED MORE EXPENSIVE

The difference in per pound costs of operating a 747 over a container ship is tremendous. Why do you think ships are still around? If it wasnt cost effective, it wouldnt be here.

-PAB
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
hmm i once heard of an idea, but not sure if it ever made it




ITS CALLED PLANES
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Planes won't work. We are talking about ton, and tons, and tons of cargo! Stuff that you can't fit into any plane (well maybe a C5 cargo plane), but the cost is not feasible by any stretch. That?s why when dockworkers strike/walkout we the consumers/businesses all pay a price, because it is that important for the docks to be in operation.

I have a feeling ILWU will lose this one though. Not because I want them too, I really don't care, but because I think they reason is not worth it in the eyes of the public.
 
To really clarify this...The union workers are not on a strike exactly...they are being locked out of the ports by the PMA or Pacific Maritime Assoc. due to deliberate and callous attempts by the dockworkers to slowdown and sabotage unloading vessels..the sabotage is being reported by many reports in Portland. The slowdown was deliberately hurting the import and export of goods for weeks now. The PMA basically put their foot down. They came to the bargaining meeting with armed guards cause they truly believe the ILWU workers are the thugs I believe and know they are. Heck they are basically one generation from the mob controlled industry they once were.

The columbia river looks like a parking lot and business reports put this as a catastrophe for retailers who need xmas items on shelves by mid to late October. These bas-tards will push this economy even further south...
 
Not to worry! Pracically all computer components that enter the U. S. A. from Asia arrive by air. The need to get the stuff to market before it's obsolete outweighs the added cost. 747 freighters come through the airport here in Fairbanks, Alaska over the pole in sufficient numbers to make this the # 10 airport in airfreight shipments in the world and they do many times the business in Anchorage, Ak. that we do here to make them #1 or #2. It's like an aluminum overcast all day. I can look out the door of my shop at any time and see Air France, Cargolux, Lufthansa, China, or Evergreen. A month or so ago when there was bad weather in Anchorage there were 24 Boeing 747's, Douglas DC-10's, and assorted other Jumbo freighters on the ground here at the same time to refuel and that was just part of one days traffic.
 
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