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our guest is christina mcdaniel who is a current research fellow at the mercatus center.shoreman does, and why they are striking at this point -- at this point? guest: so, one thing that i think your listeners might find interesting is why are these guys called longshoreman and i want to say guys and it is men and women. 85 to 90% are men. the term comes from back in a long time ago, these guys would line up along the shore, so along the shore. when there is work then the ports would hire them. as on and on -- on a as needed basis. what they do, today what they do is they are responsible for largely getting the containers off of the ships and putting them in the right place. sometimes they have to stay there for a particular time and sometimes they are ready to go and they get it to the right place. sometimes it is to the rails or to the trucks. but these longshoreman deal with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these containers a day, so it can get very complicated and very quickly. host: why are they striking? guest: they want more money. they see that the counterpar

our guest is christina mcdaniel who is a current research fellow at the mercatus center. what a longshoreman does, and why they are striking at this point -- at this point? guest: so, one thing that i think your listeners might find interesting is why are these guys called longshoreman and i want to say guys and it is men and women. 85 to 90% are men. the term comes from back in a long time ago, these guys would line up along the shore, so along the shore. when there is work then the ports would hire them. as on and on -- on a as needed basis. what they do, today what they do is they are responsible for largely getting the containers off of the ships and putting them in the right place. sometimes they have to stay there for a particular time and sometimes they are ready to go and they get it to the right place. sometimes it is to the rails or to the trucks. but these longshoreman deal with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these containers a day, so it can get very complicated and very quickly. host: why are they striking? guest: they want more money. they see that th