What’s Causing The Global Supply Chain Disruption?

Professor of International Politics Laleh Khalili addresses the global supply chain disruption and what needs to be done in order to have a resilient one. Khalili discusses the effect lockdown had in 2020 that resulted in many misplaced empty containers, China’s shutdown, and the limited amount of ports in the United States. The Majority Report crew discusses how important it is to have properly employed truck drivers as opposed to gig workers.

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Sam Seder: Let's turn to what's going on in this country and I presume in other countries around the world to some degree and maybe it's not necessarily the same dynamic, but we're hearing stories there are many stories they're full-on reports of how backed up we are at our ports in terms of ships in the sea. It seems to be a function of or at least one element of it is the nature of the truckers who are tasked with picking stuff up at a port and the way that they're paid or I should say not paid. There's- Can you tell us what's going on with our supply lines relative to what's happening with the ships?

Laleh Khalili: So I think that there are actually multiple things going on that is that is causing the sort of the global supply chain backup. So, first when we came out of the first lockdown there were a lot of containers out of place if you will which meant that there was actually a shortage of containers in place...