US ports longshoremen’s strike (East and Gulf coasts)

Just drove past the picket line on Tchoupitoulas St on the way to work - all the picket signs say "FIGHT AUTOMATION! SAVE JOBS!'

I assumed the automation piece was just a bargaining chip for higher wages but maybe not. Seems like bad strategy to me - I think they can sell the public on higher wages to make up for inflation or even COVID hazard pay. But the automation fight seems a lot harder to win.
Perfect being the enemy of the good
I doubt there’s ever been a protest anywhere that the general public thought ‘yup, that’s the exact correct approach’
The nature of protest indicates there is a (near) intractable position that another group is trying to dislodge
The ones who created the intractable situation want the focus to be on the method of dislodging vs the process that got us here in the first place

Every successful protest has had heaps of people saying why it shouldn’t/wouldn’t work

(Which is not an argument that all protests are justifiable, just that most arguments against methods of protest are usually just distraction)