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The Anderson Economic Group estimated that the U.S. economy would lose $2.1 billion from a one-week strike, $1.5 billion due to the loss in value or degradation of items such as perishable goods, $400 million for transportation company losses, and $200 million in lost wages for the
ILWU headquarters in San Francisco. The ILWU admitted African Americans in the 1930s, and during World War II its San Francisco section alone had an estimated 800 black members, at a time when most San Francisco unions excluded black workers and resisted implementation of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 (1941) against racial discrimination in the US defense industry. [8]
California port operations could be affected if the striking longshore workers union in the East set up pickets here, as it did in San Francisco during the strike in 1977.
On November 27, 2012, about 70 clerical workers at the Port of Los Angeles, [10] all OCU members, went on strike. [5] The union members worked for APM Terminals, a company that operates Pier 400 at the port. [5] Longshoremen at the pier, also members of the ILWU, honored the strike action and as a result, the port was shut down. [5]
A looming strike also puts President Biden and his chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, in a political bind: If they invoke the anti-union statute forcing workers back on the job, they ...
The 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on strike Tuesday for the first time in nearly 50 years after not being able to come to an agreement with the United ...
A dockworker shortage at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ended Friday night after halting cargo traffic at the complex.
1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike; 1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike; 1936 Pacific Coast maritime workers' strike; 1971 ILWU strike; 1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike; 1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike; 2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike; 2019 Alaska ferry workers' strike; 2024 United States port strike