Clerical Workers At Nation's Largest Port Approach Strike Deadline - 07/20/07

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on July 19, 2007 - 5:43pm
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By Jesse Russell

Clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in contract talks with a midnight Monday deadline. A strike could cripple the ports because the 15,000 member International Longshore Warehouse union won’t cross the clerical workers picket lines.