What's going on at the ports?
It’s not immediately clear how long work stoppages at the ports will continue.
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It’s not immediately clear how long work stoppages at the ports will continue.
Patience wearing thin as shippers once again incur substantial losses.
U.S. ag exporters are suffering painful losses after a union stopped work at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach amid protracted contract negotiations, according to the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.
Amid growing anxiety among the financial elite, another important aspect of this letter must be stressed: The financial oligarchy’s fear that control over this contract negotiation may spill out of the hands of the pro-corporate ILWU.
The Ocean Shipping Antitrust Enforcement Act would repeal the exemption for foreign ocean carriers from all federal antitrust laws.