Today in 2002 A massive labor dispute led management to lock out 10,500 dockworkers across 29 West Coast ports. The shutdown lasted 10 days until federal intervention occurred under the Taft-Hartley Act.
• Port employers ask NLRB to force dockworkers to bargain • 2nd Apple Store union secures contract • How humanoid robots will disrupt global labor • National Symphony Orchestra strikes the Kennedy Center • Amazon warehouse workers continue to make history • 7 corporations doing the most to undermine democracy worldwide • Charted: How American tech workers feel about joining a union • Kroger/Albertsons merger threatens to intensify price gouging • Boeing union members angry they lost their traditional pension plan • Teamster locals, defying ‘neutrality’ of national leadership, endorse Harris
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