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Dockworkers Strike Against Iraq War

West Coast ports idle for May Day in run-up to union contract talks

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted May 1, 2008 4:25 PM CDT

(Newser) – In an action their union says is a protest against the war in Iraq, dockworkers from Washington to Southern California have taken May Day off, crippling West Coast port traffic, the Los Angeles Times reports. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose contract is up...   Read full story »

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