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Dockworkers Shut Down Ports in Antiwar Protest

HeadlineMay 02, 2008

May Day also saw a major antiwar action at the nation’s ports. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union says more than 25,000 dockworkers stayed off the job Thursday in protest of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty-nine West Coast ports were affected. The action came despite an arbitration ruling ordering the dockworkers to report to work.

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