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Day: November 1, 2011

Judge fines Longshore union another $65,000

U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton said in a decision released Tuesday that the union violated an injunction in the mobilization on September 21. He had previously fined the International Longshore and Warehouse Union for...

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Explosive container danger halts Port of Oakland

Oct. 31: The longshoremen are refusing to move any containers at certain terminals because they say refrigerated containers that were improperly serviced in Vietnam have already exploded in Vietnam, China, and Brazil. Some of...

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Alarm sounded over exploding reefers

Hundreds of refrigerated containers have been quarantined in various locations around the world following reports of compressor explosions and incidents of spontaneous combustion that have resulted in at least three fatalities....

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