Clerical workers who have been without a contract for 17 months hit the picket line this afternoon at several terminals spread across the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Around noon, office clerks began staging an “informational picket” at the China Shipping, NYK and and Evergreen shipping terminals at the Port of Los Angeles, said port spokesman Phillip Sanfield.

Those terminals are shutting down for the rest of the day and truck traffic was being diverted, Sanfield said.

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