From Sunday’s Los Angeles Times:
Labor contract negotiations are set to resume today in the now six-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Talks had continued past 9 p.m. Saturday night.
The strike, by the 800-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 Office Clerical Unit, has shut down 10 of the 14 cargo container terminals at the nation’s busiest seaport complex. The labor fight pits the union against a group of shipping lines and cargo terminal operators calling themselves the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Employers Assn.
The union, which handles the vast amount of paperwork associated with the ports’ container cargo, has been working without a contract since June 30, 2010.
Nine cargo container ships were anchored offshore Sunday. Three more container ships are due to arrive Sunday and 11 more container ships are scheduled to arrive on Monday.