About 22,000 dockworkers at 29 ports along the West Coast could strike if a new contract agreement can’t be reached between their employers and the union who represents them, The New York Times reports.
The contract for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union expires June 30. If it can’t be renewed before then, a resulting labor impasse could lead to shortages and send prices for consumer goods even higher, the article explains.
“There’s too much at stake for both sides,” Mario Cordero, executive director of the Port of Long Beach, told the paper. “There’s an incentive because the nation is watching.”
Read more at The New York Times.