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| Shocking photos show supply chain slowdown in real time as line of freighters carrying coffee, wine and electronics wait outside Port of Oakland due to trucker strike - which is entering its SECOND week |
| 2022-07-25 |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Independent truck drivers have been blocking road access to the Port of Oakland since last week, preventing ships from unloading at the major shipping hub
- Truckers have been protesting California's Assembly Bill 5, a law requiring certain industries to classify contractors as regular benefitted employees
- Photos of the port showed rows of stacked shipping containers with nowhere to go and an armada of fully loaded freighters queued up, unable to unload
- Truckers threaten to make strike 'indefinite'
- Hundreds of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) members declined to cross blockade
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| Posted by:Skidmark |