Someone Else’s Ocean: Dockworkers, Foreign Shippers and Economic Outcomes
June 29, 2022 / By Daniel Flaming and Patrick Burns / International Longshore & Warehouse Union Coast Longshore Division
Ports and the Economy
Ports should be two-way gates – goods enter and they leave. But in the San Pedro Bay, foreign shippers kicked the gate until it broke – goods are coming in but not going out, harming the environment in port cities, eliminating jobs of California residents and causing long-term harm to local economies and businesses.
