— “We have 73,000 people whose jobs rely on the Port of Oakland,” Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf said.
- San Jose Mercury News: Labor secretary: Fix West Coast port crisis or negotiate in White House’s shadow
— Deadlocked West Coast dockworkers and a group representing the firms that run the ports have been told by Labor Secretary Tom Perez to reach an accord or he will bring them back to Washington, D.C., next week.
- Los Angeles Times: Port talks deadlocked over fate of arbitrator
— California political leaders voiced growing exasperation Thursday with a labor standoff that has clogged West Coast ports, as word spread that the main sticking point in negotiations has been the fate of a single, low-level official who rules on disputes involving Los Angeles and Long Beach dockworkers.
- San Francisco Chronicle: Longshore workers take a day off, shut down Oakland port operations
— The Port of Oakland shut down Thursday with 12 cargo vessels stuck at the docks with no one to load or unload them after longshore workers took the day off for a union meeting.
- UT San Diego: Dispute sends more traffic to port of San Diego
— A labor dispute that has snarled traffic at ports up and down the West Coast could also give rise to new opportunities for the Port of San Diego.
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