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Seventh Day of Strike at the Ports of LA and Long Beach
Alex Chadwick sits in for Warren Olney with "WWLA?" on KCRW to talk about the port strike in Southern California, now a week old with no reports of progress in talks. What’s at stake? Warren be on with the To The Point part of the show a little later – he’s talking about a series of same sex marriage legal challenges before the Supreme Court, which appear in no hurry to hear any of them.
By Warren Olney • • 49m ListenAlex Chadwick sits in for Warren Olney with "WWLA?" on KCRW to talk about the port strike in Southern California, now a week old with no reports of progress in talks. What’s at stake? Warren be on with the To The Point part of the show a little later – he’s talking about a series of same sex marriage legal challenges before the Supreme Court, which appear in no hurry to hear any of them.
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3 storiesSeventh Day of Strike at the Ports of LA and Long Beach
Several hundred clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – without a contract for two-and-a-half years – began a strike last week. Other longshoremen honored the picket lines, and on the front page of today’s LA Times, you can see the result – a large photo of idle cranes and very large ships at anchor beyond them.
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