Dockworkers

25,000 Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports in Historic Antiwar Protest

59:04 minutes (27.04 MB)

From Democracy Now!, May 2, 2008

In the largest labor strike since the invasion of Iraq, ports along the West Coast—all twenty-nine of them—were shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike to protest the war. We speak to Jack Heyman of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.