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Shipping lines and dockworkers reach deal, port shutdown averted
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-port-deal-reached-20150221-story.h...
Container ships wait offshore to get into the Port of Long Beach on Feb. 11. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
By ANDREW KHOURI, CHRIS KIRKHAM AND PETER JAMISONcontact the reporters

Making Everything Shipshape As Panama Canal Expands, West Coast Ports Scramble to Keep Big Cargo Vessels "Craig Merrilees, a spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said that contract talks were positive and on track"

Making Everything Shipshape
As Panama Canal Expands, West Coast Ports Scramble to Keep Big Cargo Vessels

By DIONNE SEARCEYJUNE 27, 2014

Impasse between union, employers could shut down some major U.S. ports in Oct.

By Steven Mufson, Friday, August 31, 5:10 PM