Clerical workers at several terminals at the country’s busiest port complex went on strike after their contract expired early Thursday without a new labor agreement, a union spokesman said.
“We are now on strike,” said John Fageaux Jr., president of Local 63 of the 900 member Office Clerical Unit of the International Longshore Warehouse Union. “We tried very hard to get the employers to the table; they refused to do so.”
“We’re not opposed to technology that will create more efficient processes, but we do not agree if it allows others to do our work,” Fageaux said.