Excerpts from American Shipper:
Craig Merrilees, a spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, told American Shipper 22 longshoremen at the Oakland International Container Terminal (OICT) were dismissed by SSA Marine after they arrived for work at the regular starting time stipulated in their contract instead of earlier as the company wanted. An additional 44 dockworkers at OICT also refused to work in solidarity with the 22 employees that were sent home.
Merrilees said an arbitrator ruled later in the day that the 22 workers were improperly dismissed and would be made whole, but that the other 44 employees had acted improperly by also refusing to work.