25,000 Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports in Historic Antiwar Protest
All 29 West Coast ports shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike against the war in Iraq
Democracy Now May 02, 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.