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Longshoreman’s Death in Benicia Shuts Down Port of Oakland

Dozens of independent truckers were turned away from the Port of Oakland Thursday as union workers stayed off the job to mark the death of a Benicia longshoreman. Thomas Hoover, 56, reporredly...

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Shipping Resumes at Port of Oakland; Labor Dispute Continues

The Port of Oakland reopened Tuesday after being idle for most of the last week. Employers have been shutting down operations in response to what they call intentional worker slowdowns, which the...

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Update: Ports, Dockworkers Reach a Deal

Update, Friday 7 p.m. Longshoremen at the Port of Oakland should be back at work tomorrow, clearing a massive backlog of cargo. That’s after their union and their employers reached a deal tonight …...

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Oakland City Council Moves to Block Coal at New Port Terminal

City officials may be able to block the export of coal and other fossil fuels from a new shipping terminal being built on the old Oakland Army Base — if they find those exports seriously threaten the...

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Small Team of Divers Helps Keep Port of Oakland Running Smoothly

In 2015, more than 2 million cargo containers moved through the Port of Oakland. After those containers are offloaded from cargo ships, they are stacked onto large decks until they can be loaded onto...

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Labor Dispute Shuts Down Port of Oakland’s Largest Terminal

Thirty unionized dockworkers at the Port of Oakland were fired this morning for showing up for work 15 minutes after their employer asked them to arrive, a dispute that resulted in the suspension of...

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West Coast Dockworkers and Shippers Set to Discuss Contract Extension

Talks start Tuesday to extend the labor peace that ended a major dispute between tens of thousands of West Coast dockworkers and their shipping company employers. The International Longshore and...

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Port of Oakland Protest Update

Truck driver J.R. Coleman (left, holding sign) talks with Michael Villeggiante, president of Local 10 of the longshoremen’s union. (Deborah Svoboda / KQED) Update 2:30 p.m.  From the Port of Oakland...

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News Pix: A Stunning Lightning Display, the New Eastern Span, Truckers Block...

Lightning was spotted across the Bay Area on Aug. 19 in an unusual summer thunderstorm. Above, a view of lightning strikes beyond San Bruno Mountain from Potrero Hill in San Francisco. (Steve...

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Truckers Stage New Protest at Port of Oakland

Herbert Olivares (left) and Mohammed Sam are among a group of independent truckers who tried to shut down the Port Of Oakland on Monday over low pay and long waits. (Cy Musiker/KQED News). Independent...

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Port of Oakland Truckers Threaten New Work Stoppage

Independent truck drivers during an August protest at the Port of Oakland. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) Several hundred independent truckers at the Port of Oakland are serving notice that they’ll stop work...

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Port of Oakland Truckers Stage Yet Another Work Stoppage

(Dan Brekke/KQED) For the third time since August, independent truckers at the Port of Oakland are staging a work stoppage to protest working conditions and the cost of retrofitting their vehicles to...

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Air Pollution Controversy Swirls Around Oakland Army Base Development

Jahvonn Mair was only 4 when he was diagnosed last year with asthma. He’s still so tiny that his inhaler apparatus is half as big as his head, and his twice-daily doses have slipped into his everyday...

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Oakland Port Concerned After Protests Block Cargo Ship

The Port of Oakland (Mark Hogan/Flickr) Port of Oakland officials are concerned that recent protest activity could be bad for future business. This week pro-Palestinian activists blocked a cargo ship...

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Open Letter to the Community of Oakland from the Port of Oakland Regarding...

Occupy Oakland is calling for a “blockade” of the Port of Oakland tomorrow as part of its call for a general strike. The Port of Oakland just sent this out in response: Open Letter to the Community of...

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Jean Quan “Corrects the Public Record” on Keeping Port Open

Jean Quan (Brendan Sallow/Getty) The Port of Oakland, you may recall, was shut down in November during the Occupy Oakland general strike, and also briefly a couple of weeks ago during another protest....

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Video, Photos: Largest Container Ship to Ever Call on North American Port...

What does roughly 322,000,000 pounds floating on water look like? Here, watch as it eclipses a view of Alcatraz… That’s the “largest container ship ever to call any seaport in North America,” according...

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Time Lapse Video of Huge Container Ship Making Turn at Port of Oakland

Yesterday we were all agog over the MSC Fabiola, the largest container ship ever to dock in a North American port, paying a call to the Port of Oakland. From the Port of Oakland, watch this time-lapse...

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A.M. Splash: Stanford Economist Wins Nobel; Chevron Workers Warned of Pipe...

Guest Stanford prof wins economic Nobel (SF Chronicle) A visiting Stanford University professor was awarded the Nobel economics prize Monday for research that helped improve the performance of...

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A.M. Splash: Oracle Boat Recovered; Santa Rosa Cyclist Describes Doping;...

Towering America’s Cup boat recovered (SF Chronicle) The massive, state-of-the art Oracle Team USA catamaran racing sailboat that flipped and was dragged out the Golden Gate was brought ashore early...

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A.M. Splash: Port of Oakland Director Resigns; McAfee Company Founder Linked...

Port of Oakland director retires (SF Chronicle) The Port of Oakland’s executive director retired Monday as he was becoming increasingly embroiled in a scandal in which $4,500 in public funds were used...

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Live Video: Strikers Stop Traffic at Oakland Port

Strikers blocked traffic at the Port of Oakland Tuesday morning, but did not disrupt operations at Oakland International Airport, officials said. “In the maritime area, we are seeing disruptions and...

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Port of Oakland Operations Halted as Worker Death Investigated

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) members have shut down the Port of Oakland because of a death on the job. The union is “standing down” to show solidarity with Joy Daniels, who died...

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