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Understanding how stowaway organisms travel the high seas

2013-05-06 15:04:00

Ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach are key to the global economy: crossroads where billions of dollars in cargo arrive and depart each year, floating on board thousands of vessels from all over the world. Increasingly, however, large ports are also...

Study of shipping routes maps delivery of invasive organisms

2013-05-05 07:00:00

When giant container ships sail into major ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach, it's not just clothing and cars that they deliver. They also carry critters. The specimens — microscopic algae cells or larger castaways, such as eggs of fish or...

Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?

2013-04-29 00:00:00

It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...

Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?

2013-02-08 09:39:00

Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...

Dockworker strike looms at Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports

2012-12-24 10:36:00

The nation's retailers, manufacturers and farmers are bracing for a possible strike that could idle U.S. ports all along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast. That walkout could begin as early as Sunday after the midnight Saturday expiration of a 90-...

Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension

2012-12-28 10:13:00

The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...

White House urges end to labor fight at East, Gulf Coast seaports

2012-12-27 11:36:00

The Obama administration is urging union dockworkers and a management group to "continue their work at the negotiating table to get a deal done as quickly as possible" to avoid a strike that could idle 14 East and Gulf Coast seaports. The word that...

Port strike numbers are out to sea

2012-12-05 02:25:00

Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...

Federal mediation in port strike agreed upon by both sides

2012-12-04 10:35:00

Both sides in the strike that has crippled the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have agreed to federal mediation, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Tuesday at a news conference. Villaraigosa said the agreement was an encouraging sign and could...

Port strike: Let's make a deal

2012-12-04 00:00:00

About 800 clerical workers based at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports find themselves in a position to wreak havoc on the economy of Southern California. Members of a local unit of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, they have gone on...

Port-strike talks continue even on Sunday, but stalemate goes on

2012-12-02 11:08:00

At least they are talking, even on Sunday. Labor contract negotiations are set to resume today in the now six-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Talks had continued past 9 p.m. Saturday night. The strike, by the 800-member...

Port labor talks shift into higher gear, but strike continues

2012-12-01 12:43:00

In a potentially hopeful sign, contract talks in the now 5-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went all night Friday and into early Saturday morning. "Representatives of the harbor employers and [union] leadership have resumed...

"The Secret Circle" is gone, but not forgotten! Shippers were rooting for Cassie and Jake, despite her whole soulmate/destiny thing with Adam.

2012-06-13 13:00:00

There really needs to be a power couple on the show that we really want to be together. Navid and Adrianna? Okay, but not exciting. Dixon (Tristan Wilds) and Silver?

2009-09-03 14:48:03