{"id":1785,"date":"2011-09-08T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2011\/09\/08\/strikes-cripple-us-west-coast-ports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:33:06","slug":"strikes-cripple-us-west-coast-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/north-america\/strikes-cripple-us-west-coast-ports\/","title":{"rendered":"Strikes cripple US west coast ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma, Seattle, Everett and Longview all fell victim to strikes with trucks backing up outside closed gates.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington, ILWU president, Mr McGrath and other ILWU members were defending the rights of workers at a new grain export terminal at the port of Longview. Local police reports claimed that \u2018hundreds\u2019 of longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview, overpowering security guards and damaging railroad cars.<\/p>\n<p>A Port of Seattle spokesman confirmed to local press that longshoremen did not turn up to work today, while at Everett, longshoremen reportedly walked out at 1.30 am.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Merrilees, spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said the organisation had not called for the stoppages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detention of International Longshore and Warehouse Union president Bob McEllrath yesterday while attending a port protest in Washington sparked wildcat strikes across US West Coast ports today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}