Strike Not Flooding U.S. Ports Yet

November 15, 1999 9:50 AM, EST

U.S. ports are bracing for additional loads if a lockout at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, is not resolved soon, but so far U.S. port truckers are not seeing much extra traffic come their way.

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On Nov. 7, the British Columbia Maritime Employers’ Association, which represents employers at Canada’s West Coast ports, refused to let members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union go to work, provoking charges of “irresponsibility” from the union.

The ILWU represents 2,200 workers at the Port of Vancouver.

The lockout has idled most sections of the port, diverting shiploads of consumer goods to alternative ports in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore. Grain and coal shipments are not affected by the stoppage.

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