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LA ports dispute and the state of collective bargaining
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Feb 18, 2015
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LA ports dispute and the state of collective bargaining
As west coast dockworkers and shipping companies continue to negotiate, lessons can be learned about the power of collective bargaining.
Port of Los Angeles.
Negotiations between the dockworkers union and shipping companies association continue.
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As west coast dockworkers and shipping companies continue to negotiate, lessons can be learned about the power of collective bargaining.

There are lessons to be learned about the power of collective bargaining from the ongoing drama along West Coast ports. Dockworkers and shipping companies continue to negotiate, in part, over how to settle disputes. 

Host Tess Vigeland talks to Harley Shaiken, professor of education and geography at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied labor issues for years.