Viewpoint: Longshore Workers Vote for Port Shutdown: Stopping Union-Busters Means Defying the Law

San Francisco has been a union town since the historic 1934 maritime strike of sailors and longshoremen which turned into a citywide general strike after two strikers were killed by police. The strikers’ slogan then was, “An injury to one is an injury to all.” Now, every July 5, “Bloody Thursday,” West Coast ports close from the Canadian to the Mexican border to commemorate the militant strike that forged the organized labor movement. But will San Francisco remain a union town? . . .