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Cargo letup weighs on nonunion dockworkers
(Los Angeles Times)
January 19, 2009
By Ronald D. White Los Angeles Times
The waterfront was booming in 2005 when Joey Hurtado inherited his uncle's longshore card.
Consumers were spending, and the toys, clothes and other goods they bought had to be hauled across the Pacific from factories in Asia. As a nonunion “casual” on the wharves in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Hurtado got the chance to train and work at one of the nation's highest-paying blue-collar jobs ...... Read more on Los Angeles Times
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