Trucker Protest Keeps Dockworkers Off Work at Key California Hub

About 450 dockworkers have been unable to report to work at California’s third-busiest port of Oakland as truckers protesting a gig-work law block access to the operation for a fourth day.

The largest marine terminal at the port, SSA Marine Inc., which is responsible for much of arriving cargo, was closed for a third time this week on Thursday, according to port spokesman Robert Bernardo. The port’s three other terminals have vessel-labor operations under way, he said.

More 1,600 registered dockworkers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union worked at the Port of Oakland as of last year, according to ...