Port of Los Angeles

Some West Coast ports shut down after union workers walked off the job. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on June 2, 2023. 

Independent truckers snarled traffic on freeways in the Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Pedro areas this week to protest AB 5, a bill passed and signed into law years before that they argue is going to kill trucker jobs amid skyrocketing inflation and the supply chain issue. 

President Joe Biden discusses supply chain issues and his plan to battle inflation. Mekahlo Medina reports June 10, 2022.

A former locomotive engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was sentenced to three years behind bars today for intentionally running a train at full speed off the tracks near the Navy hospital ship Mercy, claiming the vessel was docked at the port as part of a possible “government takeover.”