A strike would undermine attempts by the Biden administration to prevent strikes and enforce substandard contracts in critical infrastructure with the assistance of the union bureaucracy.
The record of the ILWU, both before and after the July 1, 2022 expiration of the dockworkers contract, has demonstrated that the only unity it has displayed is with the PMA and the government.
The day before 200 longshore and warehouse workers went on strike at Westshore Terminal in Vancouver, 81 longshore workers at the Port of Quebec were locked out by their employer.