The Region : Kaiser Agrees to Reinstate Dockworkers

Faced with a union threat to shut down Los Angeles Harbor if a labor dispute was not resolved by Thursday, Kaiser International Corp. agreed to reinstate up to 75 fired dockworkers. The company and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union issued a one-sentence statement saying that the dispute had been resolved by placing Kaiser’s coal-unloading facility back under ILWU jurisdiction. The union had picketed the company Monday and asserted that Kaiser was attempting to establish a non-union beachhead in the harbor. Kaiser, a subsidiary of Kaiser Steel Corp., had told the union Friday that it was dismissing the workers and planning to operate on a non-union basis. “We won and we feel good about it,” a union spokesman said.