Lockout Disaster Averted.

From: The Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneBusiness News) | Date: October 13, 2002 | Copyright information

Oct. 13--The longshoremen's lockout of 2002 may be remembered in the Northwest as the perfect storm that was not.

Conditions seemed ripe for economic disaster: high unemployment, a flat economy, an approaching holiday retail season and then -- a shutdown of West Coast ports.

Yet in reality, the shutdown of 29 West Coast ports appears to be a glancing blow off the side of the regional economy, rather than a direct hit. While several thousand port workers and em...

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