News / Truckers end port of Oakland protest blockade over AB5 law – for now

© Sheila Fitzgerald

Cargo was finally flowing again through the US port of Oakland yesterday after a blockade by truckers had paralysed freight traffic over the past week.

And agriculture shippers hope there will be no repeat of the blockage.

“The port of Oakland has resumed full operations,” announced a relieved port executive director Danny Wan yesterday, after truckers had decided not to continue their action at the port’s gates.

In protest against California’s AB5 legislation on employment status, truck owner-operators, who constitute the bulk of ...