https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jmm7/dock-workers-threaten-to-shut-down-ports-after-risking-coronavirus-exposure > West Coast dock workers overseeing billions of dollars worth of trade are threatening to walk off the job, after unsanitary conditions put them at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure. > At the port of Oakland last week, members of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) gathered to address the media in the shadow of The Grand Princess cruise ship. The cruise liner, once home to some 2,400 passengers, has become a symbol in recent weeks of the looming fear of coronavirus after several hundred passengers tested positive for the disease and were quarantined in military bases across the country. Having departed from its dock in Oakland, the cruise ship now lingers off the coast in the San Francisco Bay as it completes a 14-day quarantine.