Protesters removed barricades from the entrance to the Port of Oakland Thursday following an agreement reached between demonstrators and a port workers’ union, the Oakland Tribune reported.
Terminals at the port — the fifth largest U.S. container-handling port— were up and running Thursday, a port spokesman told the Tribune.
The Occupy Oakland movement that shut the port down Wednesday night reached agreement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union after the ILWU cited concerns about dock workers losing pay, the paper reported on its website.
Before removing the barricades, several demonstrators had gotten into near confrontations with some truckers at the port, but there were no reports of arrests or injuries, the Tribune said.
About 4,500 people from the Occupy Oakland movement marched to the port Wednesday night, shutting down operations.
Occupy Oakland, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York Sept. 17 and spread to other cities, had called for a general strike in the city, prompting hundreds of workers to stay home or leave their jobs early, Bloomberg reported.
