Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002 | 9:43 a.m.
More than ports from San Diego to Seattle were shut down today. So were contract talks between West Coast dockworkers and their employers after efforts to bring in a federal mediator collapsed. With today's negotiations canceled, union leaders were contemplating what their next step would be, Steve Stallone, a spokesman for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that represents some 10,500 dockworkers, said.
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