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For 2 days, Bob Nois sat in his truck, "I got here yesterday about 10 o'clock. load candy, load heart ship going to south Korea." That's 33,000 lbs of chocolate in the back of his truck. "Maybe it's called today taken back to Herchy."

The reason these Pennsylvania made chocolates did not leave for South Korea on Wednesday is because of a longshoremen strike. (All in despair to unity¹.) The strike by those who load and unload the ships ended late Wednesday afternoon. But for 2 days, all cargo² traffic at the port of New York and New Jersey³, the largest port on the east coast was shut down.

This longshoreman who would only give his first name Bill says he was striking over the hiring of non-union workers which he says puts his job at risk. "For our jobs, our livelihood⁴, our homes, security for our families. You have got  a point, a major cargo out of a LA facility to a non-union facility for what is basically working poor wages. "

The judge has ordered the longshoremen back to work after a law suit by the New York shipping⁵ association. As for Bob Nois, the man with the truckload of chocolates, he'd already left by the time the strike ended. "They don't wanna work, somebody else will, afforded amounts." He says her ship was finding another route for the candy. "I'll go somewhere to get them on, get them headed over there. I've loaded them at an airport, I go to an airport, I've got 10 up so far "

The New York association says longshoremen will work through the weekend to clear the backlog⁶. And labor⁷ talks are scheduled for next week.

Techia for the Associated Press, port Newark, New Jersey