The eight hundred clerks of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63, walked off the job last Tuesday.
They are demanding that the ports keep all current jobs as unions ones, while the ports are trying to remove some of the jobs, after people retire, saying they don't need so many workers.
Other unions have refused to cross the picket lines, meaning longshoremen, shippers, and every other job at the anchorage has been brought to a stop as well.
Eleven ships are waiting off of Los Angeles and Long Beach, while another eleven have already left to head for other ports.
Los Angeles' mayor and other unions have called for mediation to begin, in the labor dispute, but the clerks' union has refused it.
Some have gone as far as asking President Obama to intervene in the case.
Estimates show that the ports are losing over one billion dollars, each day, that they are closed.
Over one million Californians have jobs, related to the ports, that have been affected by the strike.
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