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Pay for longshoremen is based on their years of experience. Under the ILA's former contract with USMX, which expired on Monday, starting pay for dockworkers was $20 per hour. That rose to $24.75 ...
For example, according to a 2019-20 annual report from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, about one-third of local longshoremen made $200,000 or more a year. A more typical longshoreman's salary can exceed $100,000, but not without logging substantial overtime hours.
With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MMP) International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America; International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers (Novelty and Production Workers) International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC)
The ILA demanded a pay raise and a freeze to automation at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. Longshoremen earned a top wage of $39 per hour (average American hourly wage was $28.34 at the time) and under Daggett's proposed contract, that top wage would have been moved to $69 per hour with a roughly 60% increase in pay over 6 years.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), representing around 85,000 workers, failed to reach an agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), leading to a stoppage at 36 ...
The Longshore Contract that resulted from 2002 negotiations expired on July 1, 2008. The ILWU and the PMA reached a tentative agreement for a new six-year Longshore Contract in July 2008. In the following weeks, the ILWU membership voted to approve the new contract.
While the union says there about 50,000 members covered by the contract, the USMX puts the number of jobs at the ports closer to 25,000, with not enough jobs for all the workers in the union to ...