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(This is a long-time goal of the PMA and other companies whose workers the ILWU represents. [14]) 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 ...
Members of the ILWU voted 75% in favor of approving the West Coast port worker agreement that will expire on July 1, 2028. ... -U.S. dockworkers ratified a six-year contract that improved pay and ...
Labor negotiations for dockworkers are approaching at ports on the West Coast as the workers' current contracts are set to expire on July 1, adding an additional risk to fragile supply chains.
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
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 per hour after two years on the job and to $31.90 after three ...
Its principal business is to negotiate and administer labor agreements with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). PMA's 72 members are cargo carriers, terminal operators, and stevedores that operate along the U.S. West Coast. In 1960, it negotiated the Mechanization and Modernization Agreement. [4]
West Coast dockworkers are represented by a different union, the International Longshore & Warehouse Union, or ILWU, which agreed to a new contract with the Pacific Maritime Assn. last year.
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages By TOM KRISHER and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if ...