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Negotiations between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance began breaking down in June 2024. [6] One major sticking point was wages. The ILA wanted members to receive a $5/hour raise each year of the next six-year contract, whereas the Maritime Alliance proposed a $2.50/hour raise each year. [6]
The ILA threatened to strike that month unless they would receive wage hikes and a ban on automation at U.S. ports. ILA members were offered a nearly 50% wage hike, triple employer contributions to pension plans, and better health care options while retaining current rules on automation, but the ILA rejected the offer and began a strike in October.
The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), an association of companies that operate East and Gulf Coast ports, reached a tentative agreement ...
The ILA members' strike, which consisted of over 47,000 port workers across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey, began on Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the union ...
The strike resulted in a massive defeat for the ILA, and employers began an effort to eliminate the ILA's presence on the waterfront. [ 4 ] Longshoremen on the West Coast ports had either been unorganized or represented by company unions since the years immediately after World War I , when the shipping companies and stevedoring firms had ...
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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association.