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From the Journal of Commerce: U.S. East Coast ports experienced widely varying impacts from the months-long threat of labor strife that began last year with the breakdown of talks for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract. Because the ILA contract was not settled until early this year, cargo diversions continued into the first quarter of [...]  Our condolences go out to Mr. Mahoney’s family, friends, and colleagues. From the Courier-Post: A worker who died in a forklift accident at the Port of Camden on Tuesday has been identified as a Sicklerville resident and well-known longshoreman. Police did not officially release the victim’s name, but James Dugan, secretary of the International [...] USMX has issued the following news release: Vote Concludes 13 Months of Negotiations with Longshoremen NEWARK, N.J. (April 17, 2013) — After more than a year of bargaining, members of the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. (USMX) voted today to ratify a new six-year Master Contract with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). The approval came [...] The Journal of Commerce reports:
”Last month, Daggett said an ILA steering committee would evaluate the union’s affiliation with the AFL-CIO, the federation’s transportation trades and maritime trades departments, and other groups ‘to make certain we are equal partners among unions as members of these labor organizations.”’ -JOC International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett has [...] From the International Longshoremen’s Association. April 9: A new six-year Master Contract, covering some 14,500 waterfront workers belonging to the International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO (ILA) was overwhelming approved by ILA members today in a ratification vote conducted at ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast. The ILA negotiated this new Master Contract with United States [...] From the Journal of Commerce: International Longshoremen’s Association members will vote April 9 on a landmark contract that was starting to look impossible without a strike. Final agreement by the ILA and United States Maritime Alliance didn’t come easily. Some of USMX’s carrier members made an unsuccessful last-minute appeal for additional concessions. ILA officials said [...] The federal mediator who twice succeeded in extending contract talks as strike deadlines loomed issued a statement today praising Daggett and USMX Chairman James Capo for coming to terms. The USMX and the ILA issued a joint statement in which Capo said he was “obviously pleased,” by the agreement. Daggett was quoted as calling it, [...] Excerpts from International Business Times: Even if ILA members approve the master contract, it only goes into effect if local contract issues specific to individual ports are resolved, issues that include work rules and pensions. None of the local negotiations are as challenging as those of the Port of New York and New Jersey, where [...] The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service’s announcement on the tentative ILA-USMX master agreement is available in pdf format on ILA’s web site and below: Update on United States Maritime Alliance And International Longshoremen’s Association Labor Negotiations WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen issued the following statement today on [...] From the Journal of Commerce: Negotiations are resuming this week at East and Gulf Coast ports on local agreements that supplement the coastwide master contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association and its employers. The ILA and United States Maritime Alliance tentatively agreed Friday night on a six-year master contract. … The ILA-USMX coastwide agreement is [...] From today’s Journal of Commerce: The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance appear to be moving closer to an agreement that would keep East and Gulf Coast ports open after the current dockworker contract expires at midnight Wednesday. Negotiators met into the night Thursday and reportedly exchanged contract proposals that were to be [...] Excerpted from a Journal of Commerce Analysis: East Coast ports maintained their lead in containerized exports in the first nine months of 2012 and increased their share of import and export markets. And they did so despite shipper concerns at the end of September over a potential strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association and a [...] From Tuesday’s Journal of Commerce: The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance held a full day of contract negotiations Tuesday and planned to continue their federally mediated bargaining Wednesday. No details were available on the substance of the negotiations, which are being overseen by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. A 20-member ILA [...] Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal will vote later this month on an agreement with the port’s Maritime Employers Association on a six-year contract. No date has been set for the vote by Local 375 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. About 1,000 union members have been working under an extension of a contract [...] From the Journal of Commerce: The threat of a strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association had a widely divergent impact on cargo volumes at the five major East Coast container ports as two separate contract deadlines loomed in the last half of 2012, first on Sept. 30 and then by extension to Dec. 29. The [...] |
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