Dockworker coordinate for the acceptance of a new employment contract
Attacks to the east and golf coast voted on Tuesday in favor of a new contract and ended the Labor Turbo in Häfen, which edit a large proportion of US trade with the rest of the world.
The Dockworker Union, the International Longshoremen's Association, said almost 99 percent of its members had supported the contract, which increases 62 percent of 62 percent for over six years and guarantees jobs if employers introduce a technology that can move the freight autonomously.
The deal was reached after a short strike in October, the first full strike since 1977 and the intervention of two US presidents.
Biden administration officers have prompted the United States Maritime Alliance, the group that represented employers, to increase their wage offer, which ended the strike and the I.La. Back to the negotiating table. After his election victory, Donald J. Trump supported the union and said that he supported her fight against automation.
“This is an incredible contract package,” said Harold J. Daggett, the President of the Ila, in an explanation.
Dockworkers have significant leverage in contractual talks because they can close ports and throw supply chains into chaos. However, Labor experts said Mr. Daggett strengthened the matter of the union through a strike and established strong relationships with Mr. Trump.
“The only way to get such a deal was the political power through strokes that showed that they had economic power and as it turned out.”
All 41 members of the Maritime Alliance, a group that comprises port operating companies and shipping lines, voted for the contract that covers the approximately 25,000 longshores, the containers on the east and golf coast.
As part of the contact, the hourly wages rise to 63 US dollars from the current 39 US dollars in 2029. This is comparable to the payment for dockworkers on the west coast, which is represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and whose wages will increase to almost 61 US dollars in 2027.
With overtime and higher tariffs for working at night, Longshoremen can earn well over $ 200,000 a year.
The ILA has long suspended the introduction of automated cranes and other machines.
Like the old contract, the new employer blocks employers to hire machines that can operate at any time without a person having their movements. The union of the west coast of Longshoremen has such a technology-to-drive vehicle with containers-in moving in its ports for years.
But the new contract of the ILA does not prevent employers from adding cranes who can sometimes carry out tasks – such as stack containers – without instructions on a person. And the new contract makes it easier for employers to introduce such cranes.
Nevertheless, the union received a job guarantee that management would assign at least one worker for any additional crane. (Now a union worker could monitor and operate several cranes at the same time.)
