A historic United States port strike has been suspended and a tentative agreement was reached “on wages,” according to the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance.
“Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume,” the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday evening.
The tentative agreement would increase workers’ wages by 62% over the life of the 6-year contract, sources familiar confirm to ABC News.
This represents a significant increase from the shipping industry group’s offer of a 50% wage increase earlier this week. The union had been pushing for a 77% pay hike over six years.
The tentative agreement would bring the hourly wage for a top dockworker to $63 per hour at the end of the new contract, up from $39 per hour under the expired contract.
Congrats to the longshoremen!
Now do Healthcare workers and teachers!
Congrats-ish. That’s not exactly a huge pay rise.
They asked for 77% pay raises over 6 years and negotiated for 62%. This is a decent deal. Any victory for labor is a victory for all our us. Sure there is still a lot of work to be done, but this is a win.
Hence the “ish.” It’s a victory. It could be a better one. That’s a 15% difference from what they wanted.
Not necessarily. Prudent to start with an offer higher than your actual goal so you have room to bargain downward.
Absolutely. This is collective bargaining 101. Look at the historic UAW strike of 2023 and what they asked for at the start. Discounting that it was the first trilateral strike against the big three automakers union history, they asked for an historic amount of benefits and workplace changes.
-46% pay increase over contract duration
-Restoration of pension
-Retiree healthcare
-Healthcare benefits for all
-Cost of living adjustments
-End to the wage tiers system that divides the laborers into different “classes” of workers
-32-hour workweek with no loss in pay
If you don’t go for audacious, you will get far less than you need.
They got:
-25% pay increase in wages over the 4.5 year contract, 11% at outset
-Cost of living adjustments
-$5k bonus
-Elimination of the tiered wage system (Fucking huge)
If they never went to bat for the audacious, they never would have gotten the tiered system removed. Now they have far more solidarity and collective bargaining power for the next negotiation. All because of audacious demands and striking unilaterally across the big three.
This is just one contract negotiation and strike. Much work to still be done.
if you made $100k on the docks today, by 2030 you should make $162k. this is an excellent win for them.
That’s a big fucking if considering dock workers can make a hell of a lot less than that. In fact, the top rate is only a little over $80,000 a year.
If you work a ton of overtime, you can earn over $100,000. The average pay is a bit over $50,000.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-do-dock-workers-make-longshoreman-salary/
OK.
point wasn’t what you start with. point is what you end with.
don’t like base pay? strike again.
Yes. That’s exactly what I hope they do in January.
Longshoreman overtime is ass-backwards though. They clock crazy high OT and do shit like sleep on the clock and they get any shifts outside normal business hours counted as OT. The average pay is well over $100k iirc
They’re also super insular and basically the only way to get a job with them is to be a family member of someone who’s retiring.
I like unions but the ILA is basically a front for the mob. Their leader literally got involved in a ton of RICO charges that didn’t stick because a key witness mysteriously turned up dead in a trunk.
Also part of the reason they’re so insistent on paper records and refusing automation is so they can traffick humans, illegal goods, and steal stuff.
Would you care to elaborate why you say that isn’t a huge pay raise? It seems quite significant to me.
Dock workers can make as little as $14 an hour. A 62% pay rise would bring it up to $22.68 an hour. Over 6 years. Sure, $40,000 a year is better than a lot of jobs. It’s still atrociously low considering the amount of back-breaking labor that can be involved.
good for them!
now, let’s all point and laugh at the schmucks that learned nothing from 2020 and stockpiled TP this week.
now, let’s all point and laugh at the schmucks that learned nothing from 2020 and stockpiled TP this week.
Yeah! By this point everyone should be ordering their TP in 48-roll boxes from WhoGivesACrap!
Fuck yeah a win for humanity.
Defeat the fuckingcapitalists
