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April 16 2018 www.joc.com
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The International Longshoremen's Association
(ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX)
in late March reported "significant progress"
during two days of bargaining on a six-year
extension of their East and Gulf Coast labor
contract. The negotiations last month in Newark,
New Jersey, were the first for the ILA and USMX
since early December, when negotiations broke
off aer a disagreement over the contract's
definition of automated terminals, which ILA
President Harold Daggett opposes. Committees
from both sides worked to develop a contract
package to present to the ILA's 200-member
wage scale committee "in the near future," the
ILA and USMX said in a joint statement. The next
step would be a coastwide ratification vote.
"We were able to accelerate master contract
bargaining with smaller 20-member committees
from the ILA and USMX to work out terms of
agreement, Daggett and USMX Chairman David
F. Adam said. "We are confident that the work
we have performed these past two days will
ultimately lead to a six-year agreement that will
bring stability and growth to our industry to
2024," Daggett and Adam said. They would not
comment further. Beneficial cargo owners (BCOs)
are anxious for an agreement well in advance of
the Sept. 30 expiration of the current coastwide
agreement. The ILA-USMX master contract covers
wages, medical benefits, carrier-paid container
royalties, and other coastwide issues. Bargaining
on supplementary local and regional contracts,
which cover work rules, pensions, and other
port-specific issues, are conducted separately.
When the ILA and USMX broke off master contract
negotiations last December, Daggett said he was
prepared to delay the resumption of bargaining
until the contract expired. Last month, however,
the ILA and USMX indicated that a solution to the
automation issue was in sight, and said they were
ready to resume bargaining. "The ILA has received
assurances from USMX that issues and concerns
regarding automation have been adequately
addressed, opening a path toward successfully
negotiating a new agreement well before the
current master contract expires at the end of
September," the union and employers said in a
joint statement on March 9.
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