Members of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) have approved a new six-year master contract covering US East and Gulf coast ports that not only includes a hefty raise for all dockworkers but an even higher salary bump for new hires. The new contract is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, and will be in effect until Sept. 30, 2030. It will be signed in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n
While the union secured further protections against automation, maritime employers won room for efficiency gains through remote operation of terminal equipment and the use of operator assistance technology at ports.<\/p>\n
The ILA said late Tuesday that a majority of its 45,000 registered members ratified the new contract that was tentatively agreed to in early January between union leadership and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).<\/p>\n
ILA President Harold Daggett said in a statement the contract, which involved three years of negotiations and a three-day strike last October, is a \u201cgold standard\u201d for labor thanks to its wage and benefit increases and protections against technology that could impact labor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ILA stayed strong and unified throughout and successfully won the greatest contract in ILA history and maybe the strongest collective bargaining agreement ever negotiated by any union,\u201d Daggett said.<\/p>\n
The ILA highlighted the 62% wage increase as measured against the contract\u2019s top wage tier, equating to an average $4 per hour raise for all dockworkers during the contract\u2019s term. But the contract also includes other wage concessions that mean the lowest-paid longshore workers will receive even larger percentage wage increases.<\/p>\n
The starting wage for first-year longshore workers goes from $20 per hour to $27 under the new six-year agreement. By 2026, the starting wage will increase to $30 per hour. The new contract also includes four wage tiers instead of the six under the previous master contract, allowing longshore workers to climb up the pay scale faster.<\/p>\n
A marine terminal source familiar with the new contract says that the higher starting wage means a 35% increase for new longshore workers in the first year alone.<\/p>\n
The contract is expected to be formally signed on March 10.<\/p>\n
Details please refer to the JOC news.<\/em><\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Angell, M. (2025, February 26). Ila ratifies new six-year deal with higher entry pay, automation protection<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/ila-ratifies-new-six-year-deal-with-higher-entry-pay-automation-protection-5951338<\/p>\n Members of the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) have approved a new six-year master contract covering US East and Gulf coast ports that not only includes a hefty raise for all dockworkers but an even higher salary bump for new hires. The new contract is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, and will be in effect until …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[84,83],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-maritime","tag-us-ports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}