International Longshoremen’s Association

The United States Maritime Alliance has chosen F. Paul De Maria to serve as chief executive and chairman of the port employers’ group.

De Maria was the alliance’s chief negotiator in contentious contract talks with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). The pact, one of the richest in the history of maritime labor, includes landmark provisions for automating container handling at East and Gulf Coast ports.

De Maria succeeds David F. Adam, who retired...

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The deal, which gives union members a 62% raise over the course of the contract and job protections linked to automation technology, is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, and runs through Sept. 30, 2030. The pact covers 24,000 employees in container handling at 14 ports from Texas to Massachusetts.

ILA International President Harold Daggett, who served as the union’s chief negotiator, celebrated the deal as the best package ever secured for members. It also includes accelerated wage raises for new...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ila-port-employers-sign-historic-6-year-contract

After hammering out a tentative contract described as the richest in the history of the union, the leader of the International Longshoremen’s Association is taking nothing for granted ahead of a ratification vote by members next Tuesday.

“Even though I am extremely pleased with the proposed extension that the ILA has negotiated, there is still one final obstacle that must be overcome before the ILA can say that its members will be protected for the next six years, the ratification vote,” ILA...

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Rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) will vote Feb. 25 on what union leadership called “the hardest and most complicated contract to bargain … in the history of the ILA” with East and Gulf coast port employers.

The announcement posted late today by the ILA on social media followed unanimous approval of the new six-year master contract by the union’s Wage Scale Committee.

Approval by 25,000 union members in container handling would end a contentious period of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ila-sends-longshore-contract-to-rank-and-file-for-approval

The International Longshoremen’s Association expects to shortly take the next steps toward ratifying a new contract with East and Gulf Coast port employers. 

Union leadership will be scheduling meetings “in the next few weeks” with ILA wage scale delegates to review the tentative agreement with terminal operators and ocean carriers of the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), said a source close to the negotiations.

Pending the delegates’ expected approval, a ratification date would be set for...

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