A tentative agreement between port terminal operators and the longshoreman's union averts a strike that would have shut down major East and Gulf Coast ports. The deal includes protections against automation replacing jobs and builds on previous wage gains for longshoremen.
Port terminal operators and the longshoreman’s union reached a tentative deal on Wednesday that averts a port strike that would have shut down the major East and Gulf Coast ports next week. The deal must still be voted on by union members but offers workers new protections against automated technology replacing jobs. The International Longshoremen ’s Association, the union representing dockworkers, and the U.S.
Maritime Alliance, representing container carriers and port operating employers, called the deal a “win-win” in a joint statement. ‘This agreement protects current ILA jobs and establishes a framework for implementing technologies that will create more jobs while modernizing East and Gulf coasts ports - making them safer and more efficient, and creating the capacity they need to keep our supply chains strong,’ the two sides said in a joint statement. The looming strike could have shut down all major ports from Maine to Texas had a deal not been reached by Jan. 15, costing the economy hundreds of millions of dollars a day, according to some estimates. The parties had resumed negotiations earlier this week after not meeting since November. They had been at odds over the use of automated technology that the union feared would kill jobs - a growing cause of concern among many labor unions. The details of wage gains were not made public but a prior agreement reached in October included a major raise for longshoremen of 62 percent over six years. Those pay gains would amount to a $24-an-hour bump in the top pay rate over six years.The previously negotiated wage gains and the new protections preventing automation from replacing workers come after similar gains in recent years by unions representing autoworkers, Hollywood actors and screenwriters, and UPS delivery driver
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