Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts voted for a new contract on Tuesday, which ended work turbulence to ports that act a large part of our actions with the rest of the world.
The Dockworkers' Union, the International Long -Shoremen's Association, said that nearly 99 percent of its members had supported the contract, that wages increase 62 percent in six years and guarantees jobs when employers introduce technology that can move autonomously freight.
The deal was reached after a short strike in October, the first full strike since 1977 and the intervention of two American presidents.
Civil servants of the Biden government pushed the Maritime Alliance of the United States, the group that represents employers, to increase his wage offer that ended the strike and the I.LA. Back to the negotiating table. After his election victory, Donald J. Trump supported the Union and said he supported their fight against automation.
“This is an incredible contract package,” said Harold J. Daggett, the president of the Ila, in a statement.
Dockworkers have a considerable leverage in contract interviews because they can close ports and throw supply chains in chaos. But labor experts said that Mr. Daggett had strengthened the cause of the Union by calling a strike and by putting strong ties with Mr Trump.
“The only way they would have had such a deal was to be done, which showed that they had economic power and, it turns out, the political power,” said William Brucher, a university teacher at the Rutgers School of Management And Labor Relations.
All 41 members of the Maritime Alliance, a group that includes port companies and shipping companies, voted for the contract, which covers the approximately 25,000 lung shores that move containers on the East and Gulf coasts.
Under contact, the hourly wage will rise to $ 63 in 2029, of the current $ 39. That is comparable to the wages for Dockworkers on the West Coast, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose wages will rise to almost $ 61 in 2027 .
With overtime and higher rates for at night, lung humans can earn more than $ 200,000 a year.
The ILA has long been against the introduction of automated faucets and other machines.
Just like the old contract, the new employers of the use of machines that can work at any time without a person who focuses his movements. The West Coast Long-Shoremen's Union has allowed such technology-as containless vehicles without a driver, in its ports for years.
But the new contract of the ILA does not prevent employers from adding cranes that can sometimes perform tasks – such as stacking containers – without direction of a person. And the new contract makes it easier for employers to introduce such cranes.
Nevertheless, the trade union received a job guarantee that the management would assign at least one employee for each extra crane. (Now a remote trade union worker can supervise and exploit various cranes at the same time.)
