Are the US East Coast ports going to face the same union grief about their stevedores’ contract negotiations as their West Coast buddies did for over six months?
The news on negotiations up to now is good.
International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the group that represents their employers, told the American Shipper last Thursday that they had “concluded two days of productive exploratory talks on extending the current Master Contract and will begin full wage scale meetings in mid-September, 2015”.
The current ILA-USMX Master Contract runs until September 2018 and the two sides agreed to begin talks to extend that pact by up to seven years.
And both sides are currently optimistic over a settlement of talks. “The ILA and USMX are committed to keeping commerce moving at US Eastern and Gulf Coast ports and we think this extension will achieve that goal,” said a joint statement.
Are US East Coast ports facing possible union grief?
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