LWC, 2010 ILA Master Contract: End the wage and benefit tier - - Posted on February, 5 at 5:00 pm
2010 ILA Master Contract Extension Negotiations
* Longshore Contract: Peter Robbed, Paul Paid, Reformers Regroup (Labor Notes article)
CONTRACT DETAILS
YOUR VOTING RIGHTS
ADDITIONAL 11/17 VOTE NO FLYERS & NEWS
- What ILA Members Are Saying About the Contract (Posted 11/16)
- Vote NO = Send ILA & USMX Back to the Bargaining Table! (Posted 11/13)
- Hughes Cancels Open Discussion on the Contract (Posted 11/12)
- Hey USMX: Hands Off Our Cookie Jar! It’s Time to Stop This Game! (Posted 10/24)
Saque la mano de nuestra alcancia! Necesitamos un puente real de salarios, no el robo de nuestros beneficios!
- We Need More Than Talk, We Need Action! VOTE NO on Contract Extension Proposal on 11/17. (Posted 10/9)
- It’s Your Contract, Get the Facts! What USMX and ILA Aren’t Telling You
Es su contrato. Informese! Lo que USMX y ILA no dicen.
- USMX Final Offer, Rejected at September 2-3 Wage Scale Committee Meeting
* Click here for the USMX contract extension offer
* Click here for LWC analysis of the USMX offer
* Click here for LWC news story on contract rejection
- “Hughes Tries to Railroad Contract Extension”
Master Contract Bargaining Update #5 (August 21, 2009)
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September 11th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
What I don’t understand is…. we have guy/gals making 700 or more hours a year, as casuals (Non-union) on the waterfront, but won’t let them into the ILA… and then we complain about Non-union ports! If non-union ports continue to open at the current pace and then begin to seek out experienced and trained people on the waterfront, those casuals are going to take our training and leave us. We need to make them apart of us before we lose them. Make them whole to grow the ILA…they have earned it!
September 29th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Mr. Hughes and all negotiating this contract had better keep in mind that your bottom brothers and sisters in the I.L.A. are the future of the I.L.A. To weaken their status and put their job security in jeopardy would be the demise and slow death of this union. For us at the bottom we have had to deal with the low wage scale for the past five years doing the same work as the union brother next us who is making almost double what we are doing the same work. The 16.00 dollar starting rate of pay was bad enough and now it’s possible were not going to get the final raise of the contract that to many of is 1.50 per hour. On top of all this a good majority of us that were hired over the past five years only work nine months or less out of the year. If the powers that be do not go into these contract negotiations with it’s bottom and future union brothers best interest in mind you will be responsible for the death of this union. All it takes is one bad contract to erase years of great progression and job security obtained through smart tough contract negotiations. We haved lived through a bad contract the past five years, we at the bottom will not survive another thus the foundation those at the top stand on shall and will fall out from under them.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
well said, lets stop selling our souls to usmx and unite for a fair and equitable contract for all -TOP PAY FOR ALL AFTER 3 YRS OR 3000 HOURS VOTE NO ON NOV. 17 WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS FARCE OF AN EXTENSION…..