Vote Scheduled for Union Members to Ratify ILA Master Contract

The International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Exchange have each approved the tentative contract agreement reached last month for the dockworkers at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports. With these steps in place, the contract will be presented in the next two weeks to the rank-and-file followed by a vote scheduled for Tuesday, February 25.

Speaking in front of the union’s Wage Scale Committee and more than 200 delegates, ILA President Harold Daggett said, “I believe it is the greatest ILA contract, an…