{"id":4116,"date":"2015-04-07T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2015\/04\/07\/ilwu-approves-west-coast-labour-agreement\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:37:33","slug":"ilwu-approves-west-coast-labour-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2015\/04\/07\/ilwu-approves-west-coast-labour-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"ILWU approves West Coast labour agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/news101\/world\/americas\/moving-towards-resolution \" target=\"_blank\">tentative agreement<\/a> was reached on 20 February by the ILWU\u2019s 16-member elected Negotiating Committee and eight-member Safety Sub-Committee. The proposed five-year contract covers 20,000 dockworkers at 29 west coast ports.<\/p>\n<p>All 90 delegates to the Coast Longshore Caucus recently reviewed the proposed agreement line-by-line, before voting by 78% to recommend the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement required 10 months of negotiations \u2013 the longest in recent history,\u201d said Bob McEllrath, international president, ILWU, \u201cbut we secured a tentative agreement to maintain good jobs for dockworkers, families and communities from San Diego to Bellingham. Longshore men and women on the docks will now have the final and most important say in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, copies of the agreement will be sent out to longshore union members, who will then have a chance to discuss the proposal at local union meetings. A secret ballot membership ratification vote will be the final step in the process.<\/p>\n<p>A final tally will be carried out on 22 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) coast longshore caucus delegates have voted to recommend approval of the tentative labour deal reached with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}