ILA Members Ratify Six-Year Contract

Rank-and-File members of the International Longshoremen’s Association at the Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports have overwhelmingly ratified a new six-year contract with the United States Maritime Alliance. The agreement is highly beneficial to the members, including record wage increases, protections against automation – a sticking point in many industries – among many other benefits, and will extend until 2030. “I am pleased to announce that thousands of ILA longshore workers covered by this Master Contract today have overwhelming supported its ratification with nearly 99 percent in favor, and we now have labor peace for the next six years,” said ILA President Harold Daggett who served as the union’s Chief Negotiator. “It was a tough contract to negotiate and even took a three-day coast-wide strike in October 2024. The ILA stayed strong and unified throughout and successfully won the greatest contract in ILA history and maybe the strongest Collective Bargaining Agreement ever negotiated by any union.”

Read the full story by International Longshoremen’s Association News, published here : https://ilaunion.org/rank-and-file-members-of-international-longshoremens-association-at-atlantic-and-gulf-coast-ports-overwhelmingly-ratify-provisions-of-new-six-year-master-contract/