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G****s
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in 2002, the AVERAGE ILWU union worker salary was $106, 833. This is salary,
not counting union worker any benefits and pensions.
They demand a 57% raise over 3 years.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200210/ai_n9144523/
Despite pause, West Coast dock dispute far from over
Human Events, Oct 21, 2002
12Next ..Longshoremen-Earning More Than $100,000 Per Year-Refuse to Reduce
Demands
After being forced back to work temporarily by a federal judge, the 10,500-
member International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) obstinately
refuses to resolve a contract dispute that so far has cost the U.S. economy
nearly $10 billion.
The impact of the labor shutdown on West Coast ports has reverberated
economy-wide, affecting everything from retail goods to military supplies.
The value of trade through West Coast ports last year was $300 billion,
roughly equivalent to 7% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. Another
shutdown could plunge the economy back into recession.
After waiting weeks to intervene out of fear of alienating unions just
before the midterm elections, President Bush, at the pleading of the
business community, invoked the Taft-Hartley Act. As required by the act,
Bush first determined that the labor dispute threatened "national health and
safety," and then the Justice Department persuaded a federal judge in San
Francisco to grant an injunction, which ended the "work stoppage."
The injunction initiated Taft-Hartley's so-called 80-day "cooling off period
." As of now, the ports are functioning again, longshoremen have returned to
their jobs, and negotiations, overseen by federal mediators, between the
ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), which controls and operates
the ports, are ongoing. But once the 80-day period expires, Taft-Hartley
provides no recourse to end the dispute.
The prospects for a resolution look dim, partly because Taft-Hartley, while
providing some breathing room, does not provide a mechanism for reaching a
final settlement of such disputes.
Big Benefits
But even more crucially, the ILWU insists that its inflexible demands be
honored, refusing offers most union and non-union members would heartily
accept.
The dispute is rooted in the PMA's long-standing plans to modernize West
Coast ports. The PMA controls and operates those ports, which are dotted
along the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles to Seattle. For years, principally
because of opposition from the ILWU, these ports, unlike ports around the
world, have not been upgraded to meet the demands of global commerce.
The ILWU opposes modernization out of fear that union jobs will be replaced
by new technology.
Such technology, according to the PMA, is badly needed, but hardly
revolutionary. "In some cases, longshore workers still use chalk to identify
and track cargo at a time in this Age of Technology when local grocery
stores and video rental outlets use barcodes and scanners," said the PMA's
Tom Edwards.
"We have ILWU clerks re-typing information when that information can be
reprocessed with the press of a button. We're not talking hi-tech here," he
said. "But we need this technology to meet new demands, and stay competitive
."
Edwards said the ILWU's opposition is baseless, since the PMA agreed not to
sacrifice a single union job to technological development. "PMA has
guaranteed job protection for every registered worker who may be impacted by
technology," he said. "Not one member of the ILWU will lose his or her job
because of this technology."
Another point of contention is how longshoremen should be compensated.
Longshoremen are among the most highly paid union workers in the country.
Currently, the average annual salary for a full-time longshore worker is $
106, 833. Nonetheless, the ILWU insists the PMA boost those salaries by a
whopping 57% over three years. Not surprisingly, the PMA has refused.
The PMA responded by offering a 17% increase, which would hike the average
salaries for longshoremen and marine clerks to $114,500 and $137,500
respectively.
The ILWU, however, is stubbornly refusing to accept anything less than its
final proposal. Union officials argue that they have compromised enough. In
their view, they graciously abandoned their original bargaining position of
a 70% increase over three years.
In trying to break the stalemate, the PMA threw in big benefit increases.
The cost of ILWU benefits last year was $42,000 per worker. According to the
Department of Labor statistics, full-time U.S. workers earn, on average,
about $35,000 in benefits. The PMA's offer would increase the ILWU benefit
package to $59,000 annually.
Thus far, the ILWU has shown no sign of urgency to reach consensus. Contract
talks began on May 13. During the following 10 weeks, the ILWU agreed to
meet only 28 times for a total of 53.5 hours. Despite the PMA's repeated
requests to meet more frequently, and for longer periods, the ILWU refused,
and even said it was unwilling to work weekends.
Copyright Human Events Publishing, In
G****s
发帖数: 3523
2
If I remember correctly, after the final settlement, the union workers
salary went to 120K AVERAGE in 2002.
G****s
发帖数: 3523
3
Check this portion:
The PMA responded by offering a 17% increase, which would hike the average
salaries for longshoremen and marine clerks to $114,500 and $137,500
respectively.
The ILWU, however, is stubbornly refusing to accept anything less than its
final proposal. Union officials argue that they have compromised enough. In
their view, they graciously abandoned their original bargaining position of
a 70% increase over three years.
m*****y
发帖数: 2424
4
I remember this. There were many ships anchored in the bay because there was
nobody on the dock to unload cargo. The ILWU is the epitome of unions that
have become roadblocks for economic growth by holding the rest of the
society hostage so that their unreasonable demands could be met. What a
bunch of evil mofas!
G****s
发帖数: 3523
5
That strike had quite some effects.
Tons of cargo ships had to turn to vancouver to unload, tons of them
returned to where they departed, and tons cancelled. Cargos in shanghai got
piled up.

was
that

【在 m*****y 的大作中提到】
: I remember this. There were many ships anchored in the bay because there was
: nobody on the dock to unload cargo. The ILWU is the epitome of unions that
: have become roadblocks for economic growth by holding the rest of the
: society hostage so that their unreasonable demands could be met. What a
: bunch of evil mofas!

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