Stat’s Incredible: Breaking Down the West Coast Port Labor Agreement

Container ship in the Port of Los Angeles

Temperatures may be rising. But the sometimes-heated contract dispute between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has finally cooled down. On June 14, the two parties reached a tentative new agreement that should keep dock workers’ salaries – and West Coast port operations – in ship shape for the next six years…

29 Ports involved 22,000 ILWU members impacted 32% of total combined wage increase for the past 6 years that those 22,000 workers will receive (an average annual increase of 5.7%). This increase includes the retroactive pay for the 8 months without a contract $70 million COVID bonus that will be paid out to the ILWU and distributed among ILWU west coast port workers $1 billion Amount per day that a strike would reportedly have cost the U.S. economy 15% of container traffic that the Port of Los Angeles estimates it lost to Gulf Coast and East Coast ports due to shippers’ concerns about a possible strike

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