Dock Workers Veto Tentative Settlement

Fri., Aug. 30, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

A tentative agreement giving 8,500 dock workers from Seattle to San Diego a 13 percent raise over three years has been vetoed by union locals in San Francisco and Los Angeles who are angered over other provisions they say will cut their pay.

The bargaining committee of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union had recommended acceptance of the new contract, which would bring base pay to $22.68 per hour.

Sources at the union and at the Pacific Maritime Association, a shippers organization, said it had passed a union vote by a narrow margin.

However, under union rules the contract is not accepted if any local votes against it, as Local 10 in San Francisco and Local 13 in Los Angeles overwhelmingly did.

The vetoes could be overridden at a second vote, expected to be held the week of Sept. 16, with a 60 percent overall margin required. If that isn’t achieved, the union and shippers are expected to reopen negotiations.

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