Port Workers Return To Jobs After Agreement Reached

The agreement includes a $4-per-hour raise for each year of the six-year contract.

Thousands of port workers returned to work Friday after a brief strike.

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked off their jobs on Tuesday pushing for their demands to be met.

Thursday, regulators reached a tentative agreement.

The 50,000 union members across ports from Maine to Texas were asking for increased wages. They also expressing concerns that increased automation at the ports could cost union jobs.

The agreement includes a $4-per-hour raise for each year of the six-year contract. It also amounts to a first-year raise of just over 10% of the current contracts’ top pay of $39 an hour.

The union has now agreed to extend the contract it had with the United States Maritime Alliance, the management group known as USMX.