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The_Ancient · Jan 23, 2003

Longshoreman Vote on West Coast Contract

January 21, 2003 -- Los Angeles - Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union finished voting Monday on a contract covering West Coast ports, but results were not expected for another week. The 10,500 longshoremen covered under the agreement have been voting since Jan. 6 through the mail or at local union halls, said union spokesman Steve Stallone.
The six-year contract would provide no-cost health insurance, a 60 percent pension increase and a pay raise that would allow the average longshoreman to earn $90,000 a year.
Ballots will be collected at the ILWU's headquarters in San Francisco, where they will be tallied Jan. 22. The contract only needs a simple majority to be approved and would go into effect immediately, union officials said.
The agreement with shipping companies ended a dispute that shut down West Coast ports for 10 days last year. Contract talks between the union and the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shippers, didn't move forward until President Bush (news - web sites) used the Taft- Hartley Act to reopen the ports on Oct. 9, ending a lockout.
-Reuters
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Talk abotu BS, 90K a year, how ridculous.... plus they get no cost health insurance, I can can barley affords health insurance, and they cry babies get it for free,

Snausages01 · Jan 23, 2003

The six-year contract would provide no-cost health insurance, a 60 percent pension increase and a pay raise that would allow the average longshoreman to earn $90,000 a year.
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How do I become one of those?

trifle · Jan 23, 2003

man that's some crap....

that's better pay and benefits than many "higher" positions in other fields...plus all of those benefits, i'm sure there are plenty of people that have been doing manual labor or something along those lines that would gladly replace the previous workers at the previous job conditions (including salary, benefits, etc)

maybe if i cry enough at college they'll give me a BS in computer science after i've only completed enough to get my AS

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