West Coast port employers and the union representing their longshore staff on Tuesday introduced they’d reached a tentative deal on well being advantages as a part of ongoing contract talks.
The deal, which covers the “upkeep of well being advantages,” is topic to “settlement on the opposite points within the negotiations,” the Worldwide Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Affiliation mentioned in a joint press launch. And whereas the 2 events mentioned they’d not talk about the phrases of the settlement, they mentioned the deal represented an “essential a part of the contract being negotiated.”
The ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Affiliation have been negotiating a contract that covers greater than 22,000 longshore staff at 29 West Coast port since Could 10. The healthcare deal is the primary official replace indicating progress within the talks because the contract expired on July 1.
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