Dockworkers Accept Pact With Pay Freeze
Longshoremen on Monday overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract that some dockworkers had opposed because it would reduce the size of work crews and allow fewer employees to receive a guaranteed annual income.
The vote by eight locals of the International Longshoremen’s Assn., which represents 3,500 workers at ports on the Delaware River from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Del., was 787 to 353. Negotiators approved the tentative contract Friday, narrowly averting a strike scheduled for Saturday.
The agreement calls for a pay freeze at $17 per hour for the first two years and a $1 pay hike during the third year of the contract.
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