Common Contracts
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Wage ChronologyApril 23rd, 2015
A supplemental agreement for container freight sta The longest longshore strike in the Nation’s history tions (CFS) was reached on August 15, 1969, between was ended on February 21, 1972, when the approxi the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s mately 15,000 members of the ILWU began returning Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association to their jobs following ratification of a new 17-month (PMA).1 The pact specified that containers other than agreement with the PMA, reached on February 10, 1972. factory loads be stuffed and stripped by ILWU labor as a The strike, which was interrupted by a Taft-Hartley Act condition of being loaded on ships.2 All such container injunction, had closed down Pacific Coast ports in the work was to be brought to the CFS on the dock or areas United States for a total of 134 days since July 1,1971. adjacent to the dock, unless there was mutual agreement It resulted in the passage of emergency legislation by to have the work done elsewhere
