The U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) and International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) said they have agreed to extend the March 1 deadline for completion of local negotiations to March 8.
They said the extended deadline will coincide with the wage scale meetings planned by the union for the week of March 11.
USMX and the ILA reached a tentative agreement on Feb. 1 on a new six-year master contract. The ILA-USMX master contract covers more than 14,500 ILA members who handle containerized cargoes in 14 U.S. East and Gulf coast ports….