ILWU OCU Members Reject Tentative Contract At All Units of Los Angeles/Long Beach Ports

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s office clerical unit (OCU) at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., voted late Feb. 6 to reject a tentative collective bargaining agreement reached in December with the Harbor Employers Association, the employers’ group announced Feb. 7.

The Los Angeles/Long Beach HEA said the port complex remained open Feb. 8, however, with normal operations.

The tentative contract—to cover some 650 full-time marine clerks and another 250 on-call workers—reached Dec. 4, 2012, ended an eight-day strike by OCU members that had been honored by thousands of longshore workers, effectively closing the ...