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...Atlantic and Gulf Coast dock strike was one of the longest and costliest in U.S. maritime history. It left 100,000 workers idle, including 62,000 striking longshoremen, cost $700 million and created dislocations, small or large, in almost every industry in the nation. Last week, after 33 days, the strike ended-but the settlement caused almost as much commotion and concern as the strike itself...
James J. Healy, professor of industrial relations at the Business School said yesterday that the longshoremen's contract he helped write would not compromise the Kennedy administration's anti-inflation program...
...think that the five per cent figure is based on some cockeyed reasoning," Healy said. "In any case, demonstrable inequities in longshoremen's standard of living necessitated a large pay increase...
...example, the teamsters who haul cargo to the docks and the sailors who run the ships both have $100-per-month pension programs, with money provided by employers. Even the longshoremen on the West Coast receive $100. But the dock workers who load the cargo onto the ships got $85 per month," Healy said...
Employers and the International Longshoremen's Association agreed to the settlement last Friday after a 34-day strike against East and Gulf Coast ship-owners...