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It is the Office Clerical group in the ILWU that has been working without a contract the last 5 months. The sticky issue is having their jobs outsourced to foreign workers overseas.
Sorry, that is not an accurate description of the issue. These unions are pushing back against technology improvements.
——Some union members also complain that technology itself jeopardizes jobs by automating some of the work previously performed manually by workers covered under old union contracts.
This has been a long standing effort of those Port Unions to avoid modernization.
——Technology emerged as a sticking point as the International Longshoremen’s Association and Atlantic and Gulf waterfront management entered a second day of discussions on a possible contract extension of their coastwide master contract.
http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/longshoremen-management-resume-talks_20090902.html
The combination of automated and manual crane operation results in a faster transfer, Harris said. For example, the Portsmouth terminal operates at a rate of 45 container-moves per hour, compared with a nationwide average of 35 to 38 moves.
http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/01/post_104.html