CLERICAL workers and longshoremen at the US's largest port complex have agreed to return to work on Wednesday, eight days after they walked out in a crippling strike that prevented shippers from delivering billions of dollars in cargo across the country.
"I'm really pleased to tell all of you that my 10,000 longshore workers in the ports of LA and Long Beach are going to start moving cargo on these ships," said Ray Familathe, vice president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
"We're going to get cargo moved throughout the supply chain and the country and get everybody those that they're looking for in those stores."
Negotiators reached a tentative agreement to end the strike late on Tuesday, less than two hours after federal mediators arrived from Washington DC. No details about the terms of the deal were released, though a statement from the union said it had won new protections preventing jobs from being outsourced.
At issue during the lengthy negotiations was the union's contention that terminal operators wanted to outsource future clerical jobs out of state and overseas - an allegation the shippers denied.
Shippers said they wanted the flexibility not to fill jobs that were no longer needed as clerks quit or retired. They said they promised the current clerks lifetime employment.
The strike began November 27, when 450 members of the union's local clerical workers unit walked off their jobs. The clerks had been working without a contract for more than two years.
The walkout quickly closed 10 of the ports' 14 terminals when some 10,000 dockworkers, members of the clerks' sister union, refused to cross picket lines.
Even though the deal was reached soon after their arrival, the federal mediators said they had little to do with the solution.
"In the final analysis, it worked. The parties reached their own agreement, said George Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. "There is no question in my mind that collective bargaining is the best example of industrial democracy in action."
During the strike, both sides said salaries, vacation, pensions and other benefits were not a major issue.
Combined, the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle about 44 per cent of all cargo that arrives in the US by sea. About $US1 billion ($A958.91 million) a day in merchandise, including cars from Japan and computers from China, flow past its docks.
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