The longshoremen have been joined by groups of students and artists who stay in eco-friendly dormitories.
The International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, posted news of the ratification on its website late Tuesday.
The contract between the longshoremen and the U.S. Maritime Alliance originally expired Sept. 30, 2012.
Labor negotiations have stalled between shipping industry management and the longshoremen across Eastern and Gulf Coast seaports.
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The CNA, tagged by its opponents as "longshoremen in scrubs, " is set on unionizing the nursing profession nationwide.
Antifree-trade sentiment also joins right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan and the left-wing Longshoremen's Association.
Mr. CHUCKY STEVENS (Volunteer Ambassador and Resident, New Orleans): The longshoremen come here and eat, unload the ships and load the ships.
Early film crew members were often off-duty sailors or longshoremen, a large source of group labor in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
Kazan introduced into cinema the faces and the vibrancy of the unseen American mongrel gallery: Mexican peasants, Italian longshoremen, Appalachian yeomen, black sharecroppers, Anatolian immigrants.
In addition, the Center believes that such non-governmental actions as consumer boycotts of Soviet goods and U.S. longshoremen refusing to load and unload Soviet ships can bring important presssure to bear on Moscow.
Among the job protections won was contract language that "strongly protects" union workers who have been displaced due to new technology and automation, and terms that restrict outsourcing or subcontracting of Longshoremen's Association jobs to non-union employers.
The 10, 500 longshoremen who control the west coast ports, furious about the Taft-Hartley decision, are now all the more determined to hold out for union control over jobs created by new technology at the ports (a key issue in the dispute).
For although remarkably few human beings are visible in the harbour itself modern technology has automated much of the process the ports directly or indirectly support about half a million jobs, from longshoremen to truckers and warehouse workers and those who sell and rent to them.
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If President Obama is serious about protecting critical infrastructure, fostering a climate that is conducive to international trade and investment, and cultivating the conditions for economic growth, he should invoke the powers afforded him under the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 to bar a strike by the longshoremen.
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