The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) is a non-profit organization based in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

that represents employers of the shipping industry on the Pacific coast.Robert Wright. "US supply chains face lengthy turmoil despite port deals". ''Financial Times'', February 23, 2015, p. 8.

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The Pacific Maritime Association was founded in 1949Pacific Maritime Association: Overview
/ref> as a non-profit corporation. Its principal business is to negotiate and administer labor agreements with the

International Longshore and Warehouse Union The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada. The union was established in 1937 after the 1934 West ...

(ILWU). PMA's 72 members are cargo carriers, terminal operators, and stevedores that operate along the U.S. West Coast. In 1960, it negotiated the Mechanization and Modernization Agreement. As of December 2012, PMA members employed nearly 14,000 registered longshore, clerk and foreman workers at 29 west coast ports in California, Oregon, and Washington, and thousands more “casual” workers, who typically work part-time. Since the 2002 agreement that brought the widespread use of technology to the West Coast, the registered workforce has increased by 32 percent. In 2015, it negotiated a five-year contract with the ILWU.

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