DockBook is expanding to support USMX-ILA contracts. ILA Locals from Boston to Houston, Tampa to Norfolk. Same auto-calculated earnings, pension projections, and live peer averages, built around your master contract. Join the waitlist for launch updates.
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What East and Gulf Coast support will include
Everything BC and West Coast longshore workers already get, retooled for the USMX-ILA Master Contract.
USMX-ILA wage scale
Auto-calculated earnings using the current Master Contract scale, OT premiums, container royalty, and skill differentials.
MILA pension projections
Project your benefit from logged hours under the Management-ILA Pension Plan. See vesting status and target retirement age.
Local-specific support
From Boston (Local 799) to Houston (Local 24) to Charleston (Local 1422). Local rules, local rates, local averages.
Guaranteed Annual Income
GAI hours tracker with weekly qualification flags. Know if you're trending toward your hours floor before payroll catches up.
Live average hours
Same Live Average Hours feature loved by BCMEA + PMA workers. Stack against peers in your local, your tier, and your port.
Vessel intel feed
Same community feed, expanded to East + Gulf coast vessels. Tips and warnings from longshoremen who've actually worked her.
Background
The USMX-ILA Master Contract covers longshore workers at every major container port on the United States East Coast and Gulf Coast. The agreement is between the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents the carriers, terminal operators, and stevedoring companies, and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), which represents the workforce. It's the East and Gulf Coast equivalent of what the PCLCD is for ILWU-PMA on the West Coast.
The current Master Contract was reached in early 2025, ending a multi-month negotiation that included a brief strike in October 2024. It runs through September 2030. Like every multi-year longshore agreement, it sets wage scales, overtime rules, container royalty, jurisdictional protections, and benefit contributions that locals layer their own rules on top of.
ILA members work under the Master Contract from Maine to Texas. Most members are in the major container locals: New York / New Jersey (Locals 1804-1, 1814, 1, 824, and others), Boston (Local 799), Baltimore (Local 333), Hampton Roads (Locals 1248, 970), Wilmington NC (Local 1426), Charleston (Local 1422), Savannah (Local 1414), Jacksonville (Local 1408), Tampa (Local 1402), Mobile (Local 1410), New Orleans (Local 3000), and Houston (Local 24). Smaller locals serve cruise terminals, breakbulk facilities, and warehouse operations across the same coast.
What makes the contract complex from a pay-tracking perspective: container royalty distributions are tied to TEU volume and paid out of a separate Master Contract fund, MILA pension and welfare contributions are reported separately from base wages, and several local supplements ride on top of the Master rate at terminal level. A general-purpose timesheet app can't get any of that right. That's the job DockBook is built for.
When is this happening?
DockBook ships when the math is right, not when the timeline says. The BCMEA and PMA versions took months of contract reading to get the rates exactly right. ILA support will get the same treatment. If you join the waitlist, you'll hear from us when the first beta is ready, plus once or twice in between if there's something worth telling you. Otherwise, silence.
In the meantime, if you're an ILA member who wants to see the Canadian / West Coast versions in action, the existing app on iOS and Android shows what's coming. DockBook for BCMEA and DockBook for PMA are both live now.