| Article I. Scope of Agreement |
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ARTICLE I SCOPE OF AGREEMENT Section 1. Management. The multiemployer Management group bound to the Master Contract consists of the carriers, stevedores, marine terminal operators, and port associations that are members of USMX; the carriers, stevedores, and marine terminal operators that are members of the port associations that are members of USMX; and the carriers, stevedores, and marine terminal operators that hereafter become members of USMX or hereafter subscribe to this Master Contract as well as those carriers and other employers bound hereto by operation of law. 1 Section 2. Recognition. Management recognizes the ILA as the exclusive bargaining representative of longshoremen, clerks, checkers, and maintenance employees who are employed on ships and terminals in all ports on the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States, inclusive from Maine to Texas, and the ILA recognizes USMX as the exclusive employer representative in such ports on Master Contract issues. Section 3. Complete Labor Agreement. This Master Contract is a full and complete agreement on all Master Contract issues relating to the employment of longshore employees on container and ro-ro vessels and container and ro-ro terminals in all ports from Maine to Texas at which ships of USMX carriers and carriers that are subscribers to this Master Contract may call. This Master Contract as supplemented by local bargaining constitutes a complete and operative labor agreement. Section 4. Local Bargaining. The port associations which are bound by this Master Contract will engage in local negotiations on those bargaining subjects left open to local negotiations by USMX and ILA. Local agreements must be consistent with and will supplement the terms and conditions of the Master Contract in the local ports covered by this Master Contract. |