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Union Pact Approved Despite Local Opposition: Official results of the recent vote by the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union approving a new three-year contract show that the pact was decisively voted down by the union’s biggest longshore unit, Wilmington-based Local 13. The local, representing longshoremen at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, rejected the contract by more than a 2-1 margin. Longshoremen at San Francisco’s Local 10 also rejected the pact, which provides for pay increases totaling 13% for three years, by a similar margin. But, as previously reported, strong support from most of the 8,400-member longshore division’s other locals from Bellingham, Wash., to San Diego gave the contract a winning 62.3% majority in a decisive second vote.