BOSTON SHIPPING ASSOCIATION

The Boston Shipping Association, Inc (BSA) is a trade association representing steamship owners, agents, stevedores, terminal operators, and service organizations and is committed on their behalf to working with the waterfront labor they employ and industry stakeholders to ensure stability for workers and economic prosperity for the Port of Boston, Massachusetts, and the New England region... Incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1946, the Association, commonly known as "BSA" was founded to administer the newly-created fringe benefits coming into Union contracts for the first time. With a diverse membership of firms comprising those steamship owners, agents, stevedores, terminal operators, and service organizations who employ waterfront labor, years of trial and progress led to the first modern longshore contracts in 1968 which established grievance procedures with fixed arbitration provisions, a successful Union-run Hiring Hall, and confirmed the joint..

Also known as: Boston Shipping Association, Inc, The Boston Shipping Association, Inc.

Primary location: Charlestown United States