Employer bargaining agent and payroll administrator for West Coast ports
Pacific Maritime Association negotiates and administers longshore labor contracts for shipping lines, stevedores and terminal operators across California, Oregon and Washington ports. Its stack is almost entirely Oracle (EBS, HCM Cloud, Payroll, Financials, Exadata, RAC, APEX), a sign that payroll and benefits administration run on a mature on-prem-plus-cloud Oracle core. Current senior HR hiring centers on longshore automation and a new technology framework.
Notable leadership hires: Assistant Director
Pacific Maritime Association is a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation founded in 1949 and headquartered in San Francisco. It acts as a multi-employer collective bargaining agent for roughly 72 shipping lines, stevedore companies and marine terminal operators at West Coast ports. Its core work is negotiating and administering labor contracts with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union, along with handling payroll and certain benefits for members. The association employs 51–200 people and runs area offices in Long Beach, Port Hueneme, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma.
PMA negotiates and administers labor contracts with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union for about 72 member shipping lines, stevedores and terminal operators, and administers payroll and certain benefits.
PMA runs a largely Oracle environment: Oracle Database, EBS, HCM Cloud, Payroll, Financials, Exadata, RAC, WebLogic and APEX with PL/SQL, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with VMware and Nutanix infrastructure.
PMA is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with area offices in Long Beach, Port Hueneme, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma.
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