The vote would have created the largest union in American history, with 3.3 million members.
Its 17,000 members make it the largest union in the state.
One large union medical plan almost shut down last month because of debt.
In September 2003, a 4% pay cut was agreed to by the city's largest union.
By the late 1970s it was the largest British union, with over 700,000 members.
With 70,000 members, Local 1199 is among the city's largest unions.
In the largest union local at the port, the average is nearly 59.
They decide what the annual interest on these will be, typically 6-7% in a large union.
For the nation's largest union, the risks may never have been greater.
Such a merger would create the nation's largest union by far.