B.C. port strike enters day 3 after negotiations fail to reach weekend deal | 24CA News
Talks to finish the B.C. port strike resumed Monday after a 33-hour negotiation interval did not lead to a deal this previous weekend.
Around 7,500 employees from the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Vancouver Island, are on the picket traces for the primary time in three a long time.
The International Longshore Workers Union president Rob Ashton informed Global News that he’s rising annoyed with the delays.
“When all Canadians were asked to stay home and stay safe — our people had to go to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week in unsafe conditions,” he stated Sunday.
“Longshore workers stepped up in this historic time. Our employers gorged themselves on record profits. Now, they seem to have forgotten the sacrifices our people made. (Sunday) they refused to acknowledge those great efforts by our members.”
However, some industries immediately impacted by the port strike consider federal intervention is required as a continued strike may have dire penalties on the Canadian economic system in the long run.
“People often don’t realize how important manufacturing is to our economy,” Andrew Wynn-Willimas with the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters stated Sunday. “Even the western provinces tend to think of us as resource provinces but we have significant manufacturing capability.
“We ship particularly from British Columbia a ton of goods to Asia. About 40 per cent of our exports do not go to the U.S. like the rest of Canada so getting that port back online is a critical issue for a really important sector of our economy.”
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