Both sides within the ongoing British Columbia port strike must resolve at the moment whether or not to simply accept phrases of a settlement really helpful by a federal mediator that will finish the 13-day-old industrial motion.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada and the B.C. Maritime Employers Association got 24 hours to evaluation the suggestions ordered by federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan, and resolve if the deal is appropriate.
About 7,400 staff have been on strike since July 1, halting shipments out and in of about 30 ports in B.C., together with Canada’s largest, the Port of Vancouver.
The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says there are 63,000 transport containers caught on vessels ready at B.C. ports to be unloaded, and that quantity might balloon to 245,000 if the strike persists to the tip of July.
O’Regan has mentioned the hole between the union and the employers’ affiliation is “not sufficient to justify a continued work stoppage.”
Western premiers who have been at a gathering of provincial and territorial leaders in Winnipeg this week have been unanimous that the dispute must be resolved.
