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Port of Montreal’s workers were locked out Sunday and workers in Vancouver on the Pacific Coast have been locked out since Nov. 4. Canada moves to end port lockouts and orders binding ...
Port operations were able to resume on 13 July after the BCMEA announced a tentative agreement with the ILWU had been reached. Seamus O'Regan said, "the strike is over". [8] Picket lines with workers on strike appeared again briefly on 18 July when ILWU leadership voted against the Canada Industrial Relations Board's (CIRB) terms. [8]
If port workers strike, Americans may see price increases soon, experts said. If port workers agree to a deal, “labor costs go up,” Tang said. “So down the road, consumers still pay a higher ...
"Remember, when we had the (General Motors) strike earlier in the year, they kept the strike to one plant at a time. So, GM has 20 plants, they shut down one of them. This one is broad-based, from ...
A massive port strike along the East and Gulf Coasts that kicked off on Tuesday has the potential to become one of America’s most disruptive work stoppages in recent times.. The demands of the ...
The Port of Montreal is Canada's second busiest port of entry with approximately $100 billion worth of goods passing through the port each year. Approximately 1,150 workers are part of CUPE local 375. Working without a contract, CUPE members participated in a series of daytime walkouts during the summer of 2020.
In anticipation of the official start of the strike, workers at the Port of Virginia began systematically halting operations after 8:00 a.m. EST, closing the port gates for truck deliveries at noon, issuing orders for ships to leave the port by 1:00 p.m., and ceasing cargo work at 6 p.m. [6]
"A port strike could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day, hurting American businesses, workers and consumers across the country," Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten said in a ...