Another paralysis at Metro Vancouver ports a possibility: truckers
Posted July 22, 2014 10:27 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Truckers in Metro Vancouver are going all the way to the top with their frustrations over their employers.
About 1,600 unionized and non-unionized truck drivers say their employers still haven’t honoured a 14-point plan that was created to stop the last strike.
“We had a very frank discussion with the provincial and federal transportation ministers,” says Gavin McGarrigle with Unifor. “We pointed out that a deal is a deal and the meat and potatoes of the deal hasn’t been realized int he time frame that was agreed to.”
He tells us the situation now is unworkable.
“These trucking companies’ wild west tactics just have to come to an end. They’re thumbing their nose at the action plan they seem to think that they’re accountable to no one. Yet, there’s tens of thousands of people who rely on the port.”
McGarrigle adds the truckers are willing to wait for the full deal to be implemented, but not for too much longer.