VANCOUVER — Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice.
The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a formal notice that it will"defensively" lock out members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 starting Monday at 9 a.m.
Local 514 president Frank Morena, meanwhile, says in a release that workers had only planned to"engage in limited job action" through an overtime ban and a refusal to implement tech change, and it was the employers who"completely overreacted" by threatening a"full-scale lockout." The union is also accusing the employers of not showing on for negotiations on Thursday, the last scheduled day of mediated talks this week, while also failing to notify others that they would not be participating.
"We did not arrive to this decision lightly," the employers association says in its statement announcing the lockout."This regretful action follows thorough consideration of ILWU Local 514’s continued intransigence and their provocative decision to proceed with another strike notice."
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