B.C. port strike enters day five, with talks deadlocked over maintenance
morning, leading business organizations as well as officials in both Alberta and Saskatchewan to call on Ottawa to step in.
“ILWU Canada is attempting to aggressively expand their scope and redefine regular maintenance work far beyond what is set out in the industry-wide agreement, which has been legally well established for decades,” it said Tuesday. Dreeshen said he’s frustrated the strike has continued, particularly because Ottawa used legislation in 2021 to end a walkout by Port of Montreal dock workers after one day.
Hartley Witten, a spokesman for the minister’s office, said the primary difference between the situation in Montreal and the current strike is that there was an eight-month truce between the parties in Montreal before the strike. Jeremy Harrison, Saskatchewan’s minister of trade and export development, said Tuesday that shippers in that province have warned the strike is already slowing down the flow of goods, and the current work stoppage will have long-lasting effects on the supply chain.
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