New tentative deal is reached in B.C. port workers dispute
The two sides involved in a labour dispute affecting about 7,400 port workers in British Columbia say they’ve reached a new tentative deal.
A joint statement from the union and the employers association offered no details on the new deal but said both sides “are recommending ratification of the collective agreement to the union’s membership and member employers respectively.” The previous tentative deal halted that strike, but since then the fate of any agreement has see-sawed wildly, with union leaders rejecting the deal on July 19 and briefly sending workers back to pickets, before that move was deemed illegal by the industrial relations board.
Before the new agreement was reached, union president Rob Ashton said in a letter Sunday that workers looked “forward to resuming discussions and finding common ground for the betterment of the Canadian supply chain and the livelihoods of its workforce.”
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