Labour minister says job action at B.C., Montreal ports having significant impact on Canada
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is intervening to end the work stoppages at ports in both British Columbia and Montreal.
“Negotiated agreements are the best way forward, but we must not allow other Canadians to suffer when certain parties do not fulfil their responsibility to reach an agreement,” MacKinnon said in a statement announcing the decision. The job action came after port workers in British Columbia were locked out last week amid a labour dispute involving more than 700 longshore supervisors, resulting in a paralysis of container cargo traffic at terminals on the West Coast.MacKinnon said he hopes operations at the ports can be restored in a matter of days.
She said this mechanism allows the government to evade the process of passing back-to-work legislation, meaning they don’t have to rely on the support of other parties. “Continual reliance upon binding arbitration may make it more difficult for the parties to actually reach their own negotiated settlements in the future,” she said.At a press conference Tuesday morning, MacKinnon said he doesn’t take lightly the decision to intervene in the collective bargaining process, but the negotiations were all at an impasse without an immediate way forward. That made the duration of the stoppage unclear and created real economic risk, he said.
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