Unions and environmentalists team up in bid to sink B.C. port expansion project via NatObserver
Port expansion may be the biggest job creator, “but we don't do it at any cost,” said Ashton., Duncan Wilson, the port authority’s vice-president of environmental and external affairs, said the union was communicating “false statements” about terminal automation and said Roberts Bank Terminal 2 “would generate tens of thousands of well-paying supply chain jobs.”
Once the project is operational, it will create more than 17,300 jobs per year and $3 billion in GDP annually, said Wilson. He also noted that the port authority does not operate terminals and that an operator will ultimately decide the “final configuration” for the terminal. Ashton maintains that the federal government should have extended the approval process so that three other port expansion projects could be considered alongside the Roberts Bank proposal.a new contract with the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association after its old one expired in March. One of the biggest points of tension — other than wage increases — is the automation of equipment used to move and handle cargo.
“We warned the federal government when they were going through the decision-making process that the approval of RBT2 was going to affect bargaining,” Ashton told reporters. “It's now what? 10 o’clock? A little bit after that ... I was supposed to be at the bargaining table at nine o'clock this morning. But here today, right now, I'm here with our allies defending our job, and it's affecting bargaining.
Speakers from left to right: David Bradley, director of Birds Canada; Rob Ashton, national president of the
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