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Troubles - Canada - Canadian Border Work Stoppage Expensive to Trucking
USA -Windsor Star /TTNews -16 Nov 2005: -- A work stoppage by customs inspectors at Windsor, Ontario, border crossings cost Canadian industry up to $850,000 an hour, according to representatives of the trucking and auto parts industries... Ontario Trucking Association President David Bradley said Canada cannot afford work stoppages like the one by 108 customs officers Thursday, which held up traffic at the Ambassador Bridge and the Windsor-Detroit tunnel for up to two-and-a-half hours... He said a dispute between Canada’s Border Services Agency and the Canadian Customs Excise Union over the officers’ safety boiled over at a “major border crossing,” leaving trucks backed up for almost four miles... Bradley said inspectors have walked off the job at the Peace Bridge at Niagara Falls five times over the past five months in the union's ongoing campaign to carry guns, the paper said...
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