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Fed rule * Canada - Mandates union-like rates for container owner-ops
The federal government is attempting to maintain labor stability at the Port of Vancouver and Fraser River with a regulation that ensures independent owner-operators are compensated no less than the rates set out in the Memorandum of Agreement by mediator Vince ReadyOttawa,Canada -Today's Trucking -1 Aug 2007: -- ... The MOU, which expires in August, was drafted by Ready in 2005 to end the crippling six-week strike by 1,200 independent container haulers. In the guideline, Ready established a base pay structure and other surcharges carrier companies had to pay their contracted operators... Carriers were forced to sign on to the agreement in order to get a mandated port operating licence issued and enforced by the Vancouver Port Authority... (Ottawa has introduced a regulation that adjusts independent container truckers' rates to union contracts)
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