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TRUCKERS' STRIKE * Canada: Port Metro Vancouver
* British Columbia - Drayage sector warns of strike at Port Metro Vancouver
Vancouver,BC,Canada -JOC.com, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Jul 22, 2014: -- The union representing about 400 harbor truck drivers at Port Metro Vancouver has given Canadian officials until July 30 to enforce government-mandated pay rates for drivers, or face another possible trucker strike at Canada’s largest port... McGarrigle met Monday to discuss what he termed trucking companies’ widespread violation of the new trucking rates announced in March by federal mediator Vince Ready. Representatives of the more than 1,000 non-unionized drivers in Vancouver were also at the meeting... The rates negotiated by Ready increased driver wages by 12 percent and doubled the fuel surcharge, which trucking companies must pass along to the drivers. It was negotiation of those rate increases that convinced both unionized and non-unionized drivers to call off a month-long strike that had crippled the Pacific Coast port... However, more than three months later, many harbor trucking companies are still not adhering to the rate increases, McGarrigle said...
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