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Aug 5, 2014

TRUCKERS COMPLAINS * Canada

* BC - Frustrated Port of Metro Vancouver truckers want government to push companies to comply

Vancouver,BC,CAN -The Canadian Press - 22 July 2014: -- Drivers servicing the country’s largest port urged government on Monday to take swift action against trucking companies, which they say aren’t living up to a deal hammered out last spring to end a strike... More than 1,600 union and non-unionized truckers for Port Metro Vancouver went back to work in late March after negotiating an action plan that promised to improve job conditions... Three months later they’re still not getting paid what’s owed, say representatives who met with two levels of government to request an order-in-council making rates legal and binding for workers across the sector... The truckers say other issues that have yet to be resolved include an oversupply of trucks in the industry, truck licensing problems and a concern the auditing system is not independent from the port... But they also say some improvements have been made, including the payment of more than $1 million in waiting fees and the outfitting of fleets with GPS systems...

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