* B.C. - Companies that haven’t paid up are ‘playing with fire,’ warns Transportation Minister
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-- At least two companies continue to disregard provincially legislated wage rates established for truckers transporting containers through Port Metro Vancouver following a bitter labour dispute in 2014. And truckers say there are more companies among nearly 100 container trucking firms disregarding the rules... The B.C. government has acknowledged that six companies failed in the first round of audits completed recently by the newly created Office of the B.C. Container Trucking Commissioner... Two firms have refused to pay drivers retroactive rates in a deal reached last year with the province and Ottawa that ended the one-month truckers’ strike, according to the Ministry of Transportation... Mediator Vince Ready was brought in to help find a negotiated resolution, but not before the port received an injunction to prevent truckers blocking access to the port and filing court action against some truckers for disruptive protesting and property destruction... According to Unifor union B.C. area director Gavin McGarrigle — he said drivers are so skeptical that until they see money in their hands, they are not going to believe anything or anyone... Premier Christy Clark called on Ottawa to intervene and then threatened back-to-work legislation...
(Photograph by: Jason Payne, PNG - Hundreds of truckers organized by the United Truckers Association gathered along Highway 99 in Delta on Feb. 26, 2014 to protest rising costs, safety issues and low haulage rates) -- Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN - The Vancouver Sun, by GORDON HOEKSTRA - Oct 23, 2015Labels: truck drivers payment
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