4月23日付カスタマーサービス部ニュース第27号で、弊社USA現地法人から寄せられたVancouver
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労働争議自体は、解決に向けて動き出す方向にあるとのことで、カナダ向け等に関係するお客様に
とりましては必要な情報と存じます。
なお、詳細は下記の通りです。
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By Courtney Tower - The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINE-
Tug boat operators have accepted a federal mediator's contract proposal
and were awaiting
a response by employers that could end their week-long strike that
has crippled the Port of
Vancouver (schedules).
Canada's federal labor minister, Claudette Bradshaw, told Parliament
today that the Canadian
Merchant Service Guild representing 800 striking tug boat masters and
crew had accepted the
collective agreement offered by federal mediator Bill Lewis.
Details of the pact have not been disclosed.
The union was ready to return to work immediately if the employers,
represented by the
Council of Marine Carriers, also agreed, she said.
"The minister is at the moment awaiting the employers' response, and she urges them to also
accept.", said Denis D'Amour, Bradshaw's spokesman, at 11:30 a.m.
local time.
Lewis had set a 4:30 p.m. deadline for both sides to respond to his
recommendations. Parliament
could order the union back to work if employers don't accept the offer.
The deadline was announced Thursday when negotiations reached an impasse.
The union is seeking increases in wages andbenefits of as much as 17 percent over three years,
while employers were offering an increase of about 13.5 percent.
A coalition of British Columbia business leaders held a public meeting Thursday calling for the
government to end the strike they claimed was costing the provincial economy about C$85 million
(US$62 million) a day. They said the Port of Vancouver and nearby Fraser
Surrey Docks were
losing traffic to ports in the United States, that all 10 pulp and
paper mills along the B.C. coast
would have to close by the weekend, and that up to 80 percent of all
coastal logging would have to
shut down by the middle of next week.
"It's a devastating situation," Anne McMullin, chief spokesperson
for the Vancouver Port Authority,
told local media, with 80 percent of coal traffic and two-thirds of
container shipments shut down.
She said the port is losing about 4,000 containers, or about US$3.04
million, each day.
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