B.C. port strike ends as workers vote to accept new deal | CBC News

Posted: Aug 04, 2023 10:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

No details on the provisions of the deal have been released, but according to the BCMEA, the new agreement includes increased wages, benefits and training for workers along with provisions to ensure labour stability at ports in the future. The approval averts further federal intervention to end the dispute, which shut down more than 30 port terminals and other sites from July 1 to 13, including Canada's busiest, the port of Vancouver.

Union leaders have said workers' key concerns relate to automation and the contracting out of maintenance work, both of which present fundamental challenges to the future of port jobs. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada's strike caused a 13-day shutdown of more than 30 ports in B.C., including Canada's largest, the Port of Vancouver, in July.A previous tentative deal halted the first strike, but since then the fate of any agreement has see-sawed wildly, with union leaders rejecting the deal and briefly sending workers back to pickets on July 18, before that move was deemed illegal by the CIRB the next day.

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