The union representing about 7,400 workers in the ongoing British Columbia port labour dispute has issued a letter to employers, outlining what it is looking for in a new collective agreement while saying it is committed to negotiating a resolution.
The letter comes a day after federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan announced he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine if a negotiated deal is still possible in the dispute and, if not, to impose an agreement or final binding arbitration on the two sides.
The union says employers must "regulate the extent of maintenance work that can be contracted out" and provide more "joint efforts" and "open feedback" with workers to improve employees' safety and well-being. O'Regan said in his statement Saturday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's July 19 decision to meet with the incident response group — a move typically reserved for moments of national crisis — showed "the Government is prepared for all options and eventualities."
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