BC port employers are set to move ahead with locking out more than 700 foremen across the province after their union began job action this morning. The BC Maritime Employers Association says the lockout will begin on the 4:30 PM shift, though it will not affect grain or cruise operations.
The lockout comes after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 commenced “industry-wide strike activity” at the employers’ terminals located along BC’s coast from Victoria and Vancouver up to the Alaskan border. The union says its members went to work this morning, but an overtime ban had been implemented, and workers would also refuse to participate in technological change as part of what it described as “limited job action.”
The post BC port employers to lock out over 700 foremen amid union job action appeared first on RED 89.1FM / 93.1FM Vancouver.