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Canada orders end to port labor disruptions on two coasts

Canada's labor minister on Tuesday ordered operations to resume at Pacific and Atlantic coast ports shut down by labor disputes that halted Can$1.3 billion in daily shipments. Canada orders end to port labor disruptions on two coasts Steve MacKinnon, the minister, said deadlocked negotiations at the ports of Montreal and Vancouver that go as far back as two years would …

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Canada moves to end port lockouts and orders binding arbitration

OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada’s labor minister said Tuesday he is intervening to end lockouts of workers at the country’s two biggest ports. Labor Minister Steven Mackinnon said the negotiations have reached an impasse and he is directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations at the ports of Vancouver and Montreal and move the talks …

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Canada orders binding arbitration to end port lockout

With the lockouts, $930m of goods are being affected daily, affecting supply chains and local economy, the government says. Minister of Labour Steven Mackinnon said on Tuesday that the negotiations had reached an impasse and he was directing the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the resumption of all operations at the ports of Vancouver and Montreal and move the …

Canada Port Lockouts Back Trudeau Government Into a Corner Again

-- Business groups are urging Justin Trudeau’s government to put an end to labor strife at Canada’s largest ports, as it did with railways in August, to avoid chaos in the country’s supply chains. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference is mounting a court challenge, saying the government’s actions in the railway dispute set a dangerous precedent by violating workers’ constitutional …