The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada says it will hold a meeting Tuesday to recommend the terms of a tentative agreement to its membership. The development may end the labour dispute between the union and the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association, which shut down the province’s port facilities for 13 days earlier this month….

Leaders of labour federations across Canada are warning the federal government not to introduce any back-to-work legislation to force striking British Columbia port workers to return to their jobs, saying that any such attempt will be met with “strong resistance.” Canadian Labour Congress President Bea Bruske and her provincial and territorial counterparts sent a jointly…

The B.C. port workers strike could cost companies hundreds of millions of dollars per week, experts and business groups say, with smaller operators and consumers feeling the biggest pinch. Industry organizations say the job action by 7,400 waterfront employees that began Saturday will back up shipments, deplete inventories and boost prices on goods in shorter…

Talks have stalled between the union representing thousands of B.C. port workers who began striking over the Canada Day long weekend and the group representing their employers, with both sides calling each other unreasonable in their negotiations. The stall sends the strike into its fourth day after port workers initially walked off the job on July…