For the second time in just over a week a tentative deal may have been reached in the labour dispute at British Columbia ports. News of a possible agreement capped a tumultuous week in the conflict, which earlier this month froze billions of dollars’ worth of goods at Canada’s key west coast import and export…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is “dismayed” that an agreement to end the job action at British Columbia’s ports was rejected by the longshore union leadership. Trudeau said Thursday that the union caucus’s decision to reject a federal mediator’s tentative deal that was agreed to at the bargaining table, putting them back…

British Columbia port employers say the longshore workers union has given 72-hour notice of renewed strike action across the province starting on Saturday morning. The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association said in a statement that resuming the strike action that had halted cargo movement for 13 days at the start of the month is “unnecessary…

A logistics researcher says it should take only days for cargo flow to return to pre-strike levels at B.C. ports after a 13-day work stoppage ended with a tentative deal. But Simon Fraser University Prof. Peter V. Hall says the port employers need to work with the union on significant long-term “structural changes” such as…

Railways suffered a sharp drop-off in container shipments this month as the strike by B.C. port workers — now poised to end after a tentative deal Thursday — halted more than half of steel-box cargo. Canadian National Railway Co.’s revenue ton miles—a key industry metric used to gauge income and freight volume—fell 60 percent in…

A source close to negotiations over the British Columbia port strike says both sides have received the terms of a settlement recommended by a federal mediator that could end the 12-day-old industrial action. The delivery of the terms comes after Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan late Tuesday instructed the mediator to send him the terms…

Business and government are responding favourably to a possible breakthrough in the 12-day strike that has shut down all ports along the British Columbia coast. Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has given a federal mediator 24 hours to send him recommendations to end the dispute between the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and…

Nutrien Ltd. said it has curtailed production at its Cory potash mine due the port workers strike in Vancouver that is also raising concerns from businesses nationwide. The fertilizer producer said Tuesday that the strike has meant the loss of export capacity through Canpotex’s Neptune terminal. It says that if the work stoppage continues it…

Striking British Columbia dock workers and their employer held a round of bargaining over the weekend, the first since negotiations collapsed one week ago, but neither side is saying when, or if, more talks are planned. About 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada have been on strike since July 1, idling…

Striking port workers will rally near the Vancouver waterfront to mark their sixth day on the picket line as they seek a new contract with the BC Maritime Employers Association. About 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have been off the job since Canada Day to back demands for improved wages and…