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 1, causing business groups across Canada to raise alarm about the strike’s potential economic impact.
The strike involving more than 7,400 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU) began after federally regulated talks between the union and the BC Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA), which represents almost 50 of B.C.’s private-sector waterfront employers, failed to yield a resolution on a new labour agreement….