The port has also committed to ending a lawsuit it filed against the truckers and renew suspended licences, so long as those suspensions didn't involve suspected criminal activity. Under the proposal, regulated wages would increase within a month, followed by a full review of wages and fuel-surcharge rates by next year. The governments and the port released details of the 14-point proposal Thursday evening. The United Truckers' Association of B.C., which represents the non-unionized workers, did not return repeated calls seeking comment. McGarrigle declined to discuss his specific concerns, but he said the union had requested a meeting with federal officials for Friday afternoon. "I think we'll have some serious pointed questions." "There are a lot of questions that need to be answered in this document, and there are also some glaring holes," McGarrigle said in an interview. Gavin McGarrigle of Unifor, which represents the unionized truckers, suggested the governments' proposal, as delivered, may not be enough. Roughly 400 unionized truckers went on strike earlier in the week, joining more than a thousand non-unionized truck drivers who walked off the job last month. VANCOUVER - Vancouver's port remained crippled by a truckers strike Friday, as union officials refused to say if they were prepared to agree to a government-backed proposal aimed at ending the dispute.Ī day after the federal and British Columbia government's released a proposal designed to allay the drivers' concerns, it was unclear whether the strike, which the prime minister warned is threatening the country's economy, was any closer to a resolution.
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