Transportation

Cuts to BC Ferries service to Prince Rupert will have far-reaching consequences for all of northern British Columbia, said the port city's mayor.

Members of the Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers’ Association (VCTA) voted March 8 to reject a tentative agreement with Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) that had been reached March 6 with the involvement of labour mediator Vince Ready.

The 400 members of a Vancouver container truckers union called off a threatened strike at the eleventh hour yesterday, but approximately 1,000 members of a non-unionized association remain off the job while an agreement is hammered out between the parties.

Vancouver container truckers began meeting with government, Port Metro Vancouver and labour mediator Vince Ready March 6 in hopes of working out a solution to their concerns about wages and wait times.

Canadian Autoworkers Local 111 president Nathan Woods sat down March 3 with Marcella Szel, TransLink’s board chair, to discuss cuts and the referendum.

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In an attempt to get striking truckers back on the job, Port Metro Vancouver and the British Columbia Trucking Association (BCTA) have released an eight-point plan they say addresses many of the concerns raised by truckers.

Vancouver Island residents will find travel to the United States that much easier beginning March 3, now that Nanaimo Airport has begun offering a flight service to Seattle.

The situation at Vancouver's port is set to heat up this week after unionized container truckers voted unanimously to join non-unionized truckers in a strike.