A workforce of staff that handle jet fuel utilized on the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) would possibly go on strike as early as Tuesday.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 502 claims it supplied a strike notification on Friday to the workers’ firm, SGS Canada.
Rob Ashton, head of state of ILWU Canada, acknowledged the 11 just lately organized staff are on the lookout for pay boosts, pension plan benefits and severance bundles as part of their preliminary cumulative association.
The staff discharge fuel from ships previous to transferring it to the airport terminal. According to Ashton, this is only one of plenty of method ins which YVR obtains fuel.
He acknowledged the workers are paid merely over the residing wage in Vancouver, which has to do with $27 per hour.
“A lot of these workers have to work two jobs, and when you have an employer that works in international shipping, they should be paying a lot more than the living wage,” Ashton acknowledged.
The union has truly been bargaining with SGS Canada on condition that June and has truly remained in talks with a authorities arbitrator on condition that September, nonetheless Ashton acknowledged factors broke quick close to completion of final month.
“The employer up and walked away from the table, went back to Toronto, and the union’s been asking them through the conciliator to come back to the table to get a deal done,” he acknowledged.
“If they don’t come out of Toronto to get this deal done, then if something happens and if the fuel stops flowing to YVR, it’s on their shoulders because we’re doing everything that we can to get this done.”
CBC News related to SGS Canada and YVR for comment nonetheless didn’t promptly take heed to again.
