Union’s ‘no vote’ on contract proposal reflects strong negotiating hand, stirs shipper fears of strike Unionized mail carriers at Canada Post have overwhelmingly voted to reject the company’s latest contract offer, raising questions about the potential for a strike or lockout that could further undermine delivery service and whether the government considers the troubled organization…
LONDON/HOUSTON/CALGARY, July 29 (Reuters) – Shell-led LNG Canada is experiencing technical problems as it ramps up production at its liquefied natural gas plant at Kitimat, with one LNG tanker diverting away from the facility without the super-chilled fuel in recent days, according to four sources and LSEG ship tracking data. The plant is the first major LNG export…
Operations remain suspended until Unifor members vote for new contract DHL Express Canada and striking workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, according to the Unifor union, raising stakeholder hopes the national courier will soon be able to resume operations. Unifor, which represents more than 2,100 DHL Express truck and van drivers,…
By Curtis Williams HOUSTON, June 22 (Reuters) – The Shell-led SHEL.L LNG Canada project has produced the first liquefied natural gas for export from its facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, two people familiar with the startup of the plant told Reuters on Sunday. “At 4 a.m. local time LNG Canada started producing its first LNG,” one of the sources told Reuters. …
New law makes it illegal for company to use replacement workers DHL Express will stop accepting shipments headed to Canada and for export at 9 p.m. on Tuesday as its Canadian subsidiary prepares to suspend operations Friday amid an escalating labor dispute. DHL Express Canada brought in replacement workers after locking out 2,100 independent drivers, warehouse…
Intervention intended to bypass union chiefs as negotiations reach impasse Canada Post late Friday asked the federal government to conduct a vote of unionized mail carriers on its latest contract proposal after leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) publicly trashed management’s offer. The postal operator urged the minister of jobs and families to…
The last hope for a negotiated agreement between the Canadian Maritime Employers Association (MEA) and Montréal Longshoremen’s Union Local 375 is that both parties must submit to arbitration. The dispute between the port workers and their employers began last September in a bid to increase the dockworkers’ benefits, such as pay, pension, and holidays. Since…
Trump’s trade war has provoked “total hatred” north of the border, with Canada’s PM vowing to support a diversification of trade away from the US Having called for an election, Canada’s newly installed prime minister and Liberal Party leader Mark Carney has pledged to fund to the tune of C$5bn ($3.5bn) what he is calling…
By Todd Woody Mar 29 (Bloomberg) -International regulators on Friday condemned a seabed mining company’s move to circumvent their authority by seeking the Trump administration’s approval to extract critical minerals from untouched ocean ecosystems. The Metals Company (TMC) on Thursday said it had initiated a process to obtain a US government license to mine metals used in green technologies from a region…
Following nine weeks of consecutive declines in spot freight rates on the transpacific, carriers are finally beginning to pull capacity from the trade. Yesterday, MSC announced six transpacific sailings to be blanked, starting with next week’s sailing on theChinook service that links the Far East with Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Seattle/Tacoma, operated with eight vessels…
