A team of employees that manage jet gas utilized at the Vancouver International Airport (YVR) might go on strike as early as Tuesday.
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 502 claims it offered a strike notification on Friday to the employees’ company, SGS Canada.
Rob Ashton, head of state of ILWU Canada, stated the 11 recently arranged employees are looking for pay boosts, pension plan advantages and severance bundles as component of their initial cumulative arrangement.
The employees discharge gas from ships prior to transferring it to the airport terminal. According to Ashton, this is just one of a number of manner ins which YVR obtains gas.
He stated the employees are paid simply over the living 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 stated.
The union has actually been bargaining with SGS Canada given that June and has actually remained in talks with a government arbitrator given that September, however Ashton stated points broke short near completion of last 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 stated.
“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 connected to SGS Canada and YVR for remark however did not promptly listen to back.
