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“Prudential and Aheer’s largest competitor at Harbour Link can afford to treat Unifor members fairly and all of these drivers play a critical role in the supply chain of the lower mainland,” said Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor’s western regional director, in a release. Unifor believes a strike would threaten Canada’s overall port stability even further, but is necessary because it says business at both companies is booming, creating room to compensate workers accordingly. The shift in transport has left the Port of Vancouver with a high number of cargo ships anchored and hampered from unloading.
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The extreme weather left several of the province’s key transit arteries underwater, impacted railways and caused companies to increasingly turn to the skies and waterways for shipping goods. Unifor estimates the strike would impact about 170 trucks or about 10 per cent of the vehicles servicing the Port of Vancouver, which has been in the spotlight since mid-November storms flooded many transport routes in B.C. The workers are requesting better health, dental, and insurance benefits for all drivers, along with increased payments for time spent waiting for their trucks to be loaded and unloaded. Labour union Unifor says it has told Aheer Transportation and Prudential Transportation that almost 200 of their drivers will walk off the job later this week, if they aren’t offered better employment terms. B.C.’s already hobbled supply chain could encounter another setback this week, if container truck drivers at two companies serving the Port of Vancouver follow through with a plan to strike on Friday.