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Canada border officers ratify deal for new contract

Canada Border Service Agency officers inside a truck prepare to inspect a container at a port facility.

Canada Border Services Agency officers have overwhelmingly voted to ratify an agreement for a new four-year contract with the Canadian government, their union said on Thursday. 

The vote by Public Service Alliance of Canada-Customs and Immigration Union members paves the way for union leaders and the Treasury Board of Canada to sign the contract in the coming weeks. 

Over 8,000 CBSA personnel staged a daylong work-rule strike — effectively a slowdown — on Aug. 6. It caused extensive delays for...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canada-border-officers-ratify-deal-for-new-contract

Canada border officers begin job action as slowdown hits trucking

An overhead view of trucks preparing to enter Canada via the Peace Bridge border crossing

Thousands of Canada Border Services Agency members began a work-to-rule strike, bringing delays to major truck crossings as talks between the unions and government continue.   

Nearly 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) employees began the work-to-rule strike — effectively a collective slowdown — at ports of entry across the country on Friday morning as delays mounted for trucks at some of the busiest border crossings. 

The job action started at 6 a.m. as talks between the federal...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canada-border-officers-begin-job-action-as-slowdown-hits-trucking

Canada border officers to begin work slowdown

Canada Border Services Agency officers look on as cargo is unloaded from a UPS cargo flight.

Nearly 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) personnel will begin a work-to-rule strike on Friday, their union said, warning that the labor action could have a “dramatic impact to Canada’s supply chain” and imperil the government’s plans to reopen the border to U.S. travelers. 

The Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Customs and Immigration Union issued a work-to rule strike notice on Tuesday and said the labor action will begin at 6 a.m. Friday unless an agreement on a new contract...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canada-border-officers-to-begin-work-slowdown

Canada border officers vote to strike, warn of supply chain disruption

Canada Border Services Agency officers prepare to inspect a red intermodal container.

Thousands of Canada Border Services Agency personnel have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike – something that could throw a wrench into port, cross-border trucking, airfreight and international parcel operations. 

The strike could happen as early as Aug. 6, the Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Customs and Immigration Union said on Tuesday. The union represents some 8,500 CBSA employees, including officers serving at ports of entry across the country. 

The threat of a strike comes...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canada-border-officers-vote-to-strike-warn-of-supply-chain-disruption

Canada border officers mull strike at critical time for supply chain

Three border Canada Border Services on a boat with a ship in the background.

Thousands of members of the Canada Border Services Agency are in the midst of voting on whether to authorize a strike — something that could roil the movement of billions of dollars of goods via its border with the U.S., airports and sea ports. Nowhere more acutely than the Port of Vancouver.

Some 9,000 CBSA employees represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada’s Customs and Immigration Union have been holding strike votes across the country since June 16. The last one happens in Ottawa...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canada-border-officers-mull-strike-at-critical-time-for-supply-chain

Massive opium bust at Port of Vancouver leads to warehouse sting

Pictures of opium seized in a drug bust at the Port of Vancouver.

Seizing nearly $8 million worth of opium found in two shipping containers at Port of Vancouver wasn’t enough for Canadian police and border officers. They swapped out the drugs with a dummy substance and followed the shipment to a warehouse where they arrested five suspects.

Authorities disclosed the operation on Monday, more than six weeks after the Feb. 11 opium bust at Vancouver’s Deltaport — the largest container terminal in Canada — and after months of investigation. There, officers from...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/massive-opium-bust-at-port-of-vancouver-leads-to-warehouse-sting

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