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The mercurial events of the BC Port Strike may soon finally find some closure,.
That coming out of the latest development that of review of a tentative deal, the second attempt for such, for the International Longhshore and Warehouse Umiom Caucus, which will do that today in what has been described as an emergency contact caucus.
Depending on that review, the contract proposal could be forwarded to the membership over the weekend.
The word of the plan of action came from a statement from a local in the Vancouver area on Thursday.
Neither the ILWU national office, or the British Columbian Marine Employers Association have issued a comment related to the current state of negotiations.
The Federal Government as well has not released any statements related to the return of the agreement for the review of the ILWU caucus. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister had called a session of the Incident Response Group, which is used only towards concerning situations.
As of yet, the Prime Minister has not shared what decisions, if any, that body had come up with towards the labour dispute.
There have also been no details to come out yet towards what, if any changes were made towards version 2 from the original agreement which was reached one week ago.
Port workers returned to their jobs following a ruling from the Canada Industrial Relations Board earlier this week that declared their walkout an illegal one.
Update: 1 PM Friday -- ILWU Caucus prepares to send contract for review of membership on Monday morning. ILWU advisory followed by a short statement from the BCMEA
Some of the past notes along the road to the latest announcement can be explored from our archive page.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review.
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