{"id":58805,"date":"2021-07-29T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58805"},"modified":"2021-07-29T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T11:59:07","slug":"canada-border-officers-vote-to-strike-warn-of-supply-chain-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58805","title":{"rendered":"Canada border officers vote to strike, warn of supply chain disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/canada-border-officers-vote-to-strike-warn-of-supply-chain-disruption\">Canada border officers vote to strike, warn of supply chain disruption<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-sub-title\"><strong>Labor action could begin Aug. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2300px) 100vw, 2300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626.jpeg 2300w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/s29755.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cbsastrikecontainers0626-390x220.jpeg 390w\" alt=\"Canada Border Services Agency officers prepare to inspect a red intermodal container.\" width=\"2300\" height=\"1294\" \/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\">\u00a0A strike by CBSA officers could impact operations at Canada&#8217;s ports. (Photo: Canada Border Services Agency)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-above-post-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"speechkit-container\"><iframe id=\"speechkit-io-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/spkt.io\/a\/2401515\" height=\"40px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/spkt.io\/a\/2401515\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Thousands of Canada Border Services Agency personnel have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike \u2013 something that could throw a wrench into port, cross-border trucking, airfreight and international parcel operations.<\/p>\n<p>The strike could happen as early as Aug. 6, the Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Customs and Immigration Union\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/psacunion.ca\/thousands-canada-border-service-agency-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said on Tuesday<\/a>. The union represents some 8,500 CBSA employees, including officers serving at ports of entry across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of a strike comes as Canada prepares to reopen its land border to nonessential travel for the first time since March 2020. The timing wasn\u2019t lost on the union, which warned that a strike could lead to \u201csignificant disruption to the flow of goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The impacts could bring delays to commercial vehicle traffic and impact parcel deliveries and duties collection, the union said.<\/p>\n<p>CBSA officers serving in essential positions are legally barred from striking. But\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightwaves.com\/news\/canada-border-officers-mull-strike-at-critical-time-for-supply-chain\">as American Shipper reported<\/a>, the legal definition of essential is narrow in scope and doesn\u2019t include collection of duties and taxes, according to a federal tribunal ruling.The Port of Vancouver appears particularly vulnerable as it contends with an unprecedented level of container ship traffic. As the largest port in Canada, any disruption there could have impacts throughout the country and intermodal rail and trucking operations.<\/p>\n<p>The union members have been without a contract since 2018 and are seeking pay parity with other Canadian law enforcement agencies and protections against what they allege is a toxic workplace culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada border officers vote to strike, warn of supply chain disruption Labor action could begin Aug. 6 \u00a0A strike by CBSA officers could impact operations at Canada&#8217;s ports. (Photo: Canada Border Services Agency) Thousands of Canada Border Services Agency personnel have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike \u2013 something that could throw a wrench into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11054,103,31551,31553,31552,31550,3237],"class_list":["post-58805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-border-control","tag-canada","tag-canadian-border","tag-freight-waves","tag-labour-strike","tag-nate-tabak","tag-supply-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58806,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58805\/revisions\/58806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}