The federal NDP, a left-leaning opposition party that traditionally enjoys union backing, has been helping Trudeau's minority government pass legislation. The leader of the official federal opposition Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, earlier said Trudeau should come up with a plan to end the strike within 24 hours, but did not say whether he would support back-to-work legislation. Legislation forcing workers back to their posts was favored by the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.īut David Eby, the left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) premier of British Columbia, said passing such legislation would take too long and urged the two sides "to sort it out at the table as quickly as possible." Ministers, he added, were exploring all options. "My patience has run out," Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told reporters when asked whether the government would pass back-to-work legislation, a politically tricky move. The walkout is estimated to have disrupted C$6.5 billion ($4.9 billion) of cargo movement at the ports, based on the industry body Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters' calculation of about C$500 million in disrupted trade each day. The employers association accused the union of "holding the Canadian economy hostage." On Tuesday the ILWU leadership rejected a tentative four-year contract deal agreed with employers less than a week ago that ended a 13-day strike. A Reuters witness said there was no sign of pickets at Vancouver's port on Wednesday. Some 7,500 dock workers have been picketing the two ports almost non-stop since July 1. The union responded by issuing a new 72-hour strike notice, an ILWU official told Reuters by phone, before that notice was later revoked.
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