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Canada’s labor minister says workers at a striking Metro Vancouver grain terminal and their employers have reached a tentative labor agreement.
Steven MacKinnon announced the agreement between Grain Workers Union Local 333 and the Vancouver Terminal Elevators Association in a post on social media platform X, but provided no other details.
The union confirmed the tentative agreement in a statement on Facebook, saying that its members will hold the confirmation vote by October 4.
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The notice from the union also said picket lines would be removed on Saturday and members would return to work pending confirmation, ending the strike which had paralyzed grain shipments from Metro Vancouver port to end.
The dispute had previously led to picket lines going up at six Metro Vancouver grain terminals on Tuesday as about 600 workers went on strike.
Canadian grain producers had urged a resolution in the dispute, noting that about 52 percent of the country’s grain moved through Metro Vancouver terminals last year en route to export.
Farmers say the strike, which occurs during crop harvesting, would result in a loss of as much as $35 million a day in exports.
The Western Grain Elevator Association said on Friday that negotiations had stalled after two days of negotiations this week, with the employer saying it had increased its offers to settle “outstanding issues.”
The employers’ group had said they had reached the end of their “financial ability to reach an agreement that industry can absorb” with the last offer, and it was up to the federally appointed mediator to report the results to MacKinnon for the next steps.
MacKinnon says in his tweet that both sides put in “the work necessary to get a deal done.”
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