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Many dockworkers told the WSWS they will be voting down the tentative agreement, setting the stage for a fight against the shipping companies, the ILWU bureaucracy that endorsed the deal, and the US government. ....
The Trudeau government has expanded Canada’s participation in the US-NATO war on Russia and committed to hiking military spending by tens of billions of dollars per year, even as it deploys the repressive powers of the capitalist state to break a militant strike by 7,400 West Coast dockers. ....
”The BCMEA group continues to make billions while the hard workers get peanuts. (ILWU Canada President) Rob Ashton sold us out,” one longshore worker told the WSWS. ....
The Ever Safety and the MSC Sara Elena are the first of many ships being diverted from striking ports in Canada to American ports to be unloaded. “It would be a slap in the face if they unload that cargo,” one worker said. “It would really hurt their strike.” ....
Dockworkers at the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert and other locations on Canada’s west coast have been in a legal strike position since June 24 after an overwhelming 99.25 percent strike authorization. ....