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Strike: No Coasting in Lower Mainland
Who would have thought that when a group of independent container haulers at the Port of Vancouver slapped down the hasta la vista card during contract negotiations with their carrier companies, they would be putting in motion a game of chicken that would take nearly a month and a half to end?
PIPEDA always evolving
While it's applied to federally-regulated companies since 2001, only as of Jan. 1, this year -- when the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) stretched to cover most provincially regulated companies -- did the average Canadian worker begin paying attention to who knows what about him.
DRIVER POLITICS: UNIONS NOT SO PUNCHLESS
The dominoes continue to fall two years after a landmark Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) decision that certified the Teamsters union to bargain for about 200 independent owner-operators and agency drivers contracted to Mackie Moving Systems in Oshawa, Ont.