News / Minister orders Industrial Relations Board to step in to end port strikes in Canada

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Canada’s labour minister, Steve MacKinnon, has ordered the Industrial Relations Board (IRB) to step in to end the strikes at ports on the east and west coasts.

Mr MacKinnon posted on X that he had directed the IRB to extend the collective bargaining agreements at the ports until new deals are agreed and impose “final and binding arbitration” on all the parties involved.

“Collective bargaining negotiations between the parties in the ports of British Columbia, Montreal ...