July 3, 2023

• Web notice
• Started July 1
• 7,400 terminal cargo loaders
• 30 ports affected
• 49 of the province's waterfront employers affected
• $2.7 billion to Canada's GDP while handling roughly
• 16% of the country's total traded goods
• $180 billion in 2020.
• June strike vote: 99.24 per cent of union membership voted in favour

Our Main Objectives are:

• To stop the erosion of our work through Contracting Out
• To protect current and future generations from the devastating impacts of Port Automation
• To protect longshore workers from record High Inflation and sky rocketing Cost of Living

Response to aggressive right-wing anti undocumented worker law:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 1719 into law in May, which targets undocumented immigrants by requiring employers to check that workers are authorized to work in the U.S. The new immigration law expands requirements for businesses with more than 25 employees to use E-Verify, a federal system that determines if employees can legally work in the U.S.

• UPS drops two-tier wage system
• UPS says negotiations should be done by Wednesday
• Teamsters Local 710, representing 7,000 full- and part-time UPSers under its local-specific contract, has reached tentative agreement with UPS on a new five-year deal. This deal excludes the economic issues in the National Master Agreement still in negotiations.