by Working Forest | Feb 11, 2020 | Archives
VANCOUVER SUN –A tentative deal has been reached in the dispute between Western Forest Products and the striking United Steelworkers, providing a likely end to a bitter eight-month strike that has been financially devastating to mill workers and forestry-related...
by Working Forest | Feb 7, 2020 | Archives
Vancouver – February 6, 2020 – David Elstone, executive director of the Truck Loggers Association (TLA) issued the following statement in response to the government’s appointment of special mediators in the coastal forestry dispute, announced today.“We are...
by Working Forest | Feb 7, 2020 | Archives
VANCOUVER SUN — Two days after concluding there was no chance of reaching a deal mediators Vince Ready and Amanda Rogers have checked back in to the dispute between Western Forest Products and striking United Steelworkers, with the power to draft a proposed...
by Working Forest | Feb 7, 2020 | Archives
EAST KOOTENAY NEWS WEEKLY e-KNOW — In an attempt to ease the pain felt by rural communities affected by mill closures throughout the province, the B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Feb. 5 announced is providing $1 million in funding to develop tourism...
by Working Forest | Feb 7, 2020 | Archives
GENEVA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization arbiters sided against the United States on Thursday over duties it had applied on Canadian paper in one of the final verdicts of the WTO’s appeals body. Canada had in 2016 challenged U.S. duties applied to Canadian...
