A growing chorus of community leaders, businesses and contractors caught in the middle of the battle between Western Forest Products (WFP) and the United Steelworkers wants the province to mediate, arbitrate, cool off or even legislate an end to job action that has devastated the economies of several Vancouver Island communities and kept more than 3,000 people out of work.
The crisis facing British Columbia’s forest industry is intensifying as markets decline, mills shut and a strike involving 3,000 forestry workers enters its seventh month.
Premier John Horgan addressed out-of-work B.C. logging contractors Thursday, January 16, at an annual convention, and he did not come empty handed.
The B.C. government is getting a cool reception to a $5-million loan package being offered to contractors impacted by a seven-month forestry strike on Vancouver Island.
The province is doling out $5 million to struggling logging contractors impacted by the longest strike in coastal forest history. Premier John Horgan made the announcement yesterday, during his speech at the Truck Loggers Association convention in Vancouver.
Premier John Horgan says the government is making $5 million available for loans to help contractors who are in danger of losing their equipment due to a forest industry strike on Vancouver Island.
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“It’s a big hole and someone needs to send us a rope and ladder to get us out of it.” The desperate appeal from David Elstone, outgoing Executive Director of British Columbia’s Truck Loggers Association (TLA) as he describes a near hopeless outlook among many of his organization’s 500 members as they gather in Vancouver for their annual convention January 15-17.
The 2020 Truck Loggers Association (TLA) Convention will take place January 15-17 at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver. The event will cover a range of topics, including the direction of the B.C. forest industry, utilizing fibre, cost trends, hourly rates of forestry equipment, diversifying forest tenure, and more.
With more than 100 trucks making up the convoy, trucks traveled through the city of Vancouver Sept. 25. Media reports from Vancouver indicated that the convoy congregated near the Pacific National Exhibition, and originated from several communities that are reeling from the financial impact of the logging industry’s downturn.
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