David Elstone, executive director at Truck Loggers Association, discusses provincial funding for forestry contractors amid a seven-month strike.
Mayor Andy Adams joined city councillors, Kermit Dahl and Charlie Cornfield, at the annual Truck Loggers Association Convention last week in Vancouver.
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.
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