Wed Oct 20, 2021 – 4:56 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The president of one of Canada’s largest unions representing dockworkers has asked the federal government and Transport Canada to leave them alone when it comes to mandating COVID jabs.
According to a Western Standard report, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU) president Rob Ashton wrote in a letter to Marc-Yves Bertin and Julie Gascon of Transport Canada that “no third-party intervention is necessary.”
“Our track record speaks for itself this far into the pandemic, and we feel that what we have been and continue to do is working very well,” wrote Ashton in his letter, which the Western Standard says is dated October 14.
According to its website, ILWU Canada Longshore Division is involved in the “loading, unloading and checking of cargo to and from vessels, and the storage of these goods on the docks and in warehouses across the country.”
It represents over 7,200 workers in British Columbia and is the official bargaining agent for those employees at all levels of government.
In his letter to Transport Canada, Ashton wrote that Canada’s Labour Code mandates that workers have a right to have a “say
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