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The business of exporting coal and its potential effects on communities and environment along rail and shipping routes will be front and centre at a town hall-style meeting in Steveston Thursday night. It’s a subject For a that has been video pressing on Erika of Dr. Frank Koenig-Workman’s James mind for a while. She’s watched as a proposal has moved ahead to use Surrey Fraser Docks — across from south eastern tip of Annacis Island — as a transfer point for coal mined in the Powder Basin area of Wyoming and Montana.
The coal will be transported by called the Richmond Coal Awareness rail to Surrey, barged along the Fraser Town Hall Meeting. River’s south “It’s disconarm past certing to know “It’s disconcerting to Steveston to that this may be a secondary my know that this may be something transfer facilchildren will have something my children to deal with when ity on Texada Island, then they are adults,” will have to deal with...” said shipped in deep the mother of — Erika Koenig-Workman three young boys. sea tankers to markets in “There just China. seems to be a lot of changes coming to The potential fallout from coal dust the Lower Mainland all at once, what is what prompted Koenig-Workman, with possible shifts in the ALR, the jet a Steveston resident, to organize fuel shipping proposal, and now coal Thursday’s two-hour long gathering shipments.” see Trips page 4 at the Steveston Community Centre
The labour disruption at Ikea’s Richmond location is expected to stretch through the Christmas season as the union and company remain at odds over contract details and the fate of a group of unionized workers who crossed the picket lines and returned to work. Anita Dawson, with Teamsters Local 213, which represents the 350 employees who have been without work since mid-May, said last week’s offer from the company did not satisfy issues surrounding wages, benefits and work guarantees. Plus, the union is insisting those 35 former union members who went back to work at the Richmond store not be permitted to remain there once an agreement is struck. “We don’t want them back in Richmond in a union capacity, and since there aren’t that many management jobs there, the logical thing is they would have to go to (Ikea’s) Coquitlam store,” Dawson said. The 35 workers who crossed the picket line were expelled from the union following a hearing in June. Dawson said there are varying degrees of punishment the union could mete out, which includes suspensions and fines. Expulsion from the union was chosen because those members failed to take part in the union’s hearings to defend themselves, plus crossing the picket line was not a solitary incident. “The fact is these people decided to repeatedly cross the picket line. When they signed on to work here, they knew they were entering a union environment, and one of the conditions was being a union member,” Dawson said. Meanwhile, Ikea officials stated they fully support those who returned to work. “Ikea respects its employees’ legal right to work, whether or not they are an actual union member, and is committed to protect employees to the fullest extent of the law,” stated company spokesperson Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick in a press release. “It is not acceptable to the company that any employee should be terminated for returning to work.”
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