VANCOUVER – A concrete strike may be looming in the Lower Mainland.
On July 2 Teamsters Local 213, based in Vancouver, served strike notice to Heidelberg Materials citing issues including “driver-facing cameras, excessive discipline, pension contributions, and coffee/lunch breaks,” according to the @TeamstersStrike X account.
Heidelberg Materials is a multi-national company with Canadian cement production operations in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.
After more than eight months “Teamsters Union Local 213 was forced to issue strike notice to the company at 10:50 AM this morning. The ‘FINDING OUT’ portion of #FAFO has begun,” the @TeamstersStrike account said.
If a strike occurs, the earliest time it would happen is late Friday morning PST.
A five-week work stoppage in 2022 by concrete truck operators stalled work throughout the Lower Mainland when Rempel employees went on strike and employees of other Metro Vancouver concrete companies refused to cross picket lines.
In a Journal of Commerce story from June concerning delays on the Broadway subway and Pattullo Bridge projects, Vancouver Regional Construction Association president Jeannine Martin commented on the effects of the 2022 strike on construction work.
“The feedback I got from my members is, a couple of days the industry can absorb, but five weeks? Then all that supply is coming from someone else who is already supplying someone else,” Martin said.
The Journal of Commerce contacted both Teamsters Local 213 and Heidelberg Materials for comment but has received no response as of yet.
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