Calling the resumption of the strike unlawful the Canada Industrial Relations Board has ordered more than 74-hundred striking port workers back to work.

Federal Minister of Labour Seamus O’Regan shared the CIRB’s decision on social media this morning (weds).

He says CIRB, an independent body created to keep industrial peace, ruled that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union cease and desist from participating in any strike action because the union did not provide 72 hours’ notice.

The mediated deal reached last week temporarily ended a 13-day strike which has left an estimated 10 billion dollars in goods backed up at B.C.’s 30 ports.  The deal did not even go to a full membership vote but was rejected by union leadership.

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