{"id":710477,"date":"2026-06-02T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:57:12","slug":"premier-says-potential-strike-at-marine-atlantic-of-significant-concern-to-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/710477\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier says Potential Strike at Marine Atlantic of \u2018Significant Concern\u2019 to Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/marine-atlantic-logo-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Premier says Potential Strike at Marine Atlantic of 'Significant Concern' to Province\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham says a potential strike at Marine Atlantic this summer is of significant concern to the province. <\/p>\n<p>In the event of a strike, service could be reduced to three crossings a week and the Argentia run will be shut down. <\/p>\n<p>It comes down to a dispute over what constitutes an \u201cessential service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Marine Atlantic, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board determined in 2004 that the ferry service between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia is essential to the health and safety of the public, and as a result service cannot be reduced in the event of a strike or lockout.  <\/p>\n<p>Unifor claims that the corporation\u2019s response to what constitutes an \u201cessential service\u201d relies on \u201coutdated conditions that do not reflect current operations\u201d and has asked that the CIRB reconsider that decision.<\/p>\n<p>The premier says he\u2019s discussed the issue with federal officials. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause right now, any kind of a slowdown on Marine Atlantic is a problem for us. As a matter of fact I would suggest we need more ships running that route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conciliation expires next Monday, followed by a 21-day cooling off period before a possible strike or lockout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham says a potential strike at Marine Atlantic this summer is of significant concern to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-710477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}