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Date: February 3, 2012
(Postmedia News)
Border services officers walked off the job at the Detroit tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge on Wednesday afternoon demanding the Canada Border Services Agency fix flaws in the policies stipulating how officers are to deal with people considered armed and dangerous.
Only two lines were open at the tunnel and the bridge and staffed by management, Jason McMichael, second vice-president of the Customs and Immigration Union told the Windsor Star, adding that this was in no way a job action nor was it related to the current contract negotiations. Read more here.
Update:
(iPolitics.ca)
It’s business as usual at Canada’s most important trade crossing after CBSA workers “begrudgingly” returned to their Windsor-Detroit border posts early Thursday, following a work stoppage that began 12 hours earlier. Read more here.
Date: February 3, 2012
