Union on Strike Against Algoma

Algoma Canadian Merchant Services Guild has launched a strike against the countrys shipping company Algoma Central Corporation. The union represents navigation and engineering officers on the companys domestic product tanker fleet. As informed, 54 employees of Algoma Tankers Limited are involved in the strike. The union has provided assurance that the vessels affected by the strike will sail to a safe berth and be secured before the employees leave their posts, Algoma said in a statement. In its financial report for 2016, the company said that navigation and engineering officers are represented by six separate bargaining units of the Guild. Four of these agreements expired on May 31, 2016, and two other agreements on July 31, 2016. World Maritime News contacted Algoma and Canadian Merchant Services Guild to find out more about the causes of the strike, however, the parties are yet to reply.