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Shipping companies face strike (12/01)

Unionized marine engineers aboard Great Lakes freighters took to the picket lines in late November as Canadian shipping companies scrambled to keep sailing.

Unionized marine engineers aboard Great Lakes freighters took to the picket lines in late November as Canadian shipping companies scrambled to keep sailing. The 150-member Canadian Marine Officers Union walked off the job in a dispute over wages, job security and health and safety issues caused by an industry trend to reduce manning levels, including a reduction in the number of on-board engineers.

Thunder Bay's N.M Paterson was affected, as well as Algoma Central Marine, Canada Steamship Lines, Parish & Hindbecker. The engineers' five-year contract expired in June.