Union Launches Campaign Against BC Ferries' Contract for Chinese-Built Vessels, Urging Domestic Manufacturing
The BC Ferry and Marine Workers' Union has launched a campaign called 'Build Them Here,' encouraging citizens to ask the provincial and federal governments to keep shipbuilding contracts in Canada. The union says the recent decision by BC Ferries, a publicly owned ferry operator, to hire a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels means public money is being used to support economies abroad instead of creating jobs locally.
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