Trucker Strike In BC, Not The Usual Deal

The thing is, business brought this on themselves. They chose to use independant truckers instead of their own trucks and drivers. The advantage being that business need have no loyalty at all, using or not using any trucker as they saw fit. Any trip can be your last trip, no severance pay, no benefits, no pension. This was a concious choice by those businesses. Where they screwed themselves is that they forgot owner-operators are persons. Under the law they have all civil rights - Unions are not persons, they have no civil rights, only labour law rights. Government can order unions back to work but owner-operators are not employees - they are persons with the right to freedom of association. The only "governmental" recourse business can have is enforcement of contracts by the courts. They, as a legal person, have to sue the drivers for unfulfilled contracts - if any actually exist. My limited experience says that there are few long-term contracts with owner-operators, just single contracts for single loads. Its almost funny listening to all the "labour experts" the media is trotting out to tell us how irresponsible the government is being in this matter. Owner-operators are not labour, you'd think an "expert" would know that. May you live in interesting times.