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Longshore workers are set to strike Monday morning at key Port of Vancouver container terminals unless a last-minute deal can be reached.

Jeff Scott, chair of the B.C. Maritime Employers Association, said Saturday a mediator would be working with both sides through the weekend in an attempt to reach an agreement before Monday’s planned walkout.

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“We are working hard to avoid a disruption,” said Scott, who declined to discuss how the negotiations were going Saturday.

Roughly 2,000 workers “will commence strike action at GCT Deltaport and GCT Vanterm on May 27, 2019 at or about 7 a.m.,” stated a strike notice issued Thursday from Robert Ashton, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada to Eric Waltz, the president of Global Container Terminals Canada.

Deltaport is the largest container terminal of the four in Vancouver, Canada’s busiest port. If it and Vanterm on the Vancouver side of Burrard Inlet are shut down, it would cripple most of the port’s container traffic. And, depending on how the union’s picket lines are set up, other terminals could be affected.