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Canada Border Services Agency: Officers

Ron Moran Dept: The Canada Border Services Agency says the disruption is the result of work refusals by several officers at those ports of entry, according to The Star. The officers will perform arrests and execute criminal warrants and so on. So having access to their name as opposed to their badge number is something we re very profoundly concerned with, said Ron Moran, national vice president of the Customs and Immigration union and oTTAWA A dispute involving name tags has sparked a slowdown at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, the busiest trade link between Canada and the United States, and at the Blue Water Bridge crossing at Sarnia. The union representing border guards says staff taking part in the job action are questioning the health and safety implications of wearing a name tag on their uniform. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.