After a 13-day labor strike that suspended cargo movement in British Columbia, longshore workers returned to the waterfront following a tentative four-year agreement reached between the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada on July 13. Details of the tentative contract, which still needs to be ratified by both sides, were not made public. The employers association credited the work of federal mediator Peter Simpson and his team, who were instrumental in getting the tentative deal done with help from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service officers and Canada’s Minister of Labor, Seamus O’Regan…