Port of Montreal: Dockworkers will strike on Sunday
Posted October 24, 2024 12:01 pm.
Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal will strike on Sunday as negotiations to renew their collective agreement remain deadlocked. All terminals at the port will be affected by the 24-hour strike.
The Syndicat des débardeurs du port de Montréal, a local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, affiliated with the FTQ, announced on Thursday that it had filed a 72-hour notice – meaning that its members will be on strike from 7 a.m. Sunday until 6:59 a.m. Monday.
Since Oct. 10, around 1,200 dockworkers at the country’s second largest port have been on an overtime strike, which will continue after Sunday’s strike day.
Close to 300 union members also walked out for three days at the beginning of October, but that strike only affected two of the port’s four terminals. On Sunday, all four terminals will be affected.
The union will use its strike day on Sunday to hold a general meeting. The union has chosen not to participate in any media interviews.
Last week, federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon proposed to the union and the Maritime Employers Association that they use a special, time-limited mediation to resolve the impasse.
However, he confirmed on Monday that the two parties did not reach an agreement. He maintained that they must find a process leading to a negotiated agreement “as quickly as possible.”
The collective agreement for dockworkers at the Port of Montreal expired on Dec. 31.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
