Port operations resume following longshore workers lockout in Montreal
Posted November 16, 2024 11:40 am.
Operations are set to resume at the Port of Montreal as of seven o’clock this morning following a lockout of longshore workers.
Management at the Port of Montreal says it will take several weeks to fully establish the import and export supply chain flow following the lockout that started last Sunday.
That’s when the Maritime Employers Association locked out close to 12-hundred longshore workers after its latest contract offer was rejected.
The union representing the workers had called an indefinite strike on October 31st that affected two terminals at the Port of Montreal.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the restart of operations at the port as well as for negotiations to be moved to binding arbitration.
The order was issued after federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon stepped in to end the dispute, a move the union says it plans to challenge.
