City of Montreal professionals on strike evenings and weekends
Posted October 2, 2026 1:56 pm.
After a one-day strike on March 30, the approximately 3,000 professionals who work for the City of Montreal will be on strike again, this time evenings, nights and at all times during weekends.
This second strike for the Montreal Municipal Professionals Union — an independent union from the central unions — will begin on Oct. 19.
These professionals work in libraries, information technology, water management, culture, the environment, and finance, for example.
Essential services will be maintained during the strike.
“We don’t want to jeopardize essential services; we’re not there at all. But we want to demonstrate to the City that when people are no longer present at those times, there will be, therefore… I called it the strike of great disruption,” said the union president, Anne Dorais, in an interview Friday.
Dorais states that, even if the strike takes place in the evenings, at night and on weekends, it will produce its effects, since some municipal services have atypical hours, such as libraries, cultural services and information technology.
Similarly, “the budget process is very intense in the fall” and sometimes requires going beyond normal hours, into the evening, reports Dorais.
This strike will take place during the week from 5pm to 8am, and then, during the weekend, at all times.
The collective agreement expired on December 31, 2023.
These union members had given themselves a strike mandate in a proportion of 90.6 per cent on Sept. 23.
The dispute mainly concerns wages and teleworking.
The City of Montreal recently reached an agreement in principle with another major union, the 6000 blue-collar workers’ union, a local branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ. They have not yet commented on the agreement.
Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada has stated in the past that she has little room for maneuver, given the City’s financial situation, and wants to respect citizens’ ability to pay.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
