Longshore workers at the Port of Montreal voted 97.9 per cent in favour of granting their union executive the authority to call a strike if it chooses.
RELATED - Some east end residents are criticizing the response to a lithium battery fire at the Port of Montreal that forced dozens of people to leave their homes. An estimated 15,000 kilograms of batteries burned for hours just steps from a residential neighbourhood, bringing panic and a thick plume of toxic smoke. Global’s Dan Spector reports.Longshore workers voted 97.9 per cent in favour of granting their union executive the authority to call a strike if it chooses.
The union local, affiliated with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, would need to issue a 72-hour notice before its nearly 1,200 members could walk off the job. As far back as May, a handful of transport companies began to reroute cargo away from the country’s second-biggest port over fears of potential job action.
Montreal dockworkers last hit the picket lines in August 2020 in a 12-day strike that left 11,500 containers languishing on the waterfront. The parties remain in mediation, and the Maritime Employers Association says it hopes to hash out a deal at the table in the coming days.‘The same as it is in Winnipeg’: Housing insecurity a concern throughout Manitoba
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