The two sides have not met all week, with the union claiming that employers refused a sit-down convened by federal mediators on Thursday
The union representing Montreal dockworkers has ended a three-day strike at two terminals as scheduled.
The union representing Montreal dockworkers has ended a three-day strike at two terminals as scheduled.
The Maritime Employers Association confirmed the work stoppage came to an end at 7 a.m. at the terminals, which handle more than 40 per cent of container traffic at the country’s second-largest port.
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The employers association, which represents shipping companies and terminal operators, says the mediation process is failing to produce results, but that no meeting was scheduled and its aim remains a collective agreement hammered out through negotiations.
The three-day job action by a quarter of the port’s 1,200 loaders and checkers kicked off one day before tens of thousands of dockworkers walked off the job at three-dozen ports in the United States, halting roughly half of the country’s ocean cargo.
In Canada , manufacturers and food distributors worry that a prolonged strike in Montreal or the U.S. would cause weeks-long backlogs and strand shipments of items ranging from apples to auto parts.
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