The 1,150 dockworkers at the Port of Montreal will vote on Tuesday on a strike mandate and on the latest employer offer.
The workers, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, are being asked to vote on a strike mandate whose content is not specified. It could therefore be an unlimited strike mandate or one that would be broken down into days or weeks, as the case may be.
Three meetings are scheduled for Tuesday to cover all shifts. The result of the vote will be known Wednesday, CUPE announced Monday.
Negotiations have not broken off, however. The Maritime Employers Association and the relevant CUPE local are scheduled to meet for a mediation session on Thursday, the day after the vote results are announced.
The last labor dispute among dockworkers at the Port of Montreal ended in April 2021 after the adoption of a special law forcing them to return to work.
Several longshoremen’s unions across the country met with the press last summer, saying they feared being forced into binding arbitration, as was the case with the labour dispute at CN and CPKC.
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