While the 1,150 dockworkers at the Port of Montreal are called to vote on the latest employer offer and to obtain a strike mandate, the union recommends rejecting this offer, which it considers to be little different from the previous one.
In a message to members, the union’s negotiating committee and executive committee recommend that they reject the Maritime Employers Association’s global offer, filed on July 22.
Members of this local section of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, are called to vote from Tuesday 6 p.m. to Wednesday 6 p.m. They must hold two votes.
In its message to its members, the CUPE local considers that the settlement offer from the Maritime Employers Association “is, apart from a few cosmetic changes, in all respects similar to its previous offer of April 17, 2024.”
And this offer was submitted to the union members, who rejected it by a vote of 99.54%.
The union was summoned by mediators on Thursday to give its response to the offer from the Maritime Employers Association, which represents stevedoring companies.
Meanwhile, further south, a major strike threat looms for the 1er October in several ports on the American East Coast, on behalf of the International Longshoremen’s Association.