(Montreal) Agropur and the union representing the 250 workers on strike at the Granby plant met on Tuesday following the union’s conditional offer to end its strike.
Posted at 4:12 p.m.
Last Friday, the union of the Central of Democratic Trade Unions (CSD) offered to end its strike, which began on June 29, on condition that the employer renounces its intention to modify working hours.
It was this question of changes in working hours that had prompted the workers to call an indefinite general strike, even before the wage question was addressed.
The union claimed that the employer wanted to lengthen the working day from eight hours to 12 and also wanted employees to return to work at different times depending on the day of the week.
The employer did not want to confirm or deny these assertions of the union, but he admitted to needing “flexibility” on the part of the workers to adjust to the milk processing needs which sometimes vary.
The CSD union claimed that the employer had made 158 requests for changes affecting 32 of the 33 clauses of the collective agreement.
The meeting was not yet over by mid-afternoon on Tuesday.