(Port-Daniel) Workers at the McInnis quarry and cement plant have voted in recent days to obtain a strike mandate, which they can exercise when deemed appropriate, in the respective proportions of 100% and 98.6% , the United Steelworkers said Monday.
Posted yesterday at 2:23 p.m.
Two negotiation sessions are scheduled for June 13 and 14, said the union, which represents 15 workers at the quarry and 81 at the Gaspé cement plant.
These workers last week rejected an offer presented as “final and comprehensive” by the employer, after voting unanimously against a previous offer earlier this spring.
According to the union, the negotiations are stumbling over wages, the pension plan and some normative articles of the collective agreement.
This is the first renewal of the collective agreement for the workers at the Port-Daniel˗Gascons plant and quarry, after the first negotiation in 2018.
The McInnis cement plant, inaugurated in 2017, has belonged since the end of April 2021 to Ciment St Marys, a subsidiary of the Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim. The joint venture is 83% controlled by Votorantim and the Caisse de depot et placement du Québec indirectly holds the remaining 17%.