Montreal dockworkers, employer to start mediation after six-day work stoppage

Dockworkers astatine the Port of Montreal accidental they are acceptable to statesman mediation with employers aft a six-day enactment stoppage earlier this month.

The national representing astir 1,200 longshore workers says the 2 sides person agreed to participate into the process for 90 days, followed by binding arbitration.

The improvement marks a renewed effort astatine dialog — with extracurricular assistance — aft the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the restart of larboard operations and the motorboat of arbitration to scope a caller contract.

The bid was issued aft national Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon stepped successful to nonstop workers backmost connected the job, a determination the national had said it planned to challenge.

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Management has said it would instrumentality respective weeks to afloat reconstruct shipment volumes aft the lockout, which ended connected Nov. 16.

The enactment stoppage marked the latest successful a drawstring of labour standoffs successful Canada that snarled transport operations implicit the past 18 months, including astatine the country’s 2 biggest railways, B.C. ports and the St. Lawrence Seaway.