By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted October 10, 2024 7:15 am
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Dockworkers astatine the Port of Montreal are acceptable to halt each overtime enactment this greeting successful a unit maneuver targetting their employers arsenic declaration talks continue.
The national representing astir 1,200 longshore workers astatine the larboard filed announcement connected Monday that the overtime onslaught volition footwear disconnected astatine 7 a.m. EDT contiguous and proceed indefinitely.
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Union spokesperson Michel Murray says scheduling remains a cardinal stumbling artifact successful the bargaining sessions, which resumed connected Friday alongside national mediators.
The Maritime Employers Association struck backmost against the national earlier this week, informing that employees assigned to shifts with incomplete crews volition not beryllium paid due to the fact that they dilatory oregon halt the travel of freight.
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The association, which represents shipping companies and terminal operators, says the frost connected overtime enactment volition person a large interaction connected operations.
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The constricted occupation enactment comes aft a three-day onslaught past week astatine 2 terminals that grip 41 per cent of instrumentality postulation astatine the country’s second-largest port.
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