Port of Montreal employer issues ‘final’ offer to dockworkers, threatens lockout

The employers relation astatine the Port of Montreal has issued the dockworkers’ national a “final, broad offer,” threatening to fastener retired workers astatine 9 p.m. Sunday if a woody isn’t reached.

The Maritime Employers Association says its caller connection includes a 3 per cent wage summation per twelvemonth for 4 years and a 3.5 per cent summation for the 2 consequent years.

It says the connection would bring the full mean compensation bundle of a longshore idiosyncratic astatine the Port of Montreal to much than $200,000 per twelvemonth astatine the extremity of the contract.

In return, the employers relation says it is asking longshore workers to supply astatine slightest 1 hour’s announcement erstwhile they volition beryllium absent from a displacement — alternatively of 1 infinitesimal — to assistance trim absorption issues.

The longshore workers launched a partial unlimited onslaught connected Oct. 31, which has paralyzed 2 terminals that correspond 40 per cent of the port’s full instrumentality handling capacity.

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The national has antecedently said it volition judge the aforesaid increases that were granted to its counterparts successful Halifax oregon Vancouver — 20 per cent implicit 4 years.

The leader says that successful the lawsuit of a lockout, lone indispensable services and activities unrelated to longshoring volition proceed astatine the larboard aft 9 p.m. Sunday.