Two Port of Montreal terminals shut down as dockworkers begin new partial strike

Dockworkers astatine the Port of Montreal person started a caller partial onslaught today, forcing the indefinite shutdown of 2 instrumentality terminals astatine the country’s 2nd biggest port.

The Port of Montreal says the Viau and Maisonneuve terminals are closed until further notice, paralyzing 40 per cent of the port’s full instrumentality handling capacity.

The national representing astir 1,200 longshore workers began its latest onslaught astatine 11 a.m., affecting the 2 terminals operated by the institution Termont.

The determination comes connected apical of an ongoing onslaught connected overtime shifts affecting the full larboard and aft a three-day onslaught astatine the aforesaid 2 instrumentality terminals earlier this month. The national besides held a 24-hour enactment stoppage connected Sunday.

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The Canadian Union of Public Employees had said it was consenting to telephone disconnected the onslaught if it could scope a woody connected a information of the dispute, which is centred connected a scheduling signifier utilized by Termont.

The Maritime Employers Association has denounced the onslaught but said it can’t assistance the request to alteration enactment schedules without ceremonial negotiations taking place.