Longshoremen Stage Four-Day Walkout at Port of Montreal

Excerpts from Maritime Executive:

Longshoremen with the Canadian Union of Public Employees have declared a four-day strike at the Port of Montreal in protest over their work schedule. According to the union, longshoremen at the port work a rotation with 19 days on and two days off, year round (excepting holidays and port closures). ?? 

In a Facebook post Monday, the union accused terminal operator Termont of using non-union labor to continue operations. Termont, which manages two sites at the port, still listed normal gate hours from 0600 to 2215 daily on its status page. 

According to the port, the longshoremen are employed by the Maritime Employers’ Association, not by individual terminals or the port authority. They have been operating without a collective bargaining agreement since the beginning of 2019, according to local media.