The strike is coming
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Dock workers at the Port of Montreal, the largest port in eastern Canada, will go on strike on March 21 this month.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees and Maritime Employers representing Montreal port longshoremen Contract negotiations between the Association of On February 16, the union informed its members that contract negotiations had been suspended and prepared for a vote on a 60-day strike mandate. The two sides have been in a state of dispute since the port’s labor contract expired at the end of 2018.
Since the “confrontation escalated into industrial action” last summer, most of the port’s operations were paralyzed, causing serious disruptions in the supply chain, which took two months to sort out. The strike truce is valid until March 21.
If contract talks fail to reach an agreement on March 21, dockworkers will go on strike at a port that handled 35 million tons of cargo and commodities in 2020. The Canadian government has asked both sides to work toward an agreement, noting that Canada is “very aware of the central role that the Port of Montreal plays in transporting cargo to the country’s most populous region.”
Just last year, a series of rotating strikes by longshoremen and inspectors at the Port of Montreal forced 21 container ships to be diverted to other ports, while 80,000 20-foot containers were either shelved or rerouted.
CIFFA Executive Director Bruce Rodgers said: “We have not yet recovered from the The port strike has fully recovered from the strike. Data from Statistics Canada shows that wholesalers suffered a loss of 600 million Canadian dollars (a total of 475 million U.S. dollars) in sales. Another strike will put the Canadian economy into trouble.”
Bulk products such as oil, fertilizers and iron ore account for 63% of the Port of Montreal’s total cargo tonnage; the port handled more than 1.6 million containers last year, many of which were Small businesses rely on containers to transport goods such as food and textiles.
Hapag Lloyd, one of the world’s largest container shipping companies, said in an email to customers that it is encouraging customers to meet the March 21 truce deadline. before looking for alternative shipping methods to Montreal and being prepared to reroute goods if possible.
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