July 23, 2010
Longshoremen unanimously voted Friday morning in favour of an agreement that ends a five-day lockout and allow normal operations to resume at the Port of Montreal this weekend.
The agrement will remain in effect until mid-October. The union and management will resume full contract talks on Monday, with a federal mediator present.
The Maritime Employers Association agreed to reinstate 169 on-call positions that were cut. In exchange, the union said it would stop all pressure tactics, including refusing to work overtime.
The Port of Montreal announced that following this back-to-work agreement, terminals that were affected by the labour dispute will resume operation on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. All rail traffic has resumed and vessels that were diverted and not unloaded in another port are en route back to the Port of Montreal.
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