Metropolis of Montreal blue-collar employees will start a three-day strike beginning at 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
The strike by the Montreal Blue Collar Employees Union, which is able to final till 6 a.m. on April 18, includes important providers. Staffing will subsequently be decreased and a number of other providers will probably be affected.
The events have already agreed on this matter and the Administrative Labour Tribunal just lately dominated that the checklist of those providers was enough in order to not have an effect on public well being or security.
The native department of the Canadian Union of Public Staff (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, represents 6200 members within the Metropolis of Montreal, in 180 job titles.
This would be the second strike by blue-collar employees as half of the present negotiations for the renewal of their collective settlement, which expired on December 31, 2024. Beforehand, they held a one-day strike on Feb. 4.
The dispute primarily considerations salaries. Dealing with a tough monetary state of affairs, the Metropolis is providing an 11 per cent enhance over 5 years. “There is no such thing as a room for maneuver,” Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said throughout the first day of the blue-collar employees’ strike, in an interview with the Réseau de l’info (RDI).
The Blue-Collar Employees Union counters that accepting such a rise “would inevitably result in the impoverishment” of its members.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews