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Maritime Employers Association Orders a Lock-out at the Port of Montreal
Sunday, July 18, 2010
(MONTREAL) - Faced with the union's refusal to acknowledge the urgency of the matter as well as the need to radically amend the collective agreement between the Maritime Employers Association and the Port of Montreal's longshoremen, and in order to avoid compromising Port activities, the MEA has chosen to exercise its legal right according to the labour code and is ordering a lock-out for some 850 employees covered by the accreditation certificate held by the Longshoremen's Union, CUPE, Local 375.
The main issue is job and revenue security. Considering existing market conditions, MEA can no longer accept such a large gap between the amount of hours worked and paid for by longshoremen and the amount of hours not worked but fully paid for.
MEA's management team believes that while this is not a desirable outcome, it had no other choice but to order a lock-out, given that pressure tactics have begun to impede Port operations. Consequently, all activities on terminals operated by MEA members will be interrupted as of 8 a.m. Monday, July 19 2010 until further notice.
The Port of Montreal's activity and sustainability remain priorities and MEA's management hopes that this situation will prompt union representatives to look more realistically at the challenges ahead for the maritime sector.
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