In the absence of an agreement with the CUPE dockers, the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) called a lockout at the Port of Montreal on Sunday evening.
When submitting its final offer on Thursday, the MEA warned the longshoremen’s union “that in the absence of an agreement on the offer … only essential services and activities not related to longshore will continue at the Port of Montreal as of Sunday, November 10 at 9 pm.”
Members of the union rejected the MEA’s offer by 99.7% during a secret vote held at a general meeting on Sunday morning.
The MEA said in a press release that it “reiterates its request to the Minister of Labour, Steven MacKinnon, to intervene to resolve the impasse as quickly as possible.”
Read more in an article from Le Journal de Montréal (translated from French).