{"id":10781,"date":"2024-10-23T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/overtime-ban-at-port-of-montreal-goes-on-as-special-mediator-is-rejected\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:36:44","slug":"overtime-ban-at-port-of-montreal-goes-on-as-special-mediator-is-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/overtime-ban-at-port-of-montreal-goes-on-as-special-mediator-is-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtime Ban at Port of Montreal Goes On as &#8216;Special Mediator&#8217; Is Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian shipping stakeholder hopes of a prompt resolution of the dispute at the Port of Montreal have been quashed, after Canadian Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon\u2019s proposal for \u201cspecial mediation\u201d was rejected.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mr. MacKinnon made a proposal to the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) and Montreal Longshoremen\u2019s union Local 375 to appoint a special mediator so the parties could \u201cresume negotiations without any pressure tactics from either side, over a 90-day period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. MacKinnon wrote on X\u00a0yesterday: \u201cThe parties have been unable to reach an agreement,\u201d indicating that a mediator would therefore not be appointed.<\/p>\n<p>But he urged: \u201cThey must find a path forward towards a negotiated settlement as quickly as possible,\u201d and added that he would \u201ccontinue to closely monitor the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the overtime ban at the port that started on October 11 is set to last indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_b1701f3a-e58f-4a2b-864c-3b9091af4b83&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubvfetjq4x39dnjjurk1drpp2x1de1qq4x1ddxk2uvbfdtu74tb1dgppevv5ecppyvhdc5tjuwvgcnhpjrbc5nppat39c5u6ywhdd5tjuwk5d9jp6x35cgqg&amp;n=4\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The MEA in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_b1701f3a-e58f-4a2b-864c-3b9091af4b83&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq6utb15thp2bv5drqpjvk6dwppwtb7dwqg&amp;n=5\">online update<\/a> said: &#8220;The time has come to determine the next steps with the support of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian shipping stakeholder hopes of a prompt resolution of the dispute at the Port of Montreal have been quashed, after Canadian Minister of Labour Steven MacKinnon\u2019s proposal for \u201cspecial mediation\u201d was rejected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[552],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-port-of-montreal-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}