Maritime Employers Association (MEA)

Canadian dockers employers association rues impasse ahead of today’s strike

Canada’s Maritime Employers Association (MEA) is asking the Minister of Labour and Seniors, Steven MacKinnon, to appoint a special mediator as it has so far failed to reach a consensus with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), which has called for strike action in Montreal port’s Viau and Maisonneuve terminals today (31 October).

Since December 2023, Montreal’s dockers have had no collective agreement, and over the past month, have engaged in intermittent industrial action. On 28...

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Strike saga continues in Montreal: Dockers start overtime ban

Dockers at Canada’s largest East Coast port in Montreal are due to start an unlimited overtime ban from 7 am (local time) today (10 October) after claiming that employers are “dragging their feet” in negotiations for a new contract.

The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents around 1,200 dockers at the Port of Montreal (CUPE 375), said that port workers have been without a collective agreement since 31 December last year.

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Unions “outraged” at Ottawa’s attack on Montreal docker’s human rights

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), a federation of transport unions across the world, have launched an attack on Canada’s Liberal Government after the legislation was passed late on Thursday and will now likely be approved in the Senate on Friday.

The Back-To-Work legislation was first called for by the Maritime Employers’ Association (MEA) in after the unions and employers failed to agree a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in 2018. The Canada Industrial Labour...

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Trudeau Government to force Montreal dockers back to work

Canada’s federal administration has tabled legislation that will outlaw the strike that began yesterday (27 April) as Montreal’s dockers failed to reach an accord over a new collective bargaining agreement with terminal employers.

According to local reports, the new legislation will impose arbitration on the dockers and the Maritime Employers Association (MEA), the employer’s representatives, with fines also imposed for non-compliance.

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Montreal dispute back on as MEA and dockers go head to head

A labour dispute that has been simmering since the end of 2018 is bursting into the open again following a nearly eight-month hiatus with the Maritime Employers’ Association (MEA) and dockers both drawing the battle lines.

Montreal-based publication, the Maritime Mag reported that MEA had suspended the guaranteed income and job security provision, in the existing contract after the port “suffered a substantial 11% volume drop in March, caused by the uncertainty and anxiety triggered by the...

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