News / Canadian government to step in over new strike threat at port of Montreal

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At the eleventh hour the Canadian government is to intervene in the escalating labour confrontation at the port of Montreal.

Faced with the prospect of a second crippling strike within nine months, Ottawa has abandoned its stance of staying out of the dispute.

Less than nine months after last summer’s confrontation, the port was set for another strike after the Canadian Union of Public Employees served notice to the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) on Friday that the 1,150 longshoremen would strike at ...