News / Spectre of a new Montreal port labour clash sees shippers eye alternatives

© Angel Alvarez Perez

The port of Montreal appears to be on course for another flare-up in the confrontation between management and labour.

The past few days have seen an escalation in the conflict, increasing shipper fears of another crippling slowdown in operations.

Tension was already building when the seven-month truce, after last summer’s strike, ended in late March, with both sides accusing each other of negotiating in bad faith.

And in a vote a week before the end of the armistice, dockworkers voted overwhelmingly to reject ...