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Montreal averts week-long blue-collar strike with tentative deal
The city reached an agreement in principle with 6,000 blue-collar workers, heading off a strike planned during the UCI Road World Championships; about 50 housing-agency workers still walked out Sept 23.
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The tentative deal defused a strike notice for September 22–28 that would have overlapped almost the entire cycling world championships — billed as Montreal's biggest sporting event since the 1976 Olympics.
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The City of Montreal reached an agreement in principle with its 6,000 blue-collar workers earlier in the week of September 21, avoiding a seven-day strike that had been planned for September 22 to 28. The union, CUPE Local 301, had timed the notice to coincide with the UCI Road World Championships, which ran September 20–27.
Union president Nicolas De Ciccio said the city's wage offers remained below inflation and that members had been without a contract for two years. Unions from Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere sent video messages of solidarity, calling the dispute a fight against declining real wages.
Separately, about 50 blue-collar workers at the Société d'habitation et de développement de Montréal staged a one-day strike on Wednesday, September 23, after going without a contract since December 31, 2024. Union representative Félix Gagnon said the employer proposed benefit cuts to help fund wage increases, and the union holds a 100-per-cent strike mandate including the possibility of an unlimited general strike.
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