Three unions are now challenging the federal government’s recent decisions to intervene in major labour disputes, saying it’s undermining workers’ rights.
The union representing locked-out dock workers in Montreal was the latest Wednesday to say it plans to challenge Ottawa’s intervention in court, not long after the union representing locked-out workers in B.C. announced its intention to fight back.
“We will fight this order in the courts. We will fight the arbitrated forced contract in the courts,” said Frank Morena, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Ship & Dock Foremen Local 514, which represents the workers in B.C., in a press release Tuesday.
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon
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