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“I don’t understand why the government isn’t taking a harder stance or a more direct step into this labor conflict.”Nancy Babalis said she still comes nearly every weekend to visit the plot of her 13-year-old son, who died 10 years earlier minus a day.
“I sneak in every weekend. I found a place where the fence is higher,” she said. “If it was their child or their loved one there, they would do the same thing I’m doing.”A tentative agreement between management and the Cemetery Maintenance Employees’ Union fell through last month. Both sides had agreed to support the recommendation of the province’s head mediator, Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet said on June 15, dubbing the would-be deal an “excellent development.” But the maintenance union ultimately rejected it.Article content
Groundskeepers have been without a collective agreement since 2018, and office workers — who kicked off the strike in September _ haven’t had one in place since 2017.“This conflict has been going on for too long and has significant consequences for human dignity and for the families affected,” he wrote.Waist-high weeds and downed branches from an April ice storm cover the cemetery grounds, which sprawl across Mount Royal’s north side.
“Now that all the leaves are on the trees, you don’t see that the branches are broken. We have one, two, three, four tree limbs that fall each day. That makes it dangerous for people to walk the cemetery,” Granger said.This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 9, 2023.
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