By Félix Vincent Ardea
January 25, 2021
Militant/Katy LerougetelMembers of Unifor union picket at Shell oil terminal in Montreal Dec. 10. The workers, fighting Shell bosses’ union-busting lockout, held joint action with locked out Gate Gourmet workers.
MONTREAL — Locked-out Shell Canada oil terminal workers in Montreal-East and Gate Gourmet airline caterers in the Dorval suburb here, all members of the Unifor union, are joining together to fight moves by their bosses to roll back decades of gains in wages and working conditions and to undermine their unions.
The Gate Gourmet workers were locked out Nov. 10 and the Shell workers Nov. 27. The 20 Shell workers, members of Unifor Local 121, have been without a contract for almost two years. Negotiations for the Gate Gourmet workers, members of Unifor amalgamated Local 698, started last July.