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Hundreds of workers walked off the job on Sunday

Shutdown of shipping corridor will impact businesses that depend on St. Lawrence Seaway to get goods to their clients.

Business groups want the federal government to help avoid a lengthy strike on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Business groups want the federal government to help avoid a lengthy strike on the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Some 360 engineers, operators, maintenance workers, supervisors, and administrative staff walked off the job early Sunday morning, shutting down the St. Lawrence Seaway, which enables oceangoing vessels to travel between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.

MONTREAL — The federal government has instructed workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike to sit down with a mediator this Friday and hash out their differences, as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze.

The full Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway system serves over 100 ports and commercial docks and helps Canada's Prairie provinces and the U.S. Midwest export goods.

Workers and management in the St. Lawrence Seaway strike will have to hit the negotiation table Friday as groups ranging from grain farmers to steelmakers feel the squeeze.

The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. has applied to the Canada Industrial Relations Board for an exception on the transport of grain, a request that if granted would see the commodity flow through the artery despite the strike.

The union and management authority both said they would comply with the government notice for mediation, but in the meantime, producers continue to fret