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A months-long labour dispute at Montreal's Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery appears to be drawing to a close after a tentative deal was reached Thursday, but the news provides little comfort for families desperate to visit their loved ones.
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Bereaved families are calling on Quebec’s premier to get involved in a labour dispute that has kept Canada’s biggest cemetery closed for five months. The wrought-iron gates of Montreal’s Notre-Dames-Des-Neiges cemetery have been shut to the public since mid-January due to a strike by operations and maintenance workers, with the exception of a few days in early spring.
More than 250 bodies have gone unburied this year at a Montreal cemetery as a result of a labour standoff, with the remains stored at freezing temperature in an on-site repository.
"We’re suffering," says Jimmy Koliakoudakis, whose mother died in February.