Montreal Workers Protest, Demand Higher Wages

0:00Montreal's blue-collar workers are hitting the streets hard today, Friday, protesting right in front of City Hall and forcing a full shutdown of. Notre Dame Street. This ramps up from yesterday, Thursday, when they block traffic near the Olympic Stadium for close to six hours. It's their second walk out this year after their contract ran out December 31, following an earlier one, February 4. Folks are fired up over pay, rejecting the city's 11% race spread across five years as way too low amid skyrocketing living costs. The Union, a local arm of Coupe, stands for 6,200 city employees across 180 different roles, pulling in around. $55,000 a year on average, they're demanding at least 7% bumps annually to keep up. With tensions boiling, these actions signal no quick fix, so Montreal drivers and residents should brace for more gridlock while negotiations grind. On. Listening to Canada News today, AI-powered local news.