{"id":602107,"date":"2026-04-13T22:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602107\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:19:09","slug":"essential-services-to-be-maintained-during-montreal-blue-collar-workers-strike-beginning-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602107\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential services to be maintained during Montreal blue-collar workers\u2019 strike beginning Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

As municipal blue-collar workers are set to begin their three-day strike Wednesday, City officials said essential services will continue without interruption.<\/p>\n

Blue-collar workers have announced their third walkout from 6 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, to 6 a.m. on Saturday, April 18 demanding better wages.<\/p>\n

Authorities said emergency services and other work deemed to be essential for public health and safety will not be affected, including:<\/p>\n

Emergencies (exceptional and urgent situations not covered by the agreement, situations that endanger public health and safety, or emergencies declared by municipal authorities)<\/p>\n

Repair of traffic signs and signals damaged as a result of an accident, among other causes<\/p>\n

Street cleanup following an accident, safety pruning, and tree removal (emergency response regarding public trees)<\/p>\n

Road repairs (major potholes and sinkholes)<\/p>\n

Cleaning of public spaces to ensure safe coexistence<\/p>\n

Operations related to sewers and water mains<\/p>\n

Preventive inspections of municipal arenas<\/p>\n

Operations related to spring flooding in certain boroughs (Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Ahuntsic-Cartierville, \u00cele-Bizard)<\/p>\n

Operations related to drinking water production and wastewater treatment<\/p>\n

Maintenance of living collections (animal, plant and insects)<\/p>\n

Household waste collection in the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough, scheduled for Wednesday will proceed as part of essential services, and the collection scheduled for Thursday will be postponed to Saturday, according to the administration.<\/p>\n

The City will suspend parking restrictions related to street maintenance operations on all three days of the strike. Other parking regulations remain in effect, including those regarding metered parking, on-street parking zones reserved for residents, limited-time zones, as well as reserved lanes, spaces reserved for people with reduced mobility, and secured zones (e.g., fire hydrants).<\/p>\n

The administration also said that there maybe changes to services during the strike period.<\/p>\n

Montrealers are asked to consult the City\u2019s website<\/a> or call 311 before heading to municipal facilities to ensure they are offered.<\/p>\n

The three-day strike is the third walkout that 5,500 blue-collar workers belonging to the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ. Workers staged a one-day walkout in February.<\/p>\n

The union and the City have been in negotiations since February 2025. The previous collective agreement expired on Dec. 31, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As municipal blue-collar workers are set to begin their three-day strike Wednesday, City officials said essential services will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-602107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}