MONTREAL — Bereaved families called on Quebec’s premier Sunday to get involved in a labour dispute that has kept Canada’s biggest cemetery closed for five…
“I can’t even go and leave them at my mother’s resting place because she doesn’t have one; she’s in a freezer. We’re asking the government to step in,” he said. “We’re suffering.”
The freezing rain, which downed power lines and cut off electricity for more than a million Quebecers and Ontarians on April 5, prompted closure of the cemetery just days after it had reopened amid the strike. About 90 groundskeepers have been without a contract since 2018 and on strike since January, union representatives say. Another 17 office staff walked off the job in December after going without a collective agreement since 2017.Article content
“Essentially, we have to provide services to family with only eight people, and at the same time do the cleanup of the site,” which stretches across 139 hectares, Granger said.
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