Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet says a resolution has been reached in the months-long standoff between workers and management at Canada’s largest cemetery.
Boulet said on Twitter today the two sides in the dispute at Montreal’s Notre-Dames-des-Neiges Cemetery have agreed to support the recommendation of the province’s head mediator.
The strike by more than 100 maintenance and office workers has kept the graveyard’s wrought-iron gates shut to the public since mid-January, with the exception of a few days in the spring.
About 300 bodies have gone unburied as a result of the job action, with the remains stored at freezing temperatures in an on-site repository….