Port of Montreal strike starting Monday could cost the economy $29 million a day, businesses warn

Longshoremen at the Port of Montreal will enter a general strike on Monday, escalating a labour dispute that business groups are describing as a “worst-case scenario” for the Canadian economy. When dock workers started a work slowdown on April 13, logistics firms and manufacturing groups had warned that the resulting bottleneck could halt some production lines almost immediately. Now the Canadian Union of Public Employees...