Hardball

• Published in: Waterfront Blues p. 227
• Main Authors: Alexander C. Pathy, Marianne Dufour, Curtis Fahey
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press 02.02.2004
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Agriculture; Agronomy; Alternative dispute resolution; Applied sciences; Arbitration; Biological sciences; Business; Business administration; Civil engineering; Civil law; Civil remedies; Crops; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employee compensation; Employment; Engineering; Field crops; Food crops; Government intervention; Grains; Harbors; Human resources; Job security; Labor economics; Law; Marine engineering; Marine structures; National politics; Occupations; Political organizations; Political parties; Political science; Politics; Ports; River ports; Stevedores; Technical personnel; Transport workers; Wage adjustments; Wage increases; Wages; Waterfronts
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442683259.17
• ISBN: 9780802089809; 0802089801

As the three-year collective agreement negotiated in 1972 was drawing to a close in 1974, after an illegal strike that had almost brought the Port of Montreal to its knees and resulted in the buy-out of some nine hundred dockworkers in the three St Lawrence River ports, the MEA was left with a debt approaching $17 million of which $5 million was owed the government. Although Del Taylor had told Masters, on two occasions in 1974, that the NHBʼs financial involvement was conditional upon the MEAʼs commitment never again to agree to the type of job-security plan currently in effect,