Montreal cemetery workers will study new management offer

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/08/17/cemetery-offer.html

Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2007 | 1:44 PM ET
CBC News

Union negotiators for locked-out gravediggers and maintenance workers at a Montreal cemetery say they will study a new management offer and show it to workers on Saturday.

Management at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges made the new offer in hopes of ending a dispute with 125 of its workers that began May 16. The union has been without a contract since 2003.


Striking workers walk the picket line at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in May. The lockout began on May 16.
(Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)

Talks between the two sides resumed on Monday, supervised by government-appointed conciliator Denis Giasson.

This was the seventh round of discussion and it came partly in response to a call last week by Montreal's archbishop, Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, for a prompt end to the lockout.

No bodies have been buried since the workers were locked out in May. They are being kept in cold storage.

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