(Montreal) An agreement was finally reached at the port of Sorel-Tracy without the longshoremen having to exercise their strike mandate. The agreement has already been ratified and the agreement signed, reports CUPE.

The local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, represents about fifty longshoremen at the port of Sorel-Tracy.

The new four-year collective agreement provides wage increases totaling 16.5%, reports CUPE.

The big union also specifies that the new employment contract provides for an employment floor for “senior” and “regular” employees.

These union members had given themselves a strike mandate earlier this month. In the end, they did not exercise it. The tentative agreement came after 17 bargaining sessions since last summer.