No matter who is elected Montreal’s next mayor, labour relations will likely be a major focus as they take office.

Maintenance workers at the Société de transport de Montréal finished the second in a series of intermittent strikes this week and with no sign negotiations are progressing, more job action could follow.

The city’s blue-collar workers have a strike mandate, as do bus drivers and métro operators. Other unions, like the one representing the city’s white-collar non-professional workers, are entering into negotiations.

Blue-collar workers are proud of the work they do, but their salaries aren’t competitive, pushing workers to look for jobs at better-paying suburban municipalities or the private sector, said Jean-Pierre Lauzon, the president of the Syndicat des Cols Bleus regroup

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