Operations resumed on the river locks west of Montreal at 7 a.m. Monday, after the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. and the union representing 360 workers agreed on terms of a new contract. They had been on strike for a week, over what the employer described as a basic disagreement about whether the seaway workers’ pay should be guided by recent settlements in the auto industry. (The Logic)

Talking point: The Unifor-represented workers still have to vote on whether to approve the agreement; last summer’s on-again, off-again strike by Vancouver port workers showed that’s not always a sure thing. Although the value of seaway cargo is much less than the Vancouver port’s, it’s a major route for bulk goods, including exported crops and raw industrial materials that operations like the steel mills in Hamilton, Ont., stockpile before the winter freeze.