Canada's labor minister puts and end to CN and CPKC
work stoppage
Railroads must resume operations and enter binding arbitration
with Teamsters Canada
TRAINS.COM STAFF | FREIGHTWAVES
OTTAWA — Canada's freight rail work stoppage —
the first to shut down both Canadian National and Canadian Pacific
Kansas City simultaneously — is over.
Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon this afternoon ordered the
railways to resume operations after sending the disputes to binding
arbitration. The work stoppage began at 12:01 a.m. today after CN
and CPKC locked out engineers and conductors represented by the
Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, as well as CPKC rail traffic
controllers.
"These collective bargaining negotiations belong to CN
Rail, CPKC and TCRC alone — but their effects, and the
impacts of the current impasse, are being borne by all
Canadians," MacKinnon said. "As Minister of Labour, it is
my assessment that the parties are at a fundamental impasse.
Therefore, it is
