CPKC workers push back on ministerial order, while CN trains temporarily resume
CN trains have started rolling across the tracks again after a Canada-wide work stoppage that began on August 22, however the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) has issued a 72-hour strike notice to CN that could see the stoppage resume at 10 a.m. on August 26.
Meanwhile, Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) shared in a statement late on August 22 that its union workers, “refused to discuss any resumption of service, and instead indicated that they wish to make submissions to challenge the constitutionality of the Minister’s direction, as well as the Canada Industrial Relations Board’s discretion to proceed with any order.”
A binding arbitration order was announced by Canadian Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon the same afternoon the stoppage began, a move that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh spoke unfavourably of. No comment has been made by the United Conservative party.
In Red Deer, CPKC workers remained on the picket lines Friday afternoon.