Labour dispute stops Canada's two main freight railways - prolonged shutdown could cost billions

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Labour dispute stops Canada's two main freight railways - prolonged shutdown could cost billions
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The Canadian government has moved to end an unprecedented rail stoppage, announcing it would ask the country's industrial relations board to issue a back-to-work order. Canada's top two railroads had locked out more than 9,000 unionised workers.

The Canadian government has moved to end an unprecedented rail stoppage, announcing it would ask the country's industrial relations board to issue a back-to-work order. Canada's top two railroads had locked out more than 9,000 unionised workers.He's supposed to be at his job, but instead he's on the picket line.

Canada's two main railway companies, CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, have locked out more than 9,000 unionised workers. "In the current collective bargaining negotiations between Canadian National Railway, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, an agreement has so far proven elusive... These collective bargaining negotiations belong to these parties, but their effects, and the impacts of the current impasse are being borne by all Canadians.

At first the Canadian government was reluctant to use its power to refer the dispute to binding arbitration."We're on this, we're taking it so seriously. The Minister has engaged directly. We are not taking this lightly obviously because Canadians across the country are worried about it, and we will have more to say shortly on what we are doing to make sure that the right solution is found.

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