The union and CPKC officials met with the Canada Industrial Relations Board on Thursday and will meet again Friday
However, the union said the work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.Following months of increasingly fraught contract talks, Canada ’s two biggest railways both locked out workers after failing to reach deals with the union by a Thursday deadline.
John Ibbitson: The railway worker lockout was incredibly damaging, with more disruptions on the horizon At a Thursday news conference, MacKinnon maintained the government is “committed totally to collective bargaining,” but said the impacts of the work stoppage are being felt by all Canadians.Each side had accused the other of failing to negotiate seriously. The union had said it did not want binding arbitration because the issues were too critical to be left to a third party.
The work stoppage affected not only supply chains across the country, but also tens of thousands of commuters in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver whose lines run on CPKC-owned tracks.
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