In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.
locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties failed to agree on a new contract before the midnight deadline.7:15 a.m.: GO Transit says its service “may be busier than usual” as the rail work stoppage brings one of its commuter lines to a standstill, upending travel plans for thousands of daily commuters.
The regional transit service for southern Ontario’s Greater Golden Horseshoe region says rail service has been suspended at Hamilton GO Centre and on the Milton line, which cuts through Mississauga to Toronto’s downtown Union Station. Metrolinx, the provincial agency responsible for GO Transit, has said about 7,500 customers use the Milton line daily and 600 rail customers use Hamilton GO Centre.12:16 a.m.: Canadian Pacific Kansas City issues statement calling for the union to accept its offer to resolve the labour dispute with binding arbitration.The railway says binding arbitration would end the work stoppage and mitigate further harm and disruption to supply chains and the economy.12:01 a.m.
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