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CANADA MOVES TO END RAIL SHUTDOWN QUICKLY; CN WORKERS TO RETURN TO WORK

By David Ljunggren and Promit Mukherjee
August 23, 20243:33 PM GMT+2Updated 2 days ago
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Item 1 of 7 CN workers picket at the CPKC Toronto yard, after Canadian National
Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers
following unsuccessful negotiation attempts with the Teamsters union, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
[1/7]CN workers picket at the CPKC Toronto yard, after Canadian National Railway
(CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) locked out workers following
unsuccessful negotiation attempts with the Teamsters union, in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada August 22, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio Purchase Licensing Rights, opens
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 * Canadian National workers to return to work on Friday
 * Work stoppage at Canadian Pacific still ongoing
 * Labour Minister MacKinnon expects trains running within days
 * Business groups and companies demanded government action
 * Teamsters union says picket lines will remain in place for now

OTTAWA, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Workers at Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO), opens
new tab will begin returning to work on Friday, the Teamsters union said, hours
after the Canadian government moved to end an unprecedented rail stoppage.
The union said the work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP.TO), opens
new tab would continue pending an order from the Canadian Industrial Relations
Board (CIRB). The union and company officials are scheduled to meet with the
board on Friday morning.
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Canada's top two railroads, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific
Kansas City had locked out more than 9,000 unionized workers earlier on
Thursday, triggering a simultaneous rail stoppage that business groups said
could inflict hundreds of millions of dollars in economic damage.
The Canadian government on Thursday announced that it would ask the country's
industrial relations board to issue a back-to-work order that should come soon.
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The CIRB, which is independent, will now consult the companies and unions before
issuing an order.
CN had said it would end its lockout on Thursday at 6 p.m. ET (2200 GMT). CPKC
said it was preparing to restart operations in Canada and further details on
timing would be provided once it received the CIRB's order.
"I assume that the trains will be running within days," Labour Minister Steven
MacKinnon told reporters.

As well as requesting a back-to-work order, MacKinnon asked the board to start a
process of binding arbitration between the Teamsters union and the companies,
and extend the terms of the current labor agreements until new agreements have
been signed.
The sides blamed each other for the stoppage after multiple rounds of talks
failed to yield a deal.
In a new statement during the early hours on Friday, the Teamsters union posted
on X, opens new tab that it had taken down picket lines at CN.

CN spokesperson Jonathan Abecassis told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp it could
take the company a week or more to catch up on shipments.
MacKinnon's decision marked a change of mind by the Liberal government of Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau, which had said it wanted to see the matter settled at
the bargaining table.
"We gave negotiations every possible opportunity to succeed ... but we have an
impasse here," MacKinnon said.

"And that is why we have come to this decision today."

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Business groups and companies had demanded the government act.
Trudeau, in a post on X, said "collective bargaining is always the best way
forward," but added governments must act when faced with serious consequences to
supply chains and the workers who depend on them.
Canada is the world's second-largest country by area and relies heavily on
railways to transport a wide range of commodities and industrial goods. Its
economy is heavily integrated with that of the United States, meaning a stoppage
would roil North American supply chains.
"We are pleased the government has responded to our calls to intervene ... A
prolonged stoppage would have imposed enormous costs on Canadian business," the
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, an industry group, said in a statement.
The rail companies previously said they were forced into the lockouts to avoid
strikes at short notice. They said they had bargained in good faith and made
multiple offers with better pay and working conditions.
Paul Boucher, head of the Teamsters rail union, had accused CN and CPKC of being
"willing to compromise rail safety and tear families apart to earn an extra
buck".
Unions typically do not want contracts decided through arbitration as it removes
their leverage from withholding labor to secure better terms.
The left-leaning New Democratic Party, which has traditionally received strong
union support and props up Trudeau's government, opposed the government's
decision.
"Justin Trudeau has just sent a message to CN, CPKC and all big corporations -
being a bad boss pays off," party leader Jagmeet Singh said in a statement.
The stoppage has crippled shipments of grain, potash and coal while also slowing
the transport of petroleum products, chemicals and autos.
Tens of thousands of people who depend on certain commuter rail lines into
Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal were also hit by the lockouts, since all train
movement on these CPKC-owned lines had halted indefinitely.
The stoppage was largely rooted in scheduling, availability of labor and demands
for better work-life balance, according to the union and companies. It comes
after Ottawa introduced new duty and rest-period rules in 2023.

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Reporting by David Ljunggren and Promit Mukherjee in Ottawa, Abhinav Parmar,
Jahnavi Nidumolu and Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru and Allison Lampert in Montreal;
Additional reporting by Nathan Gomes and Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru and
Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Writing by Abhijith Ganavaparam; Editing by Rod Nickel,
Jamie Freed, Jacqueline Wong and Sriraj Kalluvila

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