Ripples from standstill at strike-bound Canadian ports could spread inland
Turmoil persists at Canada’s ports, with warnings that this could lead to spikes in road ...
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CTV News reports:
(Headline @ ~13.30BST, 22 August: “9,300 employees locked out: Latest updates on shutdown of Canada’s 2 largest railways”. To see how it ended, scroll down to the Reuters story published less than 24 hours after this post.)
In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways has simultaneously ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year.
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 disagreed on a new contract before the midnight deadline.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has begun posting pictures to social media of workers from Halifax to Vancouver setting up picket lines…
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PS: PANIC? NO PANIC! Less than 24 hours later: “Canada moves to end rail shutdown quickly; CN workers to return to work“.
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