On Nov. 16 Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons which represents 3,200 CN employees have given a 72-hour notice to strike as of midnight tonight.
Work safety is a major issue for workers in these negotiations according to Teamsters. Fatigue has also been recognized as a key issue in the talks.
Teamsters believes that CN would not be able to achieve their gains bargaining in good faith.
“CN is telling our members that they are facing tough times, but the reality is that they made over $3.8 billion in the third quarter of 2019. They should be ashamed to be pleading poverty, added Lyndon Isaak president of the TCRC. This obsession with profits and shareholder return, at the expense of just about everything else, is exactly what is wrong with our economy.”
A work stoppage would bring CN’s operations to a halt but would not affect public transportation.
Talks with the company are ongoing in Montreal.
