CN Rail, TCRC seek arbitration after talks fail
Published: December 13th 2009
Source: Canadian Press
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MONTREAL - Unresolved wage and
benefits issues affecting 1,700 CN (TSX: CNR)train engineers will be
submitted to binding arbitration.
The decision was made after renewed talks between the company and
Teamsters Canada ended Sunday without a settlement. A strike by the
engineers was settled on December 2nd, but the issues of wages and
benefits were left unresolved,.
Both sides agreed, as part of the settlement, to send the issues to
third-party arbitration if further talks failed to resolve them.
Labour Minister Rona Ambrose will now appoint an arbitrator, who
will have 90 days to hand in a final decision on a new agreement.
The agreement reached on December 2nd came just ahead of federal
legislation that would have forced the engineers back to work.
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