In less than a day, a strike that had the potential to cripple freight transport in Canada — key for miners and other companies moving product to market — ended.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said in a May 30 release that it and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, a union representing about 3,000 Canadian Pacific engineers and conductors, reached a tentative agreement to end the strike.
The deal, which requires ratification of members, comprises a tentative four-year agreement with Canadian Pacific staff and a five-year agreement with Kootenay Valley Railway staff.
The Teamsters said they would present it to members over the coming months, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported, but in the meantime, union members are going back to work as of May 31.
