By Allison Lampert and Rod Nickel
By Allison Lampert and Rod Nickel
MONTREAL/WINNIPEG, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal authorities despatched two ministers on Monday to satisfy with representatives of Canadian Nationwide Railway Ltd CNR.TO and its largest union, as already hard-hit shippers pleaded for presidency intervention to avert a strike deliberate for early on Tuesday.
The threatened strike by 3,000 staff with Teamsters Canada comes because the nation is grappling with softer demand for freight.
Labor Minister Patty Hajdu and Transportation Minister Marc Garneau had been to satisfy with representatives from CN, the nation’s largest railroad operator, and the union in Montreal, Hajdu’s press secretary Veronique Simard instructed Reuters, following a stalemate in contract negotiations.
CN has mentioned it continues to “negotiate in good religion” and had supplied the union binding arbitration which it declined.
The Teamsters and CN reached a last-minute deal in 2017 that averted a deliberate…