Nov 19 (Reuters) - About 3,000 employees of Canadian Nationwide Railway CNR.TO, the nation's larges
Nov 19 (Reuters) – About 3,000 employees of Canadian Nationwide Railway CNR.TO, the nation’s largest railroad operator, went on strike on Tuesday, labor union Teamsters Canada mentioned after each events did not resolve contract points.
“Conductors, trainperson and yard employees at Canadian Nationwide Railway are actually formally on strike,” the union mentioned in a tweet.
Canada, one of many world’s greatest exporters of farm merchandise, depends on its two principal railways to maneuver canola and wheat over the huge distances from western farms to ports. Crude oil shippers in Alberta have additionally more and more used trains prior to now 12 months to succeed in U.S. refineries as an alternative choice to congested pipelines.
The union had issued a 72-hour strike motion discover interval to the corporate on Saturday after the talks reached a stalemate, setting the momentum for the primary strike at Canadian Nationwide in a decade.
Teamsters Canada spokesman Christopher Monette had mentioned on Monday the strike comes as a result of employees are “hitting…