Canadian National Makes New Offer To Locomotive Engineers
CN is offering to agree to binding arbitration on wage and benefit issues, and roll back the 4,300-mile monthly cap for locomotive engineers to 3,800 miles, on the condition that the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which is representing 1,700 locomotive engineers, withdraws its work-rule demands from the bargaining table.
Officials with the Teamsters were not immediately available for comment.
The locomotive engineers went on strike Saturday. The previous contract between the union and the company expired Dec. 31.
The labor dispute has already started to impact grain and oilseed movement in western Canada, grain industry officials have said.
-By Dwayne Klassen, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; 204-947-1700; resnews@shawbiz.ca
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Publié le 02 Décembre 2009 Copyright © 2009 Dowjones
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