Railroad Continues to Safely Shutdown Canadian Rail Community as Events Stay Far Aside
MONTREAL, Aug. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) has issued discover to the Teamsters Canada Rail Convention (TCRC) formally advising them of its intention to lockout Canadian TCRC-represented workers on Aug. 22 at 00:01 ET except an settlement or binding arbitration is achieved earlier than that point.
Regardless of negotiations over the weekend, no significant progress has occurred, and the events stay very far aside.
Until there may be a direct and particular decision to the labour battle, CN could have no selection however to proceed the phased and progressive shutdown of its community which might culminate in a lockout.
CN should proceed with the progressive and deliberate shutdown of its community, as we stay below the specter of an unpredictable strike discover. This deliberate shut down helps to make sure the protection of the communities during which we function and the protection of our prospects’ items, and to optimize the community’s restoration following a labour disruption. Further embargoes shall be issued on Monday August 19th.
Background on 2024 Negotiations and Presents
In January, CN provided the TCRC a modernized settlement that improved security, wages, and work/life steadiness whereas defending acquired rights. This supply was refused.
The supply was then improved in April with a concentrate on higher wages (75$/hour for Locomotive Engineers and 65$/hour for Conductors), job safety, and assured earnings for workers. The TCRC refused the improved supply.
In Could, CN then introduced a simplified supply inside the framework of the prevailing collective settlement with improved wages and predictable days off, which the TCRC additionally refused.
Within the absence of a path ahead, CN provided to voluntarily undergo binding arbitration in June. Binding arbitration is a course of the place each events empower a mutually agreed upon unbiased arbitrator to find out the phrases of a settlement. It’s an neutral strategy that may obtain a decision whereas avoiding a expensive disruption to provide chains, Canadian customers, and the Canadian economic system. The TCRC refused this supply.
All the data concerning the provides, together with particulars on the proposed wages, relaxation, and labour availability, is accessible publicly right here.
Present Relaxation and Wages
Relaxation:
- By combining Responsibility and Relaxation Interval Guidelines (DRPR), paid sick days, private go away days, and present relaxation and trip provisions of their collective agreements, conductors and locomotive engineers at the moment work roughly 160 days a yr.
Wages:
- In 2023, the typical conductor earned roughly $121,000, not together with pension and medical advantages.
- In 2023, the typical locomotive engineer earned roughly $150,000, not together with pension and medical advantages.
About Embargoes
Railroads difficulty embargoes when, within the judgement of the railroad, an precise or threatened bodily or operational impairment, of a brief nature, warrant restrictions in opposition to such actions. It’s notably essential within the occasion of labor disruption to forestall delicate and harmful items to be stranded on the community. The embargoes are efficient inside 48 hours of being issued.
Any product coming to, leaving, or transferring inside Canada on rail won’t be transported throughout a piece stoppage. Solely restricted prepare actions inside yards shall be executed as there are usually not sufficient licensed administration prepare crews to make sure intercity prepare actions.
Ought to a settlement be reached, or arbitration be agreed to, CN will take away its embargoes and resume regular operations.
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