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Canadian Rail Strike: Not Ridin’ That Train

Two Canadian railroads have done exactly what they threatened to do yesterday (my post here) in the face of a looming simultaneous railway strike – lock their workers out before the strike deadline.

Channeling Mills Lane in Celebrity Deathmatch, owners of the Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) have basically said to the unions…

As of a tad before midnight last night, negotiations between the companies and the Teamsters handling both groups of employees broke down, and it was over. It’s not a pretty picture this morning.

In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways has simultaneously ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year.

In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) and Canadian…

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