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About 3,200 workers at Canadian National Railway Co. went on strike at midnight Tuesday, threatening to crimp shipments of oil, potash and grain across the country. Conductors and railyard operators at Canada’s largest railway walked off the job after failing to reach an agreement with the company over issues including working conditions and drug benefits, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference union said. “Unfortunately, we were unable to reach a deal with CN,” the union said in a statement. Workers have been without a contract since July and served a strike notice on Saturday. CN Rail is one of two main rail networks that Canada uses to ship consumer goods and exports of canola, wheat, potash and other resources from the prairies to seaports. The company carries $250 billion worth of goods annually and has increasingly been moving into shipping oil amid a bottleneck of pipelines from Alberta’s oil sands. Due to the existing situation at CN RAIL, your Union Executive have retained Canadian Benefits to provide a Health and Welfare claim service for Members and their dependents covering certain emergency services. Please read the following carefully. https://t.co/16GWhqGWIR pic.twitter.com/medPksNgrJ — Rail Conference (@TeamstersRail) November 18, 2019 A representative for the […]
