Potential CN, CPKC strike Was: Rail News

[TAC4]

CN Rail, CPKC begin halting shipments of certain goods as strike threat looms

 

[trentbob]

CN Rail, CPKC begin halting shipments of certain goods as strike threat looms

My understanding is the negotiating is going on this afternoon, not my purview but.. official Canadian government word is it will not impact public for a while? I'll leave it there.

Looks like August 22nd?

 

[gary123]

Looks like a strike will happen. So rail frequencies will be pretty quiet. I did hear that the maintenance groups will be active in some of the yards doing some general repairs while the tracks are inactive. !60.785 is a common one used.

 

[AK9R]

So rail frequencies will be pretty quiet.

While there may be some reduction in train movements, management and other non-union workers will probably be brought in to keep critical traffic moving.

 

[INDY72]

The CPKC US operations will not really be effected in the KCS end as this isn't a US issue, it's just a Canadian thing as I understand it. Not to mention the Mexican end of the deal. Just gonna be bad for anything out of Canada. And same with CN/IC as technically CN doesn't operate in the USA. (Great loophole for getting out of lawsuits they use.)