Mediation leads to three-year deal for workers at CN Rail

By Medicine Hat News on April 8, 2025.

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A mediated settlement between teamsters and CN Rail will provide about 6,000 unionized conductors, yard workers and engineers three per cent raises in each year of a three-year deal, the company said Monday.

It was part of wider railway labour disruption last fall including 5,000 workers on Canadian Pacific Kansas City lines, and more than 200 workers in Medicine Hat.

Ottawa ordered binding mediation to settle both work stoppages, and after “six days of mediation and a comprehensive arbitration process, arbitrator William Kaplan delivered his ruling,” according to a CN release.

The Teamsters Rail Conference had stated that working conditions and rest portions of the contracts were a large concern.

Comment from the union was not immediately available.

“Although CN remains disappointed that a negotiated agreement was not reached at the bargaining table, the Company is pleased to be moving forward … committed to modernizing the collective agreement for the benefit of employees, customers and the North American economy.”

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