It may be back to the picket lines for members of the UTU, the union representing thousands of workers at Canadian National Railways.
The results of the vote on the labour agreement tentatively reached in February between CN and the UTU were released on Tuesday night with wide discrepancies in the vote total. Opinion 250 out of Prince George stated that it was rejected by close to 80%, while earlier reports from the mainstream media had the rejection vote total pegged at 67%.
Regardless it would seem that the terms of agreement did not meet with the membership's approval and we wait for the next shoe to drop in the dispute.
Late Tuesday night it was decided that rotating picket lines would be set up at selected locations across Canada by Wednesday morning.
Job action in February brought grain shipments from Prince Rupert's Grain Terminal to a standstill and caused a great degree of difficulty and concern not only in Canada's farm land, but in the industrial base of Ontario, where auto plants, chemical plants and other industrial users found supplies dry up and delivery schedules left in ruin.
At that time the Federal Government was poised to declare the strike not in the country's interest and went so far as to prepare to legislate the workers back to the job. Should there be a replay of the troubled days of that strike, it's expected that the government will be dusting off it's legislation and bringing it up in front of Parliament as soon as possible.
CN offered up its interpretation of the events on its website, while the UTU did much the same from their portal.
The major news sites all had stories on the decision and it's potential impact on the economy.
CTV News/Globe and Mail
CBC News
Canada.com
The results of the vote on the labour agreement tentatively reached in February between CN and the UTU were released on Tuesday night with wide discrepancies in the vote total. Opinion 250 out of Prince George stated that it was rejected by close to 80%, while earlier reports from the mainstream media had the rejection vote total pegged at 67%.
Regardless it would seem that the terms of agreement did not meet with the membership's approval and we wait for the next shoe to drop in the dispute.
Late Tuesday night it was decided that rotating picket lines would be set up at selected locations across Canada by Wednesday morning.
Job action in February brought grain shipments from Prince Rupert's Grain Terminal to a standstill and caused a great degree of difficulty and concern not only in Canada's farm land, but in the industrial base of Ontario, where auto plants, chemical plants and other industrial users found supplies dry up and delivery schedules left in ruin.
At that time the Federal Government was poised to declare the strike not in the country's interest and went so far as to prepare to legislate the workers back to the job. Should there be a replay of the troubled days of that strike, it's expected that the government will be dusting off it's legislation and bringing it up in front of Parliament as soon as possible.
CN offered up its interpretation of the events on its website, while the UTU did much the same from their portal.
The major news sites all had stories on the decision and it's potential impact on the economy.
CTV News/Globe and Mail
CBC News
Canada.com
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