MONTREAL — Contract talks resumed Thursday after Canada’s two largest railways locked out their employees overnight in what is an unprecedented shutdown of freight traffic across the country.
Following months of increasingly bitter negotiations, shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains still reeling from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year.
On Thursday morning, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference posted pictures to social media of workers from Halifax to Vancouver setting up picket lines, while sign-toting employees demonstrated outside CN’s headquarters in downtown Montreal.
Each side has accused the other of failing to talk
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