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Article updated on August 22nd, 2024. Originally published on August 21st 2024.

[ID, image in the first comment: A retweet by Don Davies (@/DonDavies), NDP Vancouver MP. Both were posted on August 22nd. The first tweet says, "Some key facts to remember: CN and CP LOCKED OUT their workers and ended bargaining. Key issues involve safety, ensuring workers are not fatigued. The Union was and is ready at all times to negotiate in good faith. It’s the employers who are not, gambling with our economy."

The tweet he's quoting is by Bea Bruske (@/PresidentCLC), which says, "Solidarity with TeamstersRail workers locked out by CN & CP. These companies are risking the safety of workers & communities, making our supply chain vulnerable to derailments & accidents. Workers deserve safe work. The employers must get back to the table & bargain a fair deal."

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In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways has simultaneously ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CPKC) locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers after the parties failed to agree on a new contract before the midnight deadline. The impasse also affects tens of thousands of commuters in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, whose lines run on CPKC-owned tracks. Without traffic controllers to dispatch them, passenger trains cannot run on those rails. Pressure from industry groups and government to resolve the bargaining impasse has been mounting for weeks, with calls to hash out a resolution likely to ratchet up further now the work stoppage has begun.

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