MONTREAL — Montreal’s 19,000 commuter train users were breathing a sigh of relief on Tuesday morning, as the Montreal transit authority confirmed the AMT trains would be running as normal.
Federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch said Monday afternoon that it was imperative the AMT commuter train service was back on track for the Tuesday morning rush hour.
“It is my number one priority with respect to getting people back to work,” she said from Ottawa.
The two-day Canadian Pacific Railway strike was put on hold, after the Teamsters, the union representing more than 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors, and CP Rail’s management have agreed to go to arbitration.
The two sides may still be far from reaching a labour contract but the joint consent to seek arbitration to settle their differences should spell good news for more than 19,000 AMT riders on three lines: Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme and Candiac.
Fanie Clément, a spokesperson for the AMT said via text on Monday afternoon that putting the trains back on the tracks as scheduled depended on ”the return to work protocol by the Teamsters.”
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