Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is facing a possible strike that could shut down operations.
CP has been served a 72-hour strike notice by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.
The union represents five-thousand CP workers including conductors, trainmen, yardmen, locomotive engineers and rail traffic controllers.
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The company says the employees will be in a legal position to walk off the job at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday.
The workers last contract expired in January, and the union says CP is now demanding major concessions on pensions, work rules and wages.
CP contends it’s put a fair offer on the table, and says it’s willing to enter into binding arbitration.
Contract talks are continuing, but the railway says if there is a strike, it will “proceed with a safe and structured shut down of its train operations in Canada.”
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