News / Canadian railways lock out Teamster employees as strike deadline arrives

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Rail operators Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPCK) formally locked out employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) a minute after midnight. 

“Without an agreement or binding arbitration, CN had no choice but to finalise a safe and orderly shutdown and proceed with a lockout,” it explained. 

Ocean carrier Hapag-Lloyd said Canadian rail ramps and marine terminals would remain open for pick-up of import containers, but warned that boxes not collected within the non-chargeable ’free’ time would ...