(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on March 6.)
MONTREAL — Montreal riot police were called to open up access to a Canadian National Railway Co. train yard yesterday as striking workers picketed the entrance.
Company spokesman Mark Hallman said 50 to 60 workers had tried to prevent trucks from entering and leaving the terminal, and CN police contacted municipal police after the workers blocked a city street.
He said there was no violence and that traffic resumed at the site.
Abe Rosner, a spokesman for the Canadian Auto Workers, said the union is filing a complaint after two female picketers were “pushed around” by riot police the day before at the same site. He said contract talks had not yet resumed to try to resolve the legal strike that began Feb. 20.