(The Canadian Press circulated the following on November 25.)
MONTREAL — CP Rail will keep rolling, at least until December.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says the union and company have agreed not to serve strike or lockout notice until Dec. 8 as the two sides try to forge a new contract.
The union represents about 4,500 locomotive engineers, conductors and assistant conductors at Canada’s second-largest railway operator. The last contract expired Dec. 31, 2006.
Earlier this month, union members narrowly rejected a tentative agreement reached by negotiators in early September.
Details of the rejected agreement have not been officially released. But it was said to have included improvements in wages, benefits and pension provisions and what the union called “the introduction of work-life balance issues.”