(The CBC posted the following article on its website on February 23.)
MONTREAL — CN Rail reported some minor delays in service as it enforced injunctions to limit picketing at facilities in Edmonton and Montreal over the weekend.
Spokesperson Mark Hallman said there were some minimal delays in freight schedules Sunday, “but nothing of any great significance.”
Hallman said there has been only “minimal impact” from the strike and passenger service has not been affected.
He said the injunctions allow people to enter and leave the terminals more easily.
It’s the third day of a strike by 5,000 of the company’s workers, who went on strike Feb. 20.
Union spokesperson Abe Rosner said the railway must be feeling the pinch or it wouldn’t have gone to court for injunctions.
Rosner insisted the strike is having an impact, saying the strikers have “seen everything from delayed trains to improper loading of cargo to trucks being turned back.”
Managers have been doing the work normally done by the strikers, who are members of the Canadian Auto Workers union.
A federal mediator remains on standby but there are no scheduled talks to resolve the strike.