(Reuters circulated the following article on March 15.)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s unionized train dispatchers and police in Canada have ratified new labor agreements, company and union officials said on Wednesday.
The three-year deal for the 250 dispatchers has annual wage hikes of 3 percent, 3 percent and 4 percent, and “work-life balance provisions” to make the jobs “more attractive for people looking for a career in the rail industry.”
The four-year contract for the 65 railway police officers has wage increases of 3 percent in each of the first two years, 4 percent in the third year and 3 percent in the final year.
Both of the contracts had expired at the end of December. The contract agreements do not involve CP Rail’s dispatchers or police operations in the United States.