Locked-out Winnipeg railway workers on picket lines
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This article was published 22/08/2024 (456 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Train conductors and engineers took to picket lines Thursday across Winnipeg on the first day of the largest railway lockout in Canadian history.
CN and CPKC shut down Canada’s freight rail network after contract negotiations with the Teamsters Union broke down.
“For the most part, we are just trying to keep what we have,” said Virgil Siedler, a CPKC conductor and locomotive engineer.
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Locked-out employees took up the picket line at CN’s Symington Yards in Winnipeg starting Thursday morning.
“It seems like both railways are more interested in getting us legislated back to work than negotiating a collective agreement.”
Siedler was on the picket line since 8 a.m. at the CPKC rail yard on Keewatin Street.
He said the union offered to stagger the CPKC and CN strikes by a month.
However, since both companies decided to lock out employees, the union was left with no choice but to picket, said Siedler.
Matt Ivall, a CN engineer, called the lockout malicious and the rail companies’ expectations unrealistic.
“We’re just looking for a status quo agreement. The consensus here is that people are happy with how things are,” Ivall said outside Transcona’s Symington Yard.
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