Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers have reached a tentative deal to end a strike that started Saturday.
Federal labour minister Rona Ambrose announced the deal in the House of Commons as Parliament was to debate back to work legislation, Reuters News Service reported.
Earlier in the day, CN dropped its position on increasing the engineers’ monthly mileage cap, asking in return that the workers, represented by the Teamsters, drop other work-rule changes they had demanded. Other differences regarding wages and benefits would go to binding arbitration.
The engineers walked out in reaction to the company’s unilateral decision to increase the monthly mileage cap to 4,300 miles from 3,800.
