Medicine Hat bureau
The 750 striking International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Canadian National Railway are back at work after the union and company agreed to binding arbitration.
The three-week strike saw workers representing the signal and communication branch of the company take to the picket line last month after contract negotiations begun last fall broke down.
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Wages and benefits were at issue with IBEW and CN trading barbs during the dispute over the still yet to be resolved issues, with the union calling for “anti-scab” legislation to be passed after the company continued operations with replacement workers.
The company directly appealed to workers in a letter from the company’s vice-president outlining what CN called a fair deal for union members.
The 750 workers are expected back on the job today.
