CP engineers, conductors serve strike notice

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Canadian Pacific Railway?s engineers, conductors, yardmen and rail traffic controllers have served strike notice to take effect Wednesday at 12:01 a.m.

The 72-hour notice, announced Saturday, does not necessarily mean a strike will begin at that time, but allows up to 4,800 workers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC),to walk off the job anytime after that point.

Meanwhile, CP said Saturday, the Teamsters and the company "continue to meet" with the assistance of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

However, Calgary-based CP said, "in the event there is a work stoppage, CP will proceed with a safe and structured shutdown of its train operations in Canada."

"CP believes the offer it has presented the union is fair and reasonable," CP chief operations officer Mike Franczak said in a release. "We are willing to enter into binding arbitration or negotiation period extensions should an agreement not be reached at this stage."

Any extension to the bargaining process, he said, "requires consent of the union or action of the federal government."

The federal government said in a release Sunday it "is concerned that a work stoppage is being considered and is taking this situation very seriously."

"I continue to encourage (CP) and the TCRC to either reach a deal or agree to submit to a binding process to settle their dispute and avoid a work stoppage," Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said Sunday.

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