{"id":4910,"date":"2014-03-23T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2014-03-23T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T10:41:11","slug":"cn-rail-and-its-employees-give-talks-one-last-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/23\/cn-rail-and-its-employees-give-talks-one-last-try\/","title":{"rendered":"CN Rail and its employees give talks one last try"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4911\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/543249_255092971254983_1287143170_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4911\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of CN Rail\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/543249_255092971254983_1287143170_n.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/543249_255092971254983_1287143170_n.jpg 180w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/543249_255092971254983_1287143170_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of CN Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8211; CN Rail (TSX:CNR) and its yard workers and train crews are going to try one last time to negotiate a new contract after already failing twice.<\/p>\n<p>CN says the union representing the three-thousand workers, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, has agreed to resume talks.<\/p>\n<p>CN says both sides have agreed the dispute will go to binding arbitration if negotiations fail.<\/p>\n<p>The workers rejected a second tentative contract on Thursday after turning down one in January.<\/p>\n<p>They were poised to take job action last month but the Harper government short circuited the threat by saying it would bring in back-to-work legislation.<\/p>\n<p>CN president and chief executive officer Claude Mongeau says the two sides will meet next week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very pleased that the Teamsters have accepted our offer to negotiate a settlement,&#8221; he said in a statement released Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Hours of work and contract language are the main unresolved issues.<\/p>\n<p>CN says it transports about $250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business, including natural resources and consumer goods.<\/p>\n<p>Note to readers: This is a corrected story, a previous version wrongly said the workers rejected a tentative contract last year. They rejected it in January<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MONTREAL &#8211; CN Rail (TSX:CNR) and its yard workers and train crews are going to try one last time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1300],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-cn-rail","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}