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The administration of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heeding left-wing demands to stay out of a dispute between railroad companies and unions.
Canadian rail freight is dominated by two companies, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City . CPKC dispatchers also coordinate passenger rail travel in the big cities of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, since the passenger trains use rails that also handle large quantities of freight.
The negotiations are not going well. The union and the companies have accused each other of intransigence on their demands and bad-faith bargaining tactics.the two railroad companies are demanding too much “flexibility” in worker scheduling, and they want their employees to be more willing to relocate when required. The union argues these demands would lead to worker fatigue and increase the risk of accidents.
Canada’s small businesses are likely to suffer disproportionately from a railroad shutdown because big companies can work out alternative shipping plans with American railroads. For their part, American managers are worried because Canadian railroads handle about 15 percent of cross-border trade. A growing chorus of Canadian business leaders is telling Trudeau to stop listening to the Left and take action before the economy suffers irreparable damage. Associated Equipment Distributors president Brian P. McGuireto Trudeau and his labor and transportation ministers on Sunday, warning that a railway disruption “would have immediate effects on thousands of businesses across Canada.”
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