About 3,000 workers of Canadian National Railway , the country's largest ra...
FILE PHOTO: A Canadian National Railway train travels eastward on a track in Montreal, February 22, 2015.. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
"Conductors, trainperson and yard workers at Canadian National Railway are now officially on strike," the union said in a tweetCanada, one of the world’s biggest exporters of farm products, relies on its two main railways to move canola and wheat over the vast distances from western farms to ports. Crude oil shippers in Alberta have also increasingly used trains in the past year to reach U.S. refineries as an alternative to congested pipelines.
Teamsters Canada spokesman Christopher Monette had said on Monday the strike comes because workers are “hitting a wall on issues related to health and safety”.
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