The Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) will present its decision to CN and CPKC next month, the two railways said in separate statements.
The CIRB “informed CPKC (and CN) that it intends to issue its decision regarding the Ministerial Referral on the maintenance of activities by Friday, August 9,” CPKC said in its July 12 statement.
About 10,000 workers between the two railways and represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) planned to strike in May, but Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan intervened and asked the CIRB to get involved.
Under the Canada Labour Code, the minister can ask the CIRB to investigate and decide which activities n