Employees at two railway companies are in favour of a strike.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) announced that 97.6 per cent of CN conductors, locomotive engineers and yard workers, and 99 per cent of the same employees at CPKC, voted in favour of moving forward with a strike.
And rail traffic controllers at CPKC voted 95.3 per cent in favour of a strike.
This means if the union and employers can’t come to an agreement, a strike could occur as early as May 22.
“CN and CPKC, the message is clear,” Paul Boucher, president of the TCRC said during a May 1 news conference in Ottawa. “Your employees have spoken.”