Canadian Pacific Railway initiates lockout in dispute with Canadian Teamsters
The Canadian railroad that acquired Kansas City Southern shut down train operations north of the border Saturday night, with the railroad and union officials blaming each other for the action.
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. has been in mediation with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents about 3,000 CP locomotive engineers, conductors, and train and yard workers in Canada. In dueling releases, Canada Pacific and the Teamsters each claimed that they were ready to keep negotiating…