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Teamsters Canada rail strike looms, Maersk halts Canadian imports

Automotive Logistics
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Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) union served a 72-hour strike notice to CPKC late last night .

CN and CPKC have been halting shipments and putting an embargo on dangerous goods in preparation for the potential strikes.

The union claims the companies have refused to properly implement duty and rest period rules.

CN claims it offered the union several new agreements that improved safety, wages and work life balance.

Little says a shortage of truck drivers has taken up what little spare capacity there was.

He says some OEMs will have likely already made alternative transport plans by switching a proportion of their freight from rail to road.

Val Kucherenko , Little’s soon-to-be successor at Michigan State University when Little retires at the end of the year , told Automotive Logistics that the effects of a strike would span across Mexico and the US too.

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