23 November 2007
CP Rail, Union Extend No-Strike Deal Through
8 Dec 2007
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Fred Green, president and chief executive officer of Canadian
Pacific Railway, talks at a news conference after the company's annual general meeting in Calgary, Alberta,
11 May 2007.
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Canadian Pacific Railway and the union representing its 4,500
locomotive engineers and conductors have extended a no-strike and no-lockout agreement through
8 Dec 2007 as they push ahead with talks to salvage a labour deal, the company said on Friday.
The deal to keep workers on the job was originally scheduled to end on Saturday.
At a ratification vote a week ago, 50.9 percent of those who cast ballots rejected a tentative contract, which the company and union
bargaining committees agreed to in September, forcing the two sides to reopen talks.
The tentative five-year deal had offered improvements in wages, benefits, and pension provisions, the union said at the
time.
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