Tentative agreement ends CPR strike

THUNDER BAY -- More than 100 local Canadian Pacific Railway employees will go back to work following a 16-hour strike.

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference reached a tentative agreement with the railway company Wednesday afternoon to renew the collective agreement for more than 3,000 conductors and engineers across Canada.

Both the conductors and engineers walked off the job late Tuesday night at the same time a tentative deal was reached with a union representing signal workers.

The conductors and engineers voted 94 per cent in favour of strike action in early April, and 98 per cent in rejection of CP’s final offer last Friday.

Local Teamsters chairman Jon Strapac cited fatigue issues as the workers' primary concern.

Guy Jarvis, the harbourmaster for the Thunder Bay Port Authority, told tbnewswatch the short-term impact would prove not to be significant.