Tentative deal to get CP back on Rail

Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said they have reached a four-year tentative agreement to end a strike hours after it began. The parties also reached a five-year deal for the Kootenay Valley Railway.

The union said full operations at both railways will resume the morning of May 31 across Canada.

Union president Doug Finnson called the deal a fair contract that its members can feel good about.

With the strike now over, Todd Lewis, president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan has said, “I think we’re going to be okay now, this isn’t going to be a prolonged stoppage. The damage has already been done in a lot of cases, so we just have to start trying to fix those issues. I guess if we can just make it rain now, everything will be much better.”