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21 July 2006 -- Contract negotiations resumed today after a one-day rail strike by 250 employees threatened to cause significant delays in the delivery of coal and other products to the Gulf Coast.
Members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division (BMWED) of the Teamster's Rail Conference initiated a strike against the Canadian National Railway (CN) Wednesday over a contract dispute. BMWED's strike was targeted at properties of the former Grand Trunk Western, Detroit Toledo & Ironton, and Detroit Toledo & Shore Line portions of the CN. CN said the one-day strike did not affect its operations, but union officials said the strike impacted the company's operations in Michigan, northwest Ohio, Indiana and threatened to affect a much broader area if the strike continued.
BMWED served contract demands on CN in December 2004. The parties bargained and participated in mediation with the National Mediation Board through March 2006 when negotiations broke down, according to a BMWED press release.
Once the strike began, CN had sought an injunction against the union on Wednesday in a federal court in Toledo, Ohio. According to the The Toledo Blade, U.S. District Judge David Katz refused the injunction that would send the striking workers back to work, ruling that the firm did not prove its case for the injunction. The union and CN will resume contract negotiations today on issues of employee health care, seniority and contracting work outside of the union.
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