TORONTO, CANADA, (AP / WJMC) — A labor lockout by Canadian National railways and Canadian Pacific Kansas City railways has ended less than 17 hours after it started.
The Canadian federal government stepped in to end the lockout over a union contract dispute and ordered the companies and union into binding arbitration.
The lockout halted trains on Thursday, disrupting wide swaths of the agriculture, manufacturing and industrial sectors. Canadian National cross-crosses northwest Wisconsin.
At Blue Diamond Proppant, near Poskin, rail and logistics manager Erik Newhouse said on Friday it was too early to tell the economic cost of the disruption. He said shipments could be delayed a week, which they could work around.
