OTTAWA — A strike by about 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway unexpectedly ended on Monday, its second day, as both sides agreed to arbitration. The announcement came about half an hour before a bill was to be introduced in Parliament ordering the members of the union, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, back to work.
Canadian Pacific said the “ramp-up process” to resume train service had begun. Though it could not say precisely how long that would take, a spokesman, Martin Cej, said “it will be fast.”
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The railroad company said that 72 percent of conductors and engineers were not using all of the break time they were entitled to under the previous contract.
“Our conductors and engineers have plenty of options for time off, but the vast majority don’t take full advantage of those opportunities,” Mr. Harrison said in a statement issued last weekend. “We want to implement a model that allows us to properly schedule crews while maintaining the highest standards of safe railroading.”
