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CPKC and IBEW Agree to Binding Arbitration, Ending Months-Long Signal Workers' Strike

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of two vivid red Canadian Pacific locomotives hauling pale hopper cars and dark tank cars through a green rail yard beside several parallel tracks, rendered in warm ochre and slate-blue pastel strokes.

Canadian Pacific Kansas City said on August 21 that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Canadian Signals and Communications System Council No. 11 has agreed to enter binding arbitration, bringing the strike the union began on May 31 to an end. The company said it welcomes its employees back to work beginning Monday morning, August 24. The union represents approximately 300 signals and communications employees across Canada, according to the railway. Calgary-based CPKC operates a network of about 20,000 route miles and employs roughly 20,000 railroaders.

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