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Federal government intervenes, orders end to CN and CP railway shutdown

This intervention, a direction to the Canada Industrial Labour Relations Board (CILRB), requires the two railway companies and the union to enter into binding arbitration and requires workers to go back to work and restart the railway operations.

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I'm so glad some unions aren't allowed to strike, especially when its for safer work conditions. Wouldn't possibly want those damn plebs to get enough sleep every day when they're operating a couple million tons of equipment!

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- Indeed. Workers exist in order to work. Why would workers want to strike, when instead they could be working? Good thing the government is stepping in to keep them in their place. /s
  
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- Do we really need another lac megantic incident? This is how we get another lac megantic incident.
  
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- It is going to arbitration, which seems like a funny way to resolve it but yeah.
  
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  It's going in forced arbitration. Big difference here.
  
  If both parties agreed to do arbitration, it would be dandy.
  
  But nowadays, the government is eager to shut down any strike with special laws sprinkled with bullshit, and fuck over the workers' right to strike.
  
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Cue special law in 3... 2... 1...

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So what if they continue to refuse to work? Police are going to force them? That's called slavery... no?

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Is it possible for the govt to bring in a pro-labour arbitrator and award a shit ton of demands to the workers?

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- That's not really 3rd party then.
  
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Government as strike-breaking scabs, imagine that.

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Imagine if the unions just refused and were able to successfully demand everything they wanted.

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