Canadian Pacific Railway, Signal Workers Reach Tentative Deal

Canadian Pacific and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, System Council 11, today reached a tentative five-year labor agreement covering about 450 employees who maintain and install railway signals and communications systems across Canada.

Details of the preliminary contract are being withheld pending ratification by IBEW membership.

Separately, the United Steel Workers, Local 1976, which represents about 800 clerical and intermodal workers, recently ratified a five-year contract with Canadian Pacific  Eighty-seven percent of the membership voted in favor of the terms, which allow wage increases of 3 percent in each of the next five years and guarantee pensions. The contract is set to begin in January 2013.