CN railroaders get 3% wage increase a year in ruling after shutdown last summer

Engineers and conductors at Canadian National Railway Co. will receive a wage hike of three per cent per year under a contract reached via binding arbitration Monday, capping off a labour standoff that halted freight trains across the country last summer.Six days of hearings over the past month yielded a three-year contract for some 6,000 employees retroactive to Jan. 1, 2024, according to the decision by arbitrator William Kaplan.