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Canadian government moves to ends nationwide rail strike
Staff to return to work and trains expected to start running in days after ministers intervene
Canada’s federal government has moved to end a nationwide rail strike that threatened to grind supply chains to a halt, less than a day after it began.
With the government saying it would force the union and rail companies into binding arbitration, picket lines came down and workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) were ordered to return to work on Friday, the Teamsters union said.
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