The future of an unprecedented Canada railway stoppage hinged on a decision expected Saturday from a federal labour board amid an ongoing, bitter contract dispute between the country's two largest railway companies and the Teamsters union representing thousands of their workers.
A spokesman for the Canadian Industrial Relations Board said members were deliberating and set to issue a decision later Saturday. MacKinnon's directive said binding arbitration would produce a settlement to secure "industrial peace" and protect Canada's trade relationships and sectors hit hard by the shutdown.
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