I mean the government gave them more than enough time to figure it out.
From what I understand the contract was expired for a year.
They had 5 weeks to figure it out once the strike started.
At some point I think the government looks at it and says there is no good faith attempt to actually fix the problem. Pretty obvious this is what is going on here.
Don't agree with the force back to work, but funny how all the outraged people here provide no alternative to what the government should actually do when it is clear that there are a few dozen morons who will hold 55,000 people and millions of Canadian hostage because they can't agree on a deal that works for both sides.
Imagine if this happened in every single hockey contract negotiation.
Team offers $5 million.
Player wants $10 million.
And they literally just don't change their offering or negotiate on something that works for both.
With CP and the union, the process was clearly hijacked in such a way where there is no attempt to fix anything.
Especially on the CP side.
Billions in revenue lost, millions of customers lost (perhaps forever), pissed off employees, list goes on. Has there ever been a strike that is going to equal a worse result? If I were a CP employee right now, I wouldn't stick around very long.
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