CN Rail Offer Arbitration

CN Rail is offering to send just the issue of wages and benefits to binding arbitration in an effort to settle a strike by the railway's locomotive engineers.

The railway had previously insisted that all matters in dispute be sent to arbitration, but the company says it now would be willing to roll back a controversial mileage cap if the union withdraws its work-rule demands.

The 1,700 members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have been off the job since Friday.