CP Rail strike ends as two sides agree to arbitration

Roughly 3,300 striking engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. are headed back to work, but experts say serial government intervention is making future strikes more likely. The workers abruptly ended a two-day strike Monday, after CP and the Teamsters union agreed to arbitration, just as the federal government was poised to order them back on the job.
... “It chills bargaining,” explained Robert Paul Hebdon, an organizational behaviour professor at McGill University’s Desautels business school. “It becomes institutionalized.”

Read article here: The Globe and Mail, February 16, 2015