The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ordered rail employees back to work, ending a dual work stoppage that brought freight trains to a standstill. This decision was mandated after an impasse in contract negotiations between the Teamsters union and two of Canada's largest railway companies, Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). On Thursday, Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to impose binding arbitration on the dispute between CN, CPKC, and the Teamsters union, which represents engineers, conductors, and yard workers.