Exhausted worker's plea for rest spurs breakthrough in Canada rail strike -union

As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade dragged on with no resolution in sight, the recorded pleas of an exhausted rail worker who wanted a break after a 10-hour shift helped deliver a critical breakthrough, a union leader told Reuters on Tuesday. The audio recording http://teamsterscanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2018-Oct-19-exhausted-worker.mp3, released on Monday by Teamsters Canada, cut to the heart of workers’ demands in the eight-day-old strike, which rippled through the country’s economy from disrupted grain exports to planned layoffs. While Reuters could not independently verify the recording, its release helped change public perception and acted as a catalyst for a deal reached on Tuesday with Canadian National Railway Co, Teamsters Canada President François Laporte said.