Metrolinx has confirmed that due to the potential labour disruption, it has suspended GO Train service from the Hunter St. downtown Hamilton GO station and the Milton line on Thursday.
All other GO lines, the UP Express and Lakeshore West line stations, including Hamilton’s West Harbour GO station, will not be impacted.
Workers at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City are poised to strike at midnight.
GO trains ride rails owned by CN on those lines and the passenger trains can not ride on them if the workers go on strike or are locked out.
“To provide as much certainty as possible, we want to inform customers that due to the potential labour disruption, we are not able to run GO train service on the Milton line or at Hamilton GO station tomorrow,” says the announcement.
Metrolinx is encouraging riders to visit the GO Transit website for further information.
The job action by a total of 9,300 employees at both CN and CPKC would be unprecedented, marking the first-ever simultaneous work stoppage at the country’s biggest rail companies.
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