With the future of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission still in doubt, unionized engineers, conductors and trainmen have voted for strike action.
Two groups, the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, representing 100 workers in northeastern Ontario, voted 87 per cent and 91 per cent respectively in favour of strike action after talks stalled in late September.
Issues on the table include wages, benefits and pensions.
Both unions have been without contracts since last December.
The provincial government has not yet made a decision on whether to sell off the commission to bidders such as Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway or retain it under a joint management-union business plan.
