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It doesn't seem the CP Rail strike is destined to last.

The federal government is planning on setting a legislation to end the strike and they are meeting this morning, though CP workers still feel that fatigue is a major issue that needs to be dealt with.

The strike began at a midnight Saturday for the Teamsters union, with over 3,300 conductors, train workers and locomotive engineers heading for the picket lines once negotiations in Montreal had not been made.

President of the Teamsters, Douglas Finnson, says the government's bill is "premature," and that issues of fatigue and working conditions still need to be bargained before they are settled.

Along with Finnson, Doug Fast, a picket organizer in Saskatoon, said that it is tough to know when they are going to be heading to work and "as a result, it's very difficult to try and know when you're supposed to be rested and ready for duty."

Though the strike occurred for members of the Teamsters union, the strike for Unifor members was dodged, after a tentative agreement was made not long before the strike would have occurred.