Canadian Pacific Kansas City reaches tentative CBAs with SMART-TD, BLET

Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP) said it has reached new tentative collective bargaining agreements with the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Works – Transportation Division and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen consolidating 11 existing contracts across the company’s U.S. network into two new long-term hourly agreements. Each of the tentative agreements has a term from 2025 to 2034 and covers approximately 1,700 Train & Engine service employees across 11 states – Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. The SMART-TD agreement covers conductors, brakemen, and other train service employees, while the BLET agreement covers locomotive engineers and other T&E employees, bringing railroaders previously covered under multiple agreements into a modern, streamlined labor framework aligned with CPKC’s integrated North American network. The ratification of these two long-term hourly agreements, combined with the recently ratified Soo Line BLET agreement, would represent the conclusion of negotiations for approximately 81 percent of CPKC’s U.S. T&E workforce. The Soo Line BLET agreement ratified in December 2025 is not scheduled to reopen again for collective bargaining until 2029.