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Chemical firms hurt by CN strike
(The following story by Nicolas Van Praet appeared on The Montreal Gazette website on February 27.) MONTREAL -- Operations of at least two chemical companies in eastern Canada are being disturbed by the continuing strike at Canadian National Railway Co., an official...
CN Rail talks resume as strike threatens to spread
(Reuters distributed the following article by Charles Grandmont on February 26.) MONTREAL -- Canadian National Railway Co. resumed contract talks on Thursday to end a week-long strike that is threatening to spread from its offices and container yards to its locomotive...
CN, union hold short negotiation meeting; Engineers threaten to stop working
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story by Allan Swift on February 27.) MONTREAL -- Labour negotiators for Canadian National and striking Canadian Auto Workers held a short negotiating session Thursday, the first time since 5,000 CAW workers walked off the...
CN engineers threaten Winnipeg walkout
(Bloomberg circulated the following story by Rip Watson on February 26.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Canadian National Railway Co. engineers at the company's Winnipeg, Manitoba, terminal threatened to strike as early as tomorrow, saying a week-old walkout by mechanics has...
Amtrak claims its ills solved
(The following story by Tom Ramstack appeared on the Washington Times website on February 27.) WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Amtrak says it has resolved mechanical problems that plagued the early days of its Acela Express service and now hopes to use the high-speed trains as a...
UP train derails
(The following article by Gustavo Reveles Acosta was posted on the El Paso Times website on February 27.) EL PASO, Texas -- Railroad and emergency personnel worked Thursday at the scene of a train derailment near Ivey and Cathy in the Lower Valley. A Union Pacific...
Railroad workers’ wives protest at El Paso City Hall
(The following story by David Crowder appeared on the El Paso Times website on February 27.) EL PASO, Texas -- About 20 sign-waving wives of Union Pacific railroad engineers and conductors protested Thursday at City Hall about unsafe working conditions and the long...
Grocery workers may be close to settling
(The following story by George Raine appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle website on February 26.) SAN FRANCISCO -- Union and supermarket-owner negotiators are close to settling the barbed labor dispute in Southern California that began with a strike Oct. 11 and...
2 key unions vote to accept plan to merge
(The following article by Steven Greenhouse was posted on the New York Times website on February 26.) NEW YORK -- The nation's leading apparel workers' union and the leading union for hotel and restaurant workers have voted to merge, union officials said yesterday....
CN customers fret as talks resume on strike Day 6
(The Canadian Press circulated the following story on February 26.) MONTREAL -- Some Canadian National Railway clients reported a deterioration in service yesterday as the company and the union representing 5,000 of its striking workers agreed to resume contract...
