March 29, 2022 | Headlines, UP
(Source: SCOTUS Blog, March 25, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and rail workers. Just like in other recent railroad cases, this one at first...
March 29, 2022 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada, War on Workers
(Source: RankAndFile.ca, March 25, 2022) OTTAWA — CP Rail workers and management entered binding arbitration to resolve their labor dispute on March 22 — three days after workers were locked out by the employer. There was immense pressure on the Teamsters and CP Rail...
March 29, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines
(Source: Opinion column in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, March 25, 2022) IOWA CITY, Iowa — A proposed $30 billion merger between two of North America’s large railroads will jeopardize the environment, potentially delay getting critical agricultural goods to market and...
March 29, 2022 | CP-KCS Merger, Headlines, STB
(Source: Editorial in the Quad City Times, March 27, 2022) DAVENPORT, Iowa — When the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads announced plans to merge last fall, the idea that train traffic would triple through the Quad-Cities was alarming to a lot of...
March 29, 2022 | Commuter Rail, CP-KCS Merger, Headlines
(Source: Transport Topics, March 25, 2022) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Metra, one of the largest commuter railroads in the country, is objecting to the proposed $31 billion merger between Class I freight rail carriers Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway....
