December 1, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Teamsters Canada Rail Conference issued the following on December 1, 2009.) MONTREAL — Late Sunday afternoon, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) offered yet another possible solution to Canadian National Railway (CN) to resolve the present impasse between...
November 30, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(The Canadian Press circulated the following on November 26, 2009.) BOSTON BAR, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board has ordered a full investigation of a CN Rail derailment in southern B.C. last week that saw two men trapped in a locomotive while thousands of...
November 30, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by Brent Jang appeared on the Globe and Mail website on November 30, 2009.) TORONTO — A strike by Canadian National Railway Co. locomotive engineers threatens a nascent recovery in freight shipments. Canada’s largest railway, which is seen...
November 30, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following by Greg Quinn on November 29, 2009.) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co., whose unionized locomotive engineers went on strike yesterday, rejected an offer for binding wage arbitration because it didn’t include a clear...
November 30, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(The following story by John Ibbitson appeared on the Globe and Mail website on November 29, 2009.) OTTAWA — The federal Conservative government is planning to introduce back-to-work legislation Monday to force an end to a strike by Canadian National’s...
November 25, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Financial Post website on November 24, 2009.) TORONTO — A potential labour disruption could be looming at Canadian National Railway Co. after the country’s largest railway decided to unilaterally impose contract changes on 1,700 of its...
November 24, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(Reuters circulated the following on November 23, 2009.) VANCOUVER, B.C. — Canadian National Railway Co. (CNR.TO) (CNI.N) will implement part of its contract proposals on its Canadian locomotive engineers, the carrier said on Monday. The announcement by Canada’s...
November 24, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(Teamsters Canada Rail Conference issued the following on November 23, 2009.) OTTAWA — Talks between Canadian National Railway (CN) and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) representing approximately 1700 locomotive engineers, to renew their Collective Agreement,...
November 20, 2009 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Teamsters Canada Rail Conference issued the following on November 19, 2009.) OTTAWA — A CN train crew is now resting comfortably at home after hitting a rock/mud slide at mile 8 on the CN Yale subdivision approximately 10 kilometers south of Boston Bar, B.C. Although...
November 18, 2009 | CN, Headlines
(CN issued the following on November 17, 2009.) CHICAGO — CN announced today a voluntary mitigation agreement (VMA) related to its acquisition of the principal lines of the former Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) with the Village of Lake Zurich,...
