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Engineers consider joining striking CN workers

(CBC Manitoba posted the following story on its website on February 27.) WINNIPEG — More than 130 engineers with Canadian National Railway are threatening to join striking Canadian Auto Workers. CAW-represented maintenance workers have been walking the picket...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Union, CN told to get talking

(The following article by Nicolas Van Praet was posted on the Montreal Gazette website on February 26.) MONTREAL — Federal mediators called on Canadian National Railway Co. and the Canadian Auto Workers union to resume talks yesterday after the union’s...

CN Rail, union to resume contract talks

(Reuters distributed the following article on February 25.) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co., the country’s biggest railroad, and the Canadian Autoworkers Union will resume contract talks later on Wednesday in a bid to end a six-day strike over...

CN gets picket-line prohibition

(The following story by Kathleen Martens appeared on the Winnipeg Sun website on February 24.) WINNIPEG — CN has obtained a court order to keep striking rail workers off sensitive property in Winnipeg. CN spokesman Mark Hallman said a judge granted an order...

Auto, grain shipments slowed by CN strike

(Bloomberg News circulated the following story on February 24.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ford Motor Co. and the Canadian Wheat Board said shipments of vehicles and grain are being disrupted by a labor strike against Canadian National Railway Co., which carries more...