December 2, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Freight Waves, December 1, 2019) TORONTO — The end of the Canadian National strike couldn’t have come soon enough for Canada. Further disruption to the flow of goods – especially canola and wheat exports — could have been devastating to an economy whose...
December 2, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Toronto Star, December 1, 2019) CALGARY — Fatigue was one of the major factors behind a recent weeklong strike by 3,200 CN workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. According to fatigue experts and past research, railway crews awake for...
November 27, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, November 27, 2019) OTTAWA — Grain farmers in eastern Ontario and western Quebec say they’re relieved the week-long CN Rail strike has come to an end, and are hoping to resume the harvest as soon as they’re resupplied with the propane...
November 27, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, November 26, 2019) MONTREAL — After a weeklong strike, the Teamsters and Canadian National (CN) have reached a tentative agreement to renew the collective agreement for over 3,000 conductors, trainpersons and yard workers....
November 26, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Positive Train Control
(Source: Canadian National press release, November 25, 2019) CHICAGO — CN announced today that it has successfully met the federal requirement to operate Positive Train Control (PTC) on all 35 of its U.S. subdivisions required to be equipped with PTC. This important...
November 26, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Freight Waves, November 25, 2019) TORONTO — A Canadian federal minister signaled that the federal government would consider forcing an end to the nearly week-old strike by Canadian National workers that has taken an increasingly grave toll on the country’s...
November 26, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, November 25, 2019) MONTREAL — Teamsters Canada today released a recording of a CN supervisor, a chief rail traffic controller (RTC), ordering a fatigued conductor to continue working for several hours. The chief RTC ignored...
November 26, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Reuters, November 26, 2019) MONTREAL — Teamsters Canada said on Tuesday that there had been progress in negotiations with the Canadian National Railway Co to end a week-long strike that has severed supply chains across the country. There has been “progress at...
November 25, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Bloomberg, November 23, 2019) OTTAWA — Canada’s $1.7 trillion economy has long been closely tied to the ebbs and flows of global trade. Now, a homegrown crisis threatens to hobble its export industries and stunt its already weak growth. Full story: Financial...
November 25, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Globe and Mail, November 24, 2019) WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Bev Wieben is a farmer in northwestern Alberta’s Peace region, a slice of the province where roughly one-third of the crops remain unharvested. Farmers in the area ship grain on the Canadian National...
