November 21, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: The Star Phoenix, November 20, 2019) SASKATOON, Sask. — A Canadian National Railway employee suffered minor injuries after being hit by a pickup truck on a Saskatoon picket line hours after the railway union began a nationwide strike. “It’s unacceptable that...
November 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian Press, November 19, 2019) MONTREAL — A strike by roughly 3,200 Canadian National Railway Co. employees over working conditions is prompting warnings from the railroad’s clients that the work stoppage could trigger layoffs and closures in their...
November 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Financial Post, November 18, 2019) MONTREAL — Canadian National workers have gone on strike during a critical shipping period for Western farmers, adding a new threat to wheat and oilseed sales already battered by trade tensions and difficult harvest...
November 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Meadow Lake Now, November 19, 2019) MEADOW LAKE, Sask. — Several CN rail workers in the Battlefords joined a national strike this morning. About eight picketers were seen walking along 101st Street in front of the railway station. The workers, who have been...
November 20, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian Press, November 19, 2019) MONTREAL — The federal government has urged Canadian National Railway Co. and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference to continue negotiating as the roughly 3,200 conductors, trainpersons and yard workers went on strike. The...
November 18, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, November 16, 2019) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co. is potentially cutting hundreds of jobs due to a slowdown in freight shipments that it blames on the wobbling North American economy and global trade wars. Canada’s largest railway on...
November 18, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, November 16, 2019) MONTREAL, Quebec — Given a lack of progress at the bargaining table, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) last night served notice of intent to strike to Canadian National Railway (CN)....
November 8, 2019 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Western Producer, November 7, 2019) SASKATOON, Sask. — About 3,000 workers at Canada’s largest railway company could go on strike as early as Nov. 19. Last month, members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) including conductors, trainpersons and...
November 7, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, November 5, 2019) MONTREAL — CN announced that its Western Canadian grain movements broke another record in the month of October, with shipments of 2.8 million metric tonnes (MMT) of grain and processed grain products. The previous record,...
October 31, 2019 | CN, Headlines
(Source: CN press release, October 31, 2019) DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia — CN is proud to announce today that it is sponsoring the transportation by rail of the last known Centurion tank in Canada to be on the front lines during the Korean War. The Centurion was loaded...
