March 28, 2014 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, March 27, 2014 TORONTO — Claude Mongeau, the CEO of Canadian National Railway Co., says a new law will subject his business to “unfair poaching.” But it sounds like what he’s really complaining about is, in plain English, more...
March 27, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: CBC News, March 25, 2014) OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway Co said on Tuesday will phase out its fleet of 183 older DOT-111 tank rail cars over the next four years as part of a safety improvement plan. Full story: CBC News
March 27, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, March 26, 2014) NEW YORK — Legislation tabled on March 26, 2014 by Canadian Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt to increase regulations on and oversight of railroad grain transportation, and to introduce...
March 25, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Reuters, March 25, 2014) TORONTO — Canadian National Railway Co and the Teamsters union will meet in Montreal on Wednesday to make a final attempt at reaching a labor deal for some 3,000 conductors, yard workers, and traffic coordinators, the two groups...
March 24, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Canadian Press, March 22, 2014) MONTREAL — CN Rail and its yard workers and train crews are going to try one last time to negotiate a new contract after already failing twice. CN says the union representing the three-thousand workers, the Teamsters...
March 21, 2014 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters
(Source: Reuters, March 21, 2014) TORONTO — Railway staff of Canadian National Railway Co have narrowly voted against a strike-busting labour agreement tentatively agreed upon by the company and workers’ union. Canada’s biggest railroad and the...
March 20, 2014 | Canada, CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, March 19, 2014) TORONTO — A record-shattering Canadian harvest, combined with one of the most frigid winters in decades, has created a grain-handling backlog that will not be cleared until next year, the head of Canadian National Railway (CN)...
March 14, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Journal of Commerce, March 12, 2014) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian National Railway told forest product shippers that the ongoing truck strike at the Port Metro Vancouver is preventing them from taking all of their lumber and pulp carload shipments for...
March 13, 2014 | CN, Headlines
(Source: Reuters, March 12, 2014) TORONTO — Canadian National Railway Co , the country’s biggest railroad operator, said on Wednesday it will meet the federal government’s order to ship 500,000 tonnes of grain a week, but its chief executive said...
March 13, 2014 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, March 12, 2014) TORONTO — Tensions are running high between Canada’s major railways and the government, with one key executive expressing to a Wall Street audience his anger at Ottawa’s criticism over the slow movement of grain. Full...
