June 8, 2012 | CP, Headlines, KCS
(Source: Associated Press, June 7, 2012) NEW YORK — Shares of some top railroad companies were mixed at the close of trading on June 7, including CP Rail, which fell 0.6 percent, and Kansas City Southern, which rose 1.4 percent. Full story: CBS...
June 7, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post opinion column, June 5, 2012) OTTAWA, Ontario — So what will happen if Hunter Harrison cannot get the operating ratio dramatically down and the stock price up? A reasonable expectation would be that Pershing will opt to sell to a U.S. railway...
June 6, 2012 | CP, Headlines, War on Workers
(Source: Canadian Labour Congress press release, May 28, 2012) OTTAWA — The President of the Canadian Labour Congress has slammed the Conservative government for imposing back to work legislation in a labour dispute between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and the...
June 4, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, June 1, 2012) MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific Railway says company operations are returning to normal after Parliament ordered striking workers back on the job. The union representing the 4,800 strikers, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, asked...
June 4, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Sudbury Northern Life, June 1, 2012) SUDBURY — Canadian Pacific Railway workers are back on the job today after a back-to-work legislation received Royal Assent on May 31. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said its members are not happy with the federal...
June 1, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, May 28, 2012) OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are defending their plan to force striking Canadian Pacific Railway employees back to work as a way to keep the economy on track, while the union representing 4,800 workers says their collective...
June 1, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference website, May 30, 2012) OTTAWA, Ontario — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has posted a photo gallery on its website showing members standing strong on picket lines in the union’s strike against Canadian Pacific...
June 1, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, May 31, 2012) LAVAL, Ontario — The back-to-work legislation has received the Royal Assent this afternoon (Thursday) not long after Teamsters Canada’s lobbyist, Phil Benson, appeared before the Senate. The...
June 1, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg News, June 1, 2012) NEW YORK — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s (CP) striking Teamsters workers are returning to their jobs today after Parliament passed a bill to end the weeklong labor action that snarled industry supply chains and seaport traffic....
May 31, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: The Chronicle Herald, May 30, 2012) OTTAWA — Back-to-work legislation designed to end a CP Rail strike and get freight moving won’t get passed in the Senate until Thursday at the earliest, despite its overnight passage in the House of Commons. MPs voted just...
