May 31, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, May 29, 2012) TORONTO — Ottawa’s move to halt a strike at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. will get the trains rolling again soon, but back-to-work legislation is being flagged as part of a worrying pattern of government intervention that could...
May 31, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Dow Jones, May 31, 2012) OTTAWA — Canadian Labor Minister Lisa Raitt said it is unlikely freight service at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) will resume Thursday due to delay tactics by opposition politicians in the upper house on a bill to end the...
May 30, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Straight Goods News, May 28, 2012) OTTAWA, Ontario — Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Vice President and Negotiator Doug Finnson discusses the back to work legislation tabled in the house by Lisa Raitt, and circumstances surrounding the negotiations. Full...
May 30, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, May 30, 2012) OTTAW, Ontario — Federal labour minster Lisa Raitt tabled a back-to-work bill in Parliament Monday to put an end to a strike at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. Ms. Raitt also put forth a motion to expedite the bill’s passage...
May 30, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Rabble.ca, May 29, 2012) On May 23, 4,800 CP Rail workers went on strike after giving a 72-hour strike notice on May 19. The workers, represented by the Teamsters Rail Conference of Canada, had voted 95 per cent in favour of a strike on April 27. The major...
May 30, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Sudbury Star, May 28, 2012) SUDBURY, Ontario — Ryan Rushton knew the shoe would drop, but that didn’t make it any easier to accept. Rushton, a picket captain for the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Local 308 in Sudbury, and about a dozen picketers...
May 30, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg News, May 30, 2012) NEW YORK — Canada’s House of Commons passed legislation forcing an end to the weeklong strike at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. that clogged industry supply chains and hampered traffic at the country’s two biggest ports. The law,...
May 25, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Canadian Press, May 24, 2012) CALGARY — Companies that rely on Canadian Pacific Railway to move their products across the country were looking at their alternatives on Day 2 of a walkout by 4,800 employees. Full story: Toronto Star
May 25, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Bloomberg News, May 24, 2012) NEW YORK — A Teamsters strike that shut down Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. freight lines in the country has left incoming container shipments piling up at the Port of Montreal, where the railroad handles more than half of all...
May 25, 2012 | CP, Headlines
(Source: TCRC press release, May 27, 2012) OTTAWA, Ontario — The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is no longer involved in the negotiations process between Canadian Pacific (CP) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) since 1400 Eastern Time. There...
