February 11, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, February 10, 2015) OTTAWA — Teamsters Canada Rail Conference has given Canadian Pacific Railway 72-hour strike notice, meaning 3,300 locomotive engineers, conductors and other train workers could walk off the job midnight on Saturday. Full story:...
February 10, 2015 | CP, Headlines
(Source: Globe and Mail, February 7, 2015) TORONTO — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is calling for an end to a government-imposed limit on revenues the country’s two major railroads can make hauling grain in Western Canada, a measure designed to protect farmers from...
February 10, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian Press, February 10, 2015) OTTAWA — Mere weeks after a report worried about the slow pace of hauling grain off the Prairies, shippers in Saskatchewan are bracing for the possibility of a labour disruption involving Canadian Pacific Railway engineers...
February 9, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, February 6, 2015) OTTAWA — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) alleges that CP Rail is violating a recent ruling regarding the use of union workers to teach CP Rail managers and office workers to operate trains. The union claims managers are...
February 9, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, February 7, 2015) CALGARY — Today the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) members employed as Locomotive Engineers, Conductors, Trainmen and Yardmen throughout Canada has provided their National Bargaining...
February 6, 2015 | CP, Headlines
(Source: The Western Producer, February 5, 2015) SASKATOON, Sask. — Canadian Pacific Railway has raised a red flag over a recent report on rail performance commissioned by a coalition of agricultural shippers in Western Canada. Full story: The Western...
February 6, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: The Gazette, February 4, 2015) DUBUQUE COUNTY, Iowa — A Canadian Pacific train derailment Wednesday near Dubuque that caused three tank cars to erupt in flames and three others to plunge into the icy Mississippi River involved outdated cars prone to punctures...
February 5, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Oil Train
(Source: Reuters, February 4, 2015) NEW YORK — Eleven railway cars carrying ethanol fuel derailed on Wednesday in a remote location north of Dubuque, Iowa, and three of them caught on fire, Canadian Pacific (CP) railway said. No injuries were reported. Full story:...
February 3, 2015 | CN, CP, Headlines
(Source: Financial Post, February 2, 2015) OTTAWA — In 2011, Pershing Square Capital Management, an activist hedge fund founded by William (Bill) Ackman, acquired some 14.2% of Canadian Pacific Railway’s outstanding shares and proceeded to require several changes in...
February 2, 2015 | CP, Headlines
(Source: CBC News, February 2, 2015) CALGARY — A Canadian railway company is training its non-union managers and office workers to drive locomotives and load trains, a move one labour lawyer says could be an attempt to prepare for a possible work stoppage. Documents...
