April 19, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Financial Post, April 19, 2018) OTTAWA — With a strike deadline just days away, Keith Creel, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s chief executive, said the company will not be “held hostage” in negotiations and is willing to experience the short-term pain of a...
April 18, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian Press, April 17, 2018) CALGARY — The union representing about 3,000 conductors and locomotive engineers at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it has formally served the company with a 72-hour notice of an intent to strike. The Teamsters Canada Rail...
April 16, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Bloomberg, April 15, 2018) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said a new labor agreement with thousands of train conductors and other workers remains elusive, less than a week before the deadline for the start of a strike that could cripple its...
April 9, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Reuters, April 6, 2018) MONTREAL — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers on Friday voted to authorize a strike action that could have the 3,000 workers walk off the job as early as April 21, Teamsters Canada said in a statement. Full...
March 23, 2018 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) press release, March 22, 2018) LAVAL, Que. — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) and Canadian National (CN) announced today that the parties have reached a tentative agreement to renew the labor contract for...
February 1, 2018 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Globe and Mail, January 31, 2018) TORONTO — A labor arbitrator has overturned the firing of a Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. conductor involved in the collision of two trains in midtown Toronto in 2016, saying the man’s culpability was mitigated by the...
January 22, 2018 | Headlines, Oil Train, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, January 19, 2018) LAVAL — The Teamsters Union is relieved by the acquittal of three Montreal, Maine & Atlantic workers who were accused of criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Mégantic derailment. The lengthy trial...
January 23, 2017 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Calgary Herald, January 20, 2017) CALGARY, Alberta — Depending on who you talk to, outgoing Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison is a polarizing figure, admired and loathed in seemingly equal parts. “Hunter Harrison’s legacy is a chronic shortage of...
January 16, 2017 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Calgary Herald, January 13, 2017) CALGARY — The union that represents conductors and engineers at Canadian Pacific Railway is asking employees to come forward if they feel they’ve been forced to go to work tired. On its website, the Teamsters Canada Rail...
November 10, 2016 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Calgary Herald, November 9, 2016) CALGARY — Canadian Pacific Railway is butting heads with one of its unions over its workplace fatigue practices, saying its efforts to bring predictable schedules and mandatory time-off periods to employees are being...
