February 26, 2015 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CN press release, February 25, 2015) MONTREAL — CN announced today that members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference-Rail Canada Traffic Controllers union have ratified a new labour agreement. The four-year agreement covers approximately 180 rail traffic...
February 23, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Moose Jaw Times Herald opinion column by Mickey Djuric, February 18, 2015) MOOSE JAW, Sask. — When I think about what the Teamsters union wants and them not getting it, it shocks me that more people aren’t freaking out. In my eyes, CP Rail is the...
February 18, 2015 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, February 14, 2015) MONTREAL — Teamsters Canada Rail Conference is pleased to announce that a tentative 3 year agreement has been reached with Canadian National covering 1800 locomotive engineers across the country. Details will...
February 18, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Globe and Mail, February 17, 2015) TORONTO — Yet again, the Conservative government has shown its propensity to interventionism in the Canadian economy – an apparent deviation from its free-market principles. It’s almost as if the Conservatives had decided...
February 18, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: National Post editorial, February 17, 2015) OTTAWA — Strikes are blunt instruments, and should be used only when talks have irrevocably failed. But they are legal, and a government that respects the law must respect that reality. Full story: National...
February 17, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Associated Press, February 16, 2015) OMAHA, Neb. — Railroad officials say the brief strike by roughly 3,300 Canadian Pacific workers didn’t have a significant impact on U.S. rail traffic. Full story: Washington Post
February 17, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: New York Times, February 16, 2015) OTTAWA — A strike by about 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway unexpectedly ended on Monday, its second day, as both sides agreed to arbitration. The announcement came about half an hour...
February 17, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, February 16, 2015) OTTAWA — The parties have agreed to a mediation and arbitration process to address all of the outstanding issues which had caused the strike. One major issue is fatigue management and the necessity to...
February 13, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Calgary Herald, February 12, 2015) CALGARY, Alberta — With a second union at Canadian Pacific Railway now warning its members could walk off the job by midnight Saturday, Alberta farm groups are raising alarm bells about the impact a rail strike could have on...
February 13, 2015 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Montreal Gazette, February 12, 2015) MONTREAL — Commuters who use the Agence métropolitain de transport train network could be scrambling as early as Sunday if Teamsters follow through on their threat to strike. The Candiac, Vaudreuil-Hudson and St-Jérôme...
