February 11, 2022 | Canada, CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) press release, February 10, 2022) MONTREAL — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) has served a Notice of Dispute to the Minister of Labor under the Canada Labor Code in accordance with the Canada Labor Code...
September 10, 2021 | Canada, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Thompson Citizen, September 9, 2021) THOMPSON, Manitoba — An inquest into the death of a man who was trapped for hours in a train following a 2018 derailment near Ponton won’t look at all the circumstances surrounding the crash, but mainly those surrounding...
January 27, 2021 | Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, January 26, 2021) LAVAL, Quebec — On January 26, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released its report into the accident which took the life of Brother Pierre-Luc Levesque, a CN conductor/foreman trainee, in...
September 8, 2020 | Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, September 2, 2020) OTTAWA — Rail operators in Canada have two years to install black boxes on their trains after the federal government published regulations in the Canada Gazette on Wednesday setting out the new safety requirements. Full story:...
June 17, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada Rail Conference press release, June 16, 2020) LAVAL, Quebec — A Canadian National (CN) conductor was fatally injured yesterday afternoon while working just outside of a rail yard in Prince Rupert, B.C. The worker was a man in his thirties who...
May 13, 2020 | CP, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Calgary Sun, May 12, 2020) CALGARY — Brake tests that gave the green light to a CP Rail freight train that derailed and killed three Calgarians last year near Field, B.C., were deficient, say federal inspectors. Full story: Calgary Sun
March 31, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Teamsters Canada press release, March 30, 2020) MONTREAL — The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) is taking issue with CN’s seeming lack of concern for its transportation workers. Union officials are being overwhelmed with complaints from their members...
March 4, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: Canadian Press, March 3, 2020) MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway Co. has started to call back most of the 450 workers temporarily laid off last month, when blockades brought the company’s eastern network to a near standstill. Full story:...
February 13, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: www.tvo.org, February 12, 2020) TORONTO — On a map, railway lines trisect Pickering: arteries of commerce and trade spanning the length of Lake Ontario’s northern shore. One of those lines, owned by Canadian National Railway, cuts the city in half along...
February 10, 2020 | CN, Headlines, Teamsters Canada
(Source: CBC News, February 8, 2020) WINNIPEG — A fired CN Rail manager has launched a wrongful dismissal lawsuit against the railway giant, saying he was fired without notice for his honest testimony at a labor adjudication hearing. Full story:...
