(Source: Sudbury Northern Life, June 1, 2012)
SUDBURY — Canadian Pacific Railway workers are back on the job today after a back-to-work legislation received Royal Assent on May 31. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference said its members are not happy with the federal government’s move to force them back to work, but are advising the 4,800 union members to obey the law and report to work.
“The drastic cut in pensions angered our members,” Doug Finnson, TCRC vice-president and chief negotiator, Doug Finnson. “A pension plan is a deferred salary, not just money the company can distribute to its shareholders and managers without being accountable to anyone.”
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