A potential rail strike will not happen this month as rail companies and workers await a decision from the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) said today.
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Rail strike won’t happen this month, CPKC says
CPKC, Teamsters to continue meeting as Canadian Industrial Relations Board deliberates
Alberta urges Trudeau to head off port and rail strikes
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do all he can to head off potentially devastating strikes by railway and port workers.
Federal government moves to push back possible rail strike
The federal government is moving to push back the start of a possible strike by railway workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), an official said on Friday.
Railway strike vote dismays farmers
Grain Growers of Canada calls on railways, workers to resolve their differences
Grain Growers of Canada is sounding the alarm over a potential strike by workers at both of the country’s major railways.
Railway workers at CN, CPKC vote to strike, says union
Thousands of railway workers in Canada at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) have voted overwhelmingly to strike as early as May 22, the union said today.
Rail strike looms as CN, CPKC workers take action to a vote
Any labour disruption could be weeks away, but the grain sector is still wary
Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) are in the middle of a strike vote. The vote comes after three collective agreements, covering CN and CPKC engineers and conductors as well as rail traffic controllers at CPCK, expired December 31.
CN train stopped by demonstrators in Winnipeg, union says
A union representing striking workers in Halifax said it stopped a CN train in Winnipeg yesterday as part of escalations against that company.
CN closes deal on Iowa railway
The agreement will link about 275 track miles to the carrier's U.S. rail network
Canadian National Railway (CN) has inked a deal to buy an Iowa railway and connect it to its U.S. rail network, the company announced Dec. 6.
Preview: Railways, grain shippers at loggerheads over interswitching
Pilot to test expanded radius deemed unnecessary by both sides
Recent legislation has raised the stakes in a decade-long battle between the railways and Canadian grain shippers over the interswitching radius. Interswitching refers to a regulation to ensure shippers located where only a single railway operates can access points that are not served by that railway. The issue is especially concerning for Canadian grain shippers
Alberta ‘crossing fingers’ for rain amid wildfires
CN mainline traffic west of Edmonton suspended
Reuters — Firefighters were counting on rain and cooler weather forecast for Monday to help them quell a dramatic start to Alberta’s wildfire season. The province declared a state of emergency on Saturday in response to wildfires in northern and central regions that have displaced nearly 30,000 people and prompted energy producers to shut in
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