CN Strike Ends Before Parliament Can Act

With Parliament posed to order an end to a five-day-old strike, CN and its 1,700 locomotive engineers quickly reached a settlement Dec. 2. Labour Minister Rona Ambrose said back-to-work legislation, that was to have been passed through all stages in the Commons that day, was enough to get the two sides to work out a

Bill To End Engineers’ Strike

Locomotive engineers at Canadian Nat ional Railway (CN) who have been on strike since Saturday may soon be ordered back to work if the federal government gets backing for legislation to do so. Federal Labour Minister Rona Ambrose said in a release Monday she would introduce a bill that afternoon to end the strike, but


UFCW Union At Portage Farm Decertified

Canada’s first-ever union for seasonal agricultural workers has disbanded only two years after it was formed. The Manitoba Labour Board has approved an application by Mexican field labourers at Mayfair Farm in Portage la Prairie to have their union decertified. In a July 9 ruling, the board revoked Local 832 of the United Food and