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Voting scheduled for CP employees on verge of strike

Engineers, conductors and signal maintainers who’d been poised to walk off the job at Canadian Pacific Railway almost two weeks ago will instead continue business as usual until at least May 26. The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) this week informed CP and two of its employees’ unions — the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC)

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Strike action postponed at CP

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 20, 2018

Conductors, engineers and signal maintainers at Canadian Pacific Railway won’t be walking off the job Saturday, but will instead vote soon on a contract offer their unions recommend they reject. Federal Labour Minister Patty Hajdu on Friday agreed to a request from CP to have the Canadian Industrial Relations Board administer a ratification vote on

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CP talks said stagnating as strike deadline looms

By Allison Lampert, GFM Network News, Julie Gordon April 20, 2018

Montreal/Vancouver | Reuters –– Canada’s biggest rail union said no progress had been made in negotiations on Friday with Canadian Pacific Railway to reach a deal before a Saturday deadline as worries about a potential strike weighed on the country’s crude oil prices. If the two sides fail to reach a deal, a strike is

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Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 18, 2018

Unions representing engineers, conductors and signal maintainers on Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have served formal notice to strike starting Saturday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers and conductors, served strike notice late Tuesday, as did System Council No. 11 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), representing over

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CP conductors, engineers authorize strike

By Allison Lampert, GFM Network News April 6, 2018

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers on Friday voted to authorize a strike action that could have the 3,000 workers walk off the job as early as April 21, Teamsters Canada said in a statement. The workers, whose collective agreement expired late last year, are asking for more predictable schedules

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CN conductors ratify labour deal

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 11, 2017

An 11th-hour labour deal that averted a strike in late May by conductors and yard crews for Canadian National Railway has been ratified. Members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference’s Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons union (TCRC-CTY) have voted in favour of a three-year agreement retroactive to July 23, 2016, CN said Tuesday. The deal “provides

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Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

By Allison Lampert, David Ljunggren, GFM Network News May 29, 2017

Montreal/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian National Railway and a union representing 3,000 conductors on Monday reached an agreement in principle ahead of a looming strike deadline at Canada’s largest railroad, said a top union official. The union had set a strike deadline of Tuesday at 4 a.m. ET after the railroad announced new work rules

New Alberta labour standards for paid farm workers tabled

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 24, 2017

Waged farm workers in Alberta will be allowed to unionize and get new rules governing vacation pay and youth employment, under a provincial labour bill tabled Wednesday. The new rules are tucked into Bill 17, the Fair and Family-friendly Workplaces Act, which went through first reading Wednesday and, if passed, would take effect Jan. 1,

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Postal workers pledge to move bees, chicks if striking

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 15, 2016

Canada Post and its unionized staff have agreed to set up a system in which workers would volunteer to move live animals, such as day-old chicks or bees, during a strike or lockout. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said Tuesday it has a new agreement with the Crown corporation to move and deliver social

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Strike ends at Rogers’ Montreal sugar refinery

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 6, 2016

Workers at Rogers Sugar’s Montreal refinery have voted to ratify a new five-year agreement and will return to work “within the next few hours,” ending their strike, the company said Sunday. The plant, which has about 200 unionized workers, represented by le Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de Sucre Lantic (FC-CSN), will resume “all production

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Voting scheduled for CP employees on verge of strike

Strike action postponed at CP

CP talks said stagnating as strike deadline looms

Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

CP conductors, engineers authorize strike

CN conductors ratify labour deal

Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

New Alberta labour standards for paid farm workers tabled

Postal workers pledge to move bees, chicks if striking

Strike ends at Rogers’ Montreal sugar refinery

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