Insights and Stories on Labour

Arbitration leads to deal for CN signals staff

Oct. 19, 2022 at 2:23 am CDT

Canadian National Railway (CN) has labour peace with its signals and communications workers through to the end of 2024 coming out of binding arbitration. The 750-odd workers, represented by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council 11, had agreed to take their dispute with CN to arbitration in early […]

Changes to TFW program to expand worker availability

Apr. 10, 2022 at 5:17 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Pork industry looks ahead from turbulent 2021

Feb. 4, 2022 at 8:00 pm CST

By Adam Peleshaty

Vaccine mandate to lead to inflation, empty shelves, trucking executives say

Jan. 20, 2022 at 5:41 pm CST

By Steve Scherer

Ontario to extend labour-related crop loss coverage

Jan. 12, 2022 at 2:10 am CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs sag on Wall Street woes, worker shortages

Jan. 10, 2022 at 8:09 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog and live cattle futures closed lower on Monday, pressured by declines on Wall Street along with slowdowns at slaughterhouses due to worker shortages, traders said. CME February live cattle futures settled down 1.075 cents at 136.25 cents/lb., while March feeder cattle […]

By Reuters

Deere says its robo-tractors are ready to till the fields

Jan. 4, 2022 at 3:55 pm CST

Detroit | Reuters — Deere and Co. said Tuesday it will start commercial delivery this year of technology that enables a tractor to till a field without an operator in the cab, a first for the top North American tractor manufacturer after years of effort to automate farm work. Deere […]

By Joseph White

U.S. packer profit margins jumped 300 per cent during pandemic, economists say

Dec. 10, 2021 at 8:04 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started, White House economics advisers said. Financial statements of the meat-processing companies […]

By Andrea Shalal

Deere’s U.S. workers on strike after rejecting deal

Oct. 14, 2021 at 4:45 pm CDT

Reuters — Thousands of Deere and Co. workers began a strike on Thursday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) said, days after overwhelmingly rejecting a six-year labour contract that was agreed on with the tractor maker. Earlier this month, the world’s largest farm equipment maker and the UAW union reached an […]

By Reuters

British milk sours amid labour crisis

Oct. 6, 2021 at 5:03 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Some British dairy farmers have been forced to destroy tens of thousands of litres of milk due to rising costs, labour shortages and an acute deficit of truck drivers which has strained supply chains to breaking point, farmers said. A post-Brexit shortage of workers, exacerbated by […]

By Victor Jack

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