Insights and Stories on Lockout

CP service to resume as dispute goes to arbitration

Mar. 22, 2022 at 9:54 am CDT

Engineers, conductors and train and yard service staff at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) will return to work by noon local time Tuesday as their labour dispute goes to arbitration. Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan, attending labour talks between CP and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) in Calgary, announced Tuesday […]

Ag industry groups seek legislated end to CP stoppage

Mar. 21, 2022 at 8:23 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

CP engineers, conductors locked out; talks continue

Mar. 20, 2022 at 12:52 am CDT

By Dave Bedard

Feed weekly outlook: Sector bracing for logistics challenge

Mar. 17, 2022 at 7:13 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

CP to lock out engineers, conductors starting Sunday

Mar. 16, 2022 at 8:16 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Canadian and U.S. shippers brace for possible CP strike

Mar. 15, 2022 at 12:06 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Thousands of workers at Canada’s second-biggest railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, have threatened to strike this week, potentially disrupting the movement of grain, potash and coal at a time of soaring commodity prices. The strike is the latest risk to Canada’s battered supply chain, which last year […]

By Rod Nickel

Strike averted at Cargill’s High River beef plant

Dec. 5, 2021 at 12:05 am CST

Workers at Cargill’s beef packing plant in southern Alberta have voted in favour of a contract that will hike wages by 21 per cent and provide improved health benefits. “The contract is the best of its kind and presented unprecedented gains in this time of economic and political uncertainty,” United […]

By Glenn Cheater

Cargill beef plant workers to vote on new negotiated offer

Dec. 1, 2021 at 4:59 pm CST

Workers at Cargill’s major beef slaughter and packing plant in Alberta will vote this week on a new offer which it’s hoped will avert a strike or lockout, both due to start Monday. The new offer follows a “marathon” of negotiations Tuesday between Cargill representatives and the bargaining committee for […]

By Dave Bedard

Montreal longshoremen to strike on weekends

Apr. 12, 2021 at 9:42 pm CDT

Exporters of Canadian crops and other goods have amped up calls for federal intervention after longshore workers at the Port of Montreal declared a “partial” strike affecting weekend and overtime work. The Syndicat des debardeurs du port de Montreal (SCFP/CUPE Local 375) said Saturday they had filed 72 hours’ strike […]

By Dave Bedard

Co-op Refinery, union reach tentative labour deal

Jun. 18, 2020 at 3:26 pm CDT

The operators of one of Western Canada’s biggest fuel refineries have reached a tentative deal with the union representing workers locked out since December. The deal, if ratified in an employee vote, would end the lockout at Federated Co-operatives’ (FCL) Co-op Refinery Complex (CRC), a major bulk fuel supplier to […]

By Dave Bedard

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