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CP employees to walk the line Tuesday night

May. 27, 2018 at 5:01 pm CDT

Barring any last-minute deals, conductors, engineers and signal maintainers at Canadian Pacific Railway plan to be on strike as of 9 p.m. CT Tuesday. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents about 3,000 CP engineers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), which represents about 360 CP signal […]

CP employees reject company’s ‘final’ offers

May. 25, 2018 at 7:57 pm CDT

By Staff

Strike action postponed at CP

Apr. 20, 2018 at 7:59 pm CDT

By Staff

Two unions set to strike Saturday at CP

Apr. 18, 2018 at 12:53 pm CDT

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Deal reached to avert CN strike, union head says

May. 29, 2017 at 4:47 pm CDT

By Allison Lampert David Ljunggren

CN’s conductors serve strike notice

May. 29, 2017 at 1:10 pm CDT

The unit of the Teamsters representing Canadian National Railway’s (CN) conductors and yard operations staff has served notice that its members may be walking the line come Tuesday morning. Montreal-based CN said Saturday it had received 72-hour strike notice from the conductors’ unit of the Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference (TCRC), […]

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CP, Teamsters dispute railway’s staffing obligations

Jul. 5, 2016 at 7:03 pm CDT

Canadian Pacific Railway is refuting claims from one of its employees’ unions that the company is in “violation of the law” over layoffs of track maintenance staff. Calgary-based CP last month announced temporary layoffs effective June 30 affecting about 500 maintenance-of-way crew positions. On Tuesday it cited “business ebbs and […]

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Arbitrator named for CP talks with running trades

Apr. 25, 2015 at 9:42 am CDT

The federal government has named its arbitrator to settle a new contract between Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen. Labour Minister Kellie Leitch on Monday appointed lawyer and professional mediator George Adams as the arbitrator and mediator for talks between CP and its 3,800 unionized […]

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CP engineers, conductors halt strike

Feb. 16, 2015 at 3:33 pm CST

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and its unionized conductors, engineers, trainmen and yardmen agreed Monday to binding arbitration in their contract talks, ending a strike the day after it began. The end of the strike, which began Sunday just after midnight, comes under the threat of federal back-to-work legislation, which was […]

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Railway back-to-work legislation going to Commons

Feb. 16, 2015 at 1:49 am CST

Back-to-work legislation to halt a day-old strike by engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is scheduled for introduction Monday in the House of Commons. Federal Labour Minister Kellie Leitch is booked on the Commons’ order paper for Monday to introduce “An Act to provide for the continuation and […]

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