Insights and Stories on Teamsters

CN strike drags on, hitting grain exports, fertilizer output

Nov. 25, 2019 at 4:37 pm CST

Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — A prolonged strike at Canadian National Railway, the country’s largest railroad, sent further shocks through the economy on Monday with grain shipments scuttled and layoffs planned at fertilizer producers and an auto shipment terminal. As Canada’s biggest rail strike in a decade entered its seventh day, […]

Union says propane shortfalls may be CN’s own making

Nov. 22, 2019 at 8:45 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Propane-starved East’s grain growers seek end to CN strike

Nov. 20, 2019 at 4:17 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Talks continue toward ending CN strike as factories slow output

Nov. 20, 2019 at 12:48 pm CST

By Allison Lampert Rod Nickel

Elevator operators seek quick end to CN strike

Nov. 19, 2019 at 7:32 pm CST

By Allan Dawson

CN conductors on strike

Nov. 19, 2019 at 7:26 am CST

Unionized conductors, trainpersons and yard workers at Canadian National Railway are on strike as of Tuesday morning. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), whose CTY arm represents about 3,000 unionized CN staff, announced late Monday its members would stop work at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday. “Unfortunately, we were unable to […]

By GFM Staff

Teamsters serve strike notice on CN

Nov. 17, 2019 at 1:36 am CST

Teamster-led workers in contract talks with Canadian National Railway could be on the picket line as early as 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday after serving strike notice on the company. The Teamsters Canadian Rail Conference – Conductors, Trainpersons and Yardpersons (TCRC-CTY), which represents about 3,200 CN conductors and railyard co-ordinators in […]

By GFM Staff

CP conductors, engineers ratify four-year deal

Jul. 30, 2018 at 12:25 am CDT

Conductors and engineers for Canadian Pacific Railway have voted for labour peace following a 33-hour strike in late May. CP’s 3,100-odd conductors and engineers, represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), announced July 20 they have voted to ratify a four-year agreement. Almost 63 per cent of eligible employees […]

By GFM Staff

CP’s signal maintainers ratify three-year deal

Jul. 5, 2018 at 8:17 pm CDT

Signal and communications employees with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) have voted to accept a tentative three-year deal that helped end a 33-hour work stoppage in late May. CP and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council No. 11, which represents 360 CP signal maintainers, announced Friday the union’s […]

By Staff

CP conductors, engineers to get nine per cent raise over four years

Jun. 6, 2018 at 6:31 pm CDT

Montreal | Reuters — Canadian Pacific Railway conductors and locomotive engineers will get a nine per cent salary hike over four years as part of a tentative agreement reached last week with the Teamsters, spokesmen from both the union and CP said on Wednesday. The agreement, which must first be […]

By Allison Lampert

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