lockout

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has ripped up the supply and confidence deal with the Liberals that helped keep the minority government in power.  In a social media video posted Wednesday afternoon, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he notified Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of the decision.  “Canadians are fighting a battle.  A battle for the future […]

Freight trains must start rolling again first thing Monday morning, the federal labour board ruled Saturday as it ordered thousands of rail employees back to work to end a bitter contract dispute that shut down the country’s two major railways. The decision from the Canada Industrial Relations Board imposes binding arbitration on all involved parties […]

Rail workers pushed back hard Friday against the federal government’s move to get them back on the job, with a new strike notice and a regulatory challenge making it unclear when freight traffic will fully resume. At Canadian National Railway Co., trains began to move again Friday morning as workers started to trickle back to […]

Ottawa is stepping in to get freight trains moving again hours after an unprecedented lockout by the country’s two largest railways brought cross-country freight traffic to a standstill. Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday he will use his Labour Code powers to ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impose final, binding arbitration in the […]

In a first for Canada, freight traffic on its two largest railways has simultaneously ground to a halt, threatening to upend supply chains trying to move forward from pandemic-related disruptions and a port strike last year. In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. […]

An impending labour stoppage on Canada’s two national railways has riled industry groups who worry consumers and businesses will be hit hard if goods ranging from grains to french fries to petrochemicals can’t be moved. Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. have already begun a phased shutdown of their networks as […]

Three organizations representing rural municipalities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba are calling on Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon to use binding arbitration “if the railways and union are unable to reach an agreement prior to Thursday, when labour disruptions would begin.” That’s despite MacKinnon already rejecting CN Rail’s request for binding arbitration and has said […]

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CPKC) and Canadian National Railway Co. (CN Rail) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, union representing about 9,300 workers, are gearing up for a potential work stoppage later this week. Workers at CPKC issued 72-hour strike notice that would see them walk off the job at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time […]

Provincial Highways Minister Lori Carr wrote to the federal government, urging them to use available measures to prevent a work stoppage of CPKC and CN Rail while the railways and union negotiate a new collective agreement. Measures Carr referenced include back-to-work legislation and a directive for binding arbitration that would prohibit the union from job […]

Unless there is some last minute deal, it appears inevitable that pilots with WestJet will be going on strike, or locked out by the employer early Friday Morning. This is going to impact WestJet passengers all across the country. In Regina, there is a key aspect of this that isn’t generally known.  The pilots who […]