Canadian National Railway Co. says it has gone the extra mile to meet union demands amid a strike by signal and electrical workers, who say the concessions do not go far enough. About 750 CN employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job across the country Saturday morning. In an […]
The Canadian Football League’s players are on strike for the first time in nearly 50 years. The league and the players association are in a labour dispute stemming from the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement Saturday at 10 p.m. Saskatchewan time. Talks broke down Saturday as the deadline approached. CFL training camps were to […]
Unifor is hoping to get back to the bargaining table Thursday morning. On Wednesday, the Unifor National President Jerry Dias held a press conference at Hotel Saskatchewan to say the union would remove the blockades at multiple gates at the Co-op Refinery in an effort to get back to the table. Dias also asked Premier […]
A group of around two dozen women from Unifor Local 594 and Unifor National made the trip from the picket line at the Co-op Refinery in Regina to downtown Saskatoon Thursday afternoon. The group set up a small picket line in front of the Alt Hotel on 2nd Avenue where Co-op CEO Scott Banda was […]
Locked out Unifor Local 594 members from the Co-op Refinery travelled to Saskatoon Wednesday to picket in front of Federated Cooperatives Ltd headquarters downtown for the afternoon. About 30 of the 720 union members made the trip, with Unifor members from other locals supporting them. Local president, Kevin Bittman, says they have received support during […]
Co-op refinery workers continue to walk the picket lines a month after they voted for job action and Federated Co-op locked them out of the facility. It has been a long few weeks, but employees such as Kevin Wenaus, who works in instrumentation at the refinery, are taking the experience positively. He said they want […]
One independent trucking firm in Regina is calling for both sides in the dispute involving workers at the Co-Op refinery to get back to the bargaining table so that his drivers can do what they are supposed to and not have to spend their day in a long line. Mike Schick runs K&M Trucking. He […]
A senior CN Rail official says it will be two to three weeks before grain shipments are caught up from the 8-day strike, which ended on Tuesday. CN executive vice president Sean Finn says grain shipments are returning to normal after being cut by 90 per-cent on CN during the strike. Finn says CN Rail […]
Melville’s Mayor is happy there’s a tentative agreement ending the strike by 3,200 CN workers. Ironically, Walter Streelasky says he heard about the resolution yesterday in Regina at an event celebrating C.N’s 100th anniversary. “And so there we sat with our group, advisory committee on CN safety, and the news came forward that a settlement was reached […]
Nutrien still plans to close the Rocanville potash mine for two weeks, despite the CN Rail strike coming to an end. Nutrien announced the two week layoffs on Monday, blaming the strike for slowing the ability to transport product. Spokesperson Will Tigley says the end of the strike is great news for farmers and the […]
