TCRC

The federal government’s plan to get Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National Railway (CN Rail) workers back to work could go off the rails. The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), which represents 93-hundred employees of CPKC and CN, issued 72-hour strike notice to Canadian National Railway Friday morning, while members on the CPKC […]

Farm groups continue to urge the railways and the union representing its workers to reach an agreement as soon as possible. This comes after the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) made its ruling known Friday that a potential strike of CPKC and CN Rail workers would not pose a serious danger to the health and […]

With both sides blaming each other, a late Saturday night deadline passed with CP workers taking to the picket line. Representing 3,000 engineers, conductors and other railway workers, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) said a lockout was initiated by management. CP Rail issued a statement that said the TCRC withdrew their services and misrepresented […]