Canada Rail Lockout

Norfolk Southern and BNSF reach tentative agreements with additional labor unions

This story originally aired on Trains.com.

ATLANTA – Norfolk Southern and BNSF Railway have reached tentative five-year contract agreements with additional unions four months before the opening round of national collective bargaining.

The Norfolk Southern agreements with five unions, coming on the heels of four tentative agreements announced last week, cover approximately 55% of the railroad’s unionized workforce.

The most recent agreements announced today, which NS reached in partnership with...

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Canadian Teamsters file 4 separate legal challenges to Appeals Board

Canadian Teamsters have filed four separate challenges on Thursday in the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal challenging the Labor Minister’s order for binding arbitration and the Canada Industrial Relations Board decision to stop the lockout and work stoppage. There are two challenges for each railroad.

This latest legal maneuver comes after the labor union vowed to challenge the ruling.

The CIRB originally ordered the railroads and labor to appear Thursday for a scheduled meeting on the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/canadian-teamsters-file-4-separate-legal-challenges-to-appeals-board

Analysis: Canada rail stoppage post-mortem

The good news: Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City trains are rolling just days after a work stoppage for the first time shut down most of the country’s rail network.

The restart of operations on the two largest railroads came after the Canada Industrial Relations Board on Saturday backed an order by Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon ending the lockout and sending the contract dispute between the railroads and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference to binding arbitration.  

The...

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Canada rail lockout ‘horrific’ for supply chain, carrier trade group head says

Trucking industry and logistics leaders said the lockout by Canada’s two largest railroads on Thursday could produce severe consequences for domestic and cross-border carriers.

The contract dispute between Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and 9,300 employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) is centered around higher pay and improved benefits, as well as provisions for more predictable work scheduling.

The railroads and the TCRC said a lockout

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Railroads, unions trade charges as shutdown begins

Canada’s largest railroads, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Kansas City, early Thursday locked out 9,300 union employees represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC), shutting down the country’s rail network in a move that is expected to disrupt supply chains across North America.  

The lockout of train crews and control personnel at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Thursday had been expected after no progress was reported in contract bargaining with federal mediators that ran late...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/railroads-unions-trade-charges-as-shutdown-begins